Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 154155
Need a way to search for empty BugsDependingOnThisBug fields
Last modified: 2013-06-23 23:00:00 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040805 Netscape/7.2 Description of problem: We are using tracking/blocker bugs for our product. However, we think some of the bugs may not have been created or modified to block our blocker/tracking bug. There is currently no way to search for these bugs that I can find. The boolean charts work correctly for bugs that have the BugsDependingOnThisBug filled in with some value, but not for bugs that have that field empty. Can we have an "is empty" boolean chart added that would look for BugsDependingOnThisBug == nil or something like that? Another alternative that would help us would be to have some way to Change Columns to have the BugsDependingOnThisBug column listed. Then we could at least visually scan the list to see if there are any empty ones. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Try to do a search to list bugs that have an empty BugsDependingOnThisBug field. 2. 3. Actual Results: Zarro Boogs. Expected Results: A list of bugs which do not block other bugs. Additional info: The severity is High because we are approaching a release date and must know if all of our bugs have been tracked. If this isn't fixed, we have no choice but to go through all of the bugs by hand, a daunting and error prone task.
Hello - anyone there? This bug has been open for about 2 1/2 years. If it is simply not possible to do this, and there are no plans to support this, can we just file this bug as WONTFIX and be done with it?
Sorry for the long delay. It fell off our radars unfortunately. You can choose from the boolean charts section on the Advanced Query page "is null" or "is not null" in the middle drop down. This should give you the query you are looking for. Also you can now see the BlockedBy and DependsOn values in the bug query results by clicking on "Change Columns" at the bottom of the list. You can then select the two extra columns and resubmit your last query. Please reopen this if you have any difficulties. Dave