Boolean Chart Redesign

[Gregary Hendricks]

On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 10:00 +1000, Bernd Groh wrote:
> To me, that would make the query less confusing. That would make it a lot easier to construct queries. And how would I like the UI to look? Well, it would have two parts. One part most people are familiar with, buttons, operators, and text fields to construct the query, and a big massive text box that gets filled as you construct the query. And if you don't really like to use all these buttons, fields and text boxes, then you can just write the query straight into the text box, and that's that.
> 

I would second this. There are a number of applications I use that have
an "advanced query builder" where there is basically a text box and a
drag and drop type interface that "types" the query as you build it.
This lets advanced users type it out themselves if they like. 

One option to getting around the "GET to long" issues is to POST and
then store the saved query with a hash id and then users can simply
share this short hashed URL instead of the huge one with all the
parameters. Testopia does something similar with regular queries so that
it doesn't run into the "This list is too big for bugzilla's little
mind" problem. Sure it means there is at least one saved query per user,
but it also means users can have their last search results show up on
any computer they log in from.

I echo the gratitude to Max for taking the time to tackle this issue.
Keep it up.

++Greg