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authorbugreport%peshkin.net <>2005-02-19 12:01:53 +0100
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Bug 281185: Add boolean charts docs
r=colin,a=justdave
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<para>Once you've run a search, you can save it as a Saved Search, which
appears in the page footer.</para>
- <para>Highly advanced querying is done using Boolean Charts. See the
- Boolean Charts help link on the Search page for more information.</para>
+ <section id="boolean">
+ <title>Boolean Charts</title>
+ <para>
+ Highly advanced querying is done using Boolean Charts.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The boolean charts further restrict the set of results
+ returned by a query. It is possible to search for bugs
+ based on elaborate combinations of critera.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The simplest boolean searches have only one term. These searches
+ permit the selected left <emphasis>field</emphasis>
+ to be compared using a
+ selectable <emphasis>operator</emphasis> to a
+ specified <emphasis>value.</emphasis>
+ Using the "And," "Or," and "Add Another Boolean Chart" buttons,
+ additonal terms can be included in the query, further
+ altering the list of bugs returned by the query.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ There are three fields in each row of a boolean search.
+ </para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>Field:</emphasis>
+ the items being searched
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>Operator:</emphasis>
+ the comparison operator
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>Value:</emphasis>
+ the value to which the field is being compared
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ <section id="pronouns">
+ <title>Pronoun Substitution</title>
+ <para>
+ Sometimes, a query needs to compare a field containing
+ a user's ID (such as ReportedBy) with
+ a user's ID (such as the user running the query or the user
+ to whom each bug is assigned). When the operator is either
+ "equals" or "notequals", the value can be "%reporter%",
+ "%assignee%", "%qacontact%", or "%user%." The user pronoun
+ referes to the user who is executing the query or, in the case
+ of whining reports, the user who will be the recipient
+ of the report. The reporter, assignee, and qacontact
+ pronouns refer to the corresponding fields in the bug.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+ <section id="negation">
+ <title>Negation</title>
+ <para>
+ At first glance, negation seems redundant. Rather than
+ searching for
+ <blockquote>
+ <para>
+ NOT("summary" "contains the string" "foo"),
+ </para>
+ </blockquote>
+ one could search for
+ <blockquote>
+ <para>
+ ("summary" "does not contain the string" "foo").
+ </para>
+ </blockquote>
+ However, the search
+ <blockquote>
+ <para>
+ ("CC" "does not contain the string" "@mozilla.org")
+ </para>
+ </blockquote>
+ would find every bug where anyone on the CC list did not contain
+ "@mozilla.org" while
+ <blockquote>
+ <para>
+ NOT("CC" "contains the string" "@mozilla.org")
+ </para>
+ </blockquote>
+ would find every bug where there was nobody on the CC list who
+ did contain the string. Similarly, the use of negation also permits
+ complex expressions to be built using terms OR'd together and then
+ negated. Negation permits queries such as
+ <blockquote>
+ <para>
+ NOT(("product" "equals" "update") OR
+ ("component" "equals" "Documentation"))
+ </para>
+ </blockquote>
+ to find bugs that are neither
+ in the update product or in the documentation component or
+ <blockquote>
+ <para>
+ NOT(("commenter" "equals" "%assignee%") OR
+ ("component" "equals" "Documentation"))
+ </para>
+ </blockquote>
+ to find non-documentation
+ bugs on which the assignee has never commented.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+ <section id="multiplecharts">
+ <title>Multiple Charts</title>
+ <para>
+ The terms within a single row of a boolean chart are all
+ constraints on a single piece of data. If you are looking for
+ a bug that has two different people cc'd on it, then you need
+ to use two boolean charts. A search for
+ <blockquote>
+ <para>
+ ("cc" "contains the string" "foo@") AND
+ ("cc" "contains the string" "@mozilla.org")
+ </para>
+ </blockquote>
+ would return only bugs with "foo@mozilla.org" on the cc list.
+ If you wanted bugs where there is someone on the cc list
+ containing "foo@" and someone else containing "@mozilla.org",
+ then you would need two boolean charts.
+ <blockquote>
+ <para>
+ First chart: ("cc" "contains the string" "foo@")
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Second chart: ("cc" "contains the string" "@mozilla.org")
+ </para>
+ </blockquote>
+ The bugs listed will be only the bugs where ALL the charts are true.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+ </section>
</section>
<section id="list">