Quicksearch is a new, experimental feature of the 2.12 release. - It consist of two Javascript files, "quicksearch.js" and "localconfig.js", - and two documentation files, "quicksearch.html" and "quicksearchhack.html" -
The index.html page has been updated to include the QuickSearch text box. -
To take full advantage of the query power, the Bugzilla maintainer must - edit "localconfig.js" according to the value sets used in the local installation. -
Currently, keywords must be hard-coded in localconfig.js. If they are not, - keywords are not automatically recognized. This means, if localconfig.js - is left unconfigured, that searching for a bug with the "foo" keyword - will only find bugs with "foo" in the summary, status whiteboard, product or - component name, but not those with the keyword "foo". -
Workarounds for Bugzilla users: -
| search for '!foo' (this will find only bugs with the keyword "foo" |
| search 'foo,!foo' (equivalent to 'foo OR keyword:foo') |
When this tool is ported from client-side JavaScript to server-side Perl, - the requirement for hard-coding keywords can be fixed. - This bug - has details. -