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IDProjectCategoryView StatusLast Update
0007854mantisbtfilterspublic2008-06-06 17:52
Reporteratomoid Assigned To 
PrioritynormalSeveritymajorReproducibilityalways
Status closedResolutionduplicate 
Product Version1.0.6 
Summary0007854: Need advanced text search options
Description

A main problem with Mantis is the inability to usefully narrow your search by keyword. The text search is too literal since users will never all use the exact same term or phrase to describe something, leading either to too few or way too many hits based on all the possible search field inputs.

I don't see this ubiquitous problem mentioned in the 1.1 or even the 2.0 roadmaps.

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Searching for specific bugs (in order to avoid writing duplicates) is currently a major drawback in Mantis. Mantis can search only by contiguous phrase.

If you want to find only the bugs that have the word "red" in them, you'll also get all sorts of unwanted hits for words that happen to include that sequence of characters like "occurred", "redrawing", "stored" "rendered", "textured", "covered", "redo", "entered", etc.

  • search by multiple distinct keywords would get around this and other problems.
  • subprojects should be optionally filtered out or included.
  • selectable boolean operators in both the search field as well as each of the filed selectors so you can find, for instance, bugs that are NOT in build 1.0.1

Boolean options would return results per the following:

  • with all of the words
  • with the exact string (this is what Mantis does)
  • with at least one of the words
  • without any of the words
  • exact case (on/off)

Some advanced search pages:
http://bugs.mysql.com/search.php (using the 'Boolean Mode' checkbox)
http://landfill.bugzilla.org/bugzilla-2.22-branch/query.cgi?format=advanced

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duplicate of 0004843 closedjreese feature request: improving fulltext search 

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djcarr

djcarr

2007-05-01 01:00

reporter   ~0014408

This is a duplicate of 0004843