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authorgerv%gerv.net <>2004-03-22 09:25:48 +0100
committergerv%gerv.net <>2004-03-22 09:25:48 +0100
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Bug 233246 - improve documentation on enter_bug comment formatting templates.
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<para>
<command>bug/create/create.html.tmpl</command> and
<command>bug/create/comment.txt.tmpl</command>:
- You may wish to get bug submitters to give certain bits of structured
- information, each in a separate input widget, for which there is not a
- field in the database. The bug entry system has been designed in an
- extensible fashion to enable you to define arbitrary fields and widgets,
- and have their values appear formatted in the initial
- Description, rather than in database fields. An example of this
- is the mozilla.org
- <ulink url="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?format=guided">guided
- bug submission form</ulink>.
+ You may not wish to go to the effort of creating custom fields in
+ Bugzilla, yet you want to make sure that each bug report contains
+ a number of pieces of important information for which there is not
+ a special field. The bug entry system has been designed in an
+ extensible fashion to enable you to add arbitrary HTML widgets,
+ such as drop-down lists or textboxes, to the bug entry page
+ and have their values appear formatted in the initial comment.
</para>
+
+ <para>
+ An example of this is the mozilla.org
+ <ulink url="http://landfill.bugzilla.org/bugzilla-tip/enter_bug.cgi?product=WorldControl&amp;format=guided">guided
+ bug submission form</ulink>. The code for this comes with the Bugzilla
+ distribution as an example for you to copy. It can be found in the
+ files
+ <filename>create-guided.html.tmpl</filename> and
+ <filename>comment-guided.html.tmpl</filename>.
+ </para>
<para>
- To make this work, create a custom template for
- <filename>enter_bug.cgi</filename> (the default template, on which you
- could base it, is <filename>create.html.tmpl</filename>),
- and either call it <filename>create.html.tmpl</filename> or use a format and
- call it <filename>create-&lt;formatname&gt;.html.tmpl</filename>.
- Put it in the <filename class="directory">custom/bug/create</filename>
- directory. In it, add widgets for each piece of information you'd like
+ So to use this feature, create a custom template for
+ <filename>enter_bug.cgi</filename>. The default template, on which you
+ could base it, is
+ <filename>custom/bug/create/create.html.tmpl</filename>.
+ Call it <filename>create-&lt;formatname&gt;.html.tmpl</filename>, and
+ in it, add widgets for each piece of information you'd like
collected - such as a build number, or set of steps to reproduce.
</para>
<para>
Then, create a template like
- <filename>custom/bug/create/comment.txt.tmpl</filename>, also named
- after your format if you are using one, which
- references the form fields you have created. When a bug report is
+ <filename>custom/bug/create/comment.txt.tmpl</filename>, and call it
+ <filename>comment-&lt;formatname&gt;.txt.tmpl</filename>. This
+ template should reference the form fields you have created using
+ the syntax <filename>[% form.&lt;fieldname&gt; %]</filename>. When a
+ bug report is
submitted, the initial comment attached to the bug report will be
formatted according to the layout of this template.
</para>
<para>
- For example, if your enter_bug template had a field
+ For example, if your custom enter_bug template had a field
<programlisting>&lt;input type="text" name="buildid" size="30"&gt;</programlisting>
and then your comment.txt.tmpl had
<programlisting>BuildID: [% form.buildid %]</programlisting>
- then
+ then something like
<programlisting>BuildID: 20020303</programlisting>
- would appear in the initial checkin comment.
- </para>
+ would appear in the initial comment.
+ </para>
</section>