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Bug 338459

Summary:	Provide a list of recently used products and components when creating a new bug
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	Sam Davis <sam.davis>
Component:	Mylyn	Assignee:	Project Inbox <mylyn-triaged>
Status:	CLOSED MOVED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	shawn.minto, steffen.pingel
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:

Description Sam Davis

2011-02-28 15:04:09 EST

As an example, Eclipse has dozens of products, each with several components, but I only ever use a handful of them. It would be nice if my most commonly used product+component combinations were available somewhere and I could select them with a single click. This would be most useful when creating new bugs but could also be useful when moving existing bugs.

One way to do it would be a submenu in the new tasks drop down. Another idea would be to have some sort of affordance in the task editor that would fill in both fields.

Comment 1 Steffen Pingel

2011-04-03 19:57:23 EDT

I like the idea of having a list of frequently used products and components. We could show them as the first couple items in the list and separate them from other items by --- similar to how the task-focused UI does that for content assist. 

A template mechanism for tasks could also work: Task skeletons would be saved to a list and new tasks could then be created with all field pre-populated with a single click.

Comment 2 Steffen Pingel

2011-05-06 12:54:33 EDT

*** Bug 344748 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Sam Davis

2011-05-06 13:06:36 EDT

(In reply to comment #2)
> *** Bug 344748 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(from tha bug)
> The sorting in the task editor should follow the web UI (bug 236747). I do see
> you point though and we should consider improvements for frequently selected
> items. Let's collect these suggestions on bug 338459.

The trouble is, they won't be frequently selected at first - they will never have been selected before. The most frequently selected will be the ones that were in use for the longest. So if we had some mechanism for selecting frequently used options, we'd have to make it consider new ones as frequently used, at least for target milestone and version.

Comment 4 Eclipse Webmaster

2022-11-15 11:45:08 EST

Mylyn has been restructured, and our issue tracking has moved to GitHub [1].

We are closing ~14K Bugzilla issues to give the new team a fresh start. If you feel that this issue is still relevant, please create a new one on GitHub.

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