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>What's in it for me?</TITLE
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TITLE="How do I use Bugzilla?"
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>The Bugzilla Guide</TH
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>Chapter 4. Using Bugzilla</TD
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NAME="INIT4ME"
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>4.4. What's in it for me?</A
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>Indiana, it feels like we walking on fortune cookies!</I
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>These ain't fortune cookies, kid...</I
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> Customized User Preferences offer tremendous versatility to
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your individual Bugzilla experience.
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Let's plunge into what you can do! The first step is to click
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the "Edit prefs" link at the footer of each page once you
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have logged in to
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HREF="http://landfill.tequilarista.org/mozilla/bugzilla/query.cgi?GoAheadAndLogIn=1"
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TARGET="_top"
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> Landfill</A
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NAME="ACCOUNTSETTINGS"
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>4.4.1. Account Settings</A
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> On this page, you can change your basic Account Settings,
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including your password and full name.
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For security reasons, in order to change anything on this page you
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must type your <EM
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>current</EM
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password into the "Old Password" field.
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If you wish to change your password, type the new password you
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want into the "New Password" field and again into the "Re-enter
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new password" field to ensure
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you typed your new password correctly. Select the "Submit" button and you're done!
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>4.4.2. Email Settings</A
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NAME="NOTIFICATION"
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>4.4.2.1. Email Notification</A
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> Ahh, here you can reduce or increase the amount of email sent you from Bugzilla!
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In the drop-down "Notify me of changes to", select one of
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><EM
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>All qualifying bugs</EM
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>: sends you every change to every bug
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where your name is somewhere on it, regardless of who changed it.</TD
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><EM
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>Only those bugs which I am listed in the CC line</EM
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you from receiving mail for which you are the reporter,'
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owner, or QA contact. If you are on the CC
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list, presumably someone had a <EM
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>good</EM
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reason for you to get the email.</TD
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>All qulifying bugs except those which I change</EM
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This is the default, and
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a sensible setting. If someone else changes your bugs, you will get emailed,
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but if you change bugs
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yourself you will receive no notification of the change.</TD
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>4.4.2.2. New Email Technology</A
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CLASS="NOTE"
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><BLOCKQUOTE
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>Note: </B
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> This option may not be available in all Bugzilla installations, depending upon
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the preferences of the systems administrator responsible for the setup of your Bugzilla.
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However, if you really want this functionality, ask her to "enable newemailtech
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in Params"
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and "make it the default for all new users", referring her to the Administration section
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of this Guide.
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> Disregard the warnings about "experimental and bleeding edge"; the code to handle email
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in a cleaner manner than that historically used for Bugzilla is
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quite robust and well-tested now.
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> I recommend you enable the option, "Click here to sign up (and risk any bugs)".
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Your email-box
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will thank you for it. The fundamental shift in "newemailtech" is away from standard UNIX
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"diff" output, which is quite ugly, to a prettier, better laid-out email.
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>4.4.2.3. "Watching" Users</A
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><BLOCKQUOTE
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><B
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>Note: </B
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> This option may not be available in all Bugzilla installations, depending upon
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the preferences of the systems administrator responsible for the setup of your Bugzilla.
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However, if you really want this functionality, ask her to "enable watchers in Params".
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</P
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></BLOCKQUOTE
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> By entering user email names into the "Users to watch" text entry box, delineated by commas,
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you can watch bugs of other users. This powerful functionality enables seamless transitions
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as developers change projects, managers wish to get in touch with the issues faced by their
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direct reports, or users go on vacation. If any of these three situations apply
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to you, you will undoubtedly find this feature quite convenient.
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</P
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>4.4.3. Page Footer</A
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>Note: </B
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> By default, this page is quite barren. However, go explore the Query Page some more; you will
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find that you can store numerous queries on the server, so if you regularly run a particular query
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it is just a drop-down menu away. On this page of Preferences, if you have many stored
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queries you can elect to have them always one-click away!
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</P
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> If you have many stored queries on the server, here you will find individual drop-downs for each
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stored query. Each drop-down gives you the option of that query appearing on the footer of every
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page in Bugzilla! This gives you powerful one-click access to any complex searches you may set up,
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and is an excellent way to impress your boss...
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>Tip: </B
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>By default, the "My Bugs" link appears at the bottom of each page. However, this query
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gives you both the bugs you have reported, as well as those you are assigned. One of the most
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common uses for this page is to remove the "My Bugs" link, replacing it with two other queries,
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commonly called "My Bug Reports" and "My Bugs" (but only referencing bugs assigned to you). This
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allows you to distinguish those bugs you have reported from those you are assigned. I commonly
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set up complex Boolean queries in the Query page and link them to my footer in this page. When
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they are significantly complex, a one-click reference can save hours of work.</P
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>4.4.4. Permissions</A
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> This is a purely informative page which outlines your current permissions on
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this installation of Bugzilla. If you have permissions to grant certain permissions to
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other users, the "other users" link appears on this page as well as the footer.
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For more information regarding user administration, please consult the Administration
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section of this Guide.
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