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id="mainContent"> <h1>Features</h1> <h2>For Users</h2> <ul> <li><a href="#searchpage">Advanced Search Capabilities</a></li> <li><a href="#email">Email Notifications Controlled By User Preferences</a></li> <li><a href="#buglist-formats">Bug Lists in Multiple Formats (Atom, iCal, etc.)</a></li> <li><a href="#whining">Scheduled Reports (Daily, Weekly, Hourly, etc.) by Email</a></li> <li><a href="#reporting">Reports and Charts</a></li> <li><a href="#email-in">File/Modify Bugs By Email</a></li> <li><a href="#time-tracking">Time Tracking</a></li> <li><a href="#rs">Request System</a></li> <li><a href="#private">Private Attachments and Comments</a></li> <li><a href="#nick-complete">Automatic Username Completion or Drop-Down User Lists</a></li> <li><a href="#patchviewer">Patch Viewer</a></li> <li><a href="#watching">"Watch" Other Users</a></li> <li><a href="#moving">Move Bugs Between Installs</a></li> <li><a href="#saved-searches">Save and Share Searches</a></li> </ul> <h2>For Administrators</h2> <ul> <li><a href="#security">Excellent Security</a></li> <li><a href="#customizable">Highly Customizable</a></li> <li><a href="#custom-fields">Custom Fields</a></li> <li><a href="#unicode">Full Unicode Support</a></li> <li><a href="#localization">Localization</a></li> <li><a href="#mod_perl">mod_perl Support for Excellent Performance</a></li> <li><a href="#webservices">Webservices (XML-RPC) Interface</a></li> <li><a href="#groups">Control Bug Visibility/Editing with Groups</a></li> <li><a href="#sudo">Impersonate Users</a></li> <li><a href="#auth">Multiple Authentication Methods</a></li> <li><a href="#dbs">Support for Multiple Database Engines</a></li> <li><a href="#sanity">Sanity Check</a></li> </ul> <h2>For Users</h2> <a name="searchpage"></a> <h3>Advanced Search Capabilities</h3> <p>Bugzilla offers two forms of search:</p> <ul> <li>A basic Google-like bug search that is simple for new users and searches the full text of a bug.</li> <li>A very advanced search system where you can create any search you want, including time-based searches (such as "show me bugs where the priority has changed in the last 3 days") and other very-specific queries.</li> </ul> <a name="email"></a> <h3>Email Notifications Controlled By User Preferences</h3> <p>You can get an email about any change made in Bugzilla, and which notifications you get on which bugs is fully controlled by your personal user preferences.</p> <a name="buglist-formats"></a> <h3>Bug Lists in Multiple Formats (Atom, iCal, etc.)</h3> <p>When you search for bugs, you can get the results in many different formats than just the basic HTML layout. Bug lists are available in Atom, if you want to subscribe to a search like it was a feed. They're also available in iCalendar format, so if you're using the time-tracking features of Bugzilla you can see where your bugs fit into your calendar!</p> <p>There are even more formats available, such as a long, printable report format that contains all the details of every bug, a CSV format for importing into spreadsheets, and various XML formats.</p> <a name="whining"></a> <h3>Scheduled Reports (Daily, Weekly, Hourly, etc.) by Email</h3> <p>Bugzilla has a system that will send you, another user, or a group that you specify the results of a particular search on a schedule that you specify! It can be at any time of day, and it can happen as often as every fifteen minutes.</p> <p>Access to this system is controlled by Bugzilla's groups system, so you can limit who has access to it, and separately, who is able to send reports to users other than themselves.</p> <a name="reporting"></a> <h3>Reports and Charts</h3> <p>Bugzilla has a very advanced reporting systems. If you want to know how your bug database looks right now, you can create a table using any two fields as the X and Y axis, and using any search criteria to limit the bugs you want information on.</p> <p>For example, you could pick Product as the X axis, and Status as the Y axis, and then you would see <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071208074031/http://landfill.bugzilla.org/bugzilla-tip/report.cgi?x_axis_field=product&y_axis_field=bug_status&z_axis_field=&query_format=report-table&format=table&action=wrap">a report of how many bugs were in each Status, in each Product</a>.</p> <p>You can also view that same table as a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071208074031/http://landfill.bugzilla.org/bugzilla-tip/report.cgi?x_axis_field=product&y_axis_field=bug_status&z_axis_field=&width=600&height=350&action=wrap&format=line">line graph</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071208074031/http://landfill.bugzilla.org/bugzilla-tip/report.cgi?x_axis_field=product&y_axis_field=bug_status&z_axis_field=&width=600&height=350&action=wrap&format=bar">bar graph</a>, or <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071208074031/http://landfill.bugzilla.org/bugzilla-tip/report.cgi?z_axis_field=product&format=pie&x_axis_field=bug_status&query_format=report-graph&action=wrap">pie chart</a>.</p> <p>You can also specify a "Z axis" to generate multiple tables or graphs.</p> <p>You can even export these reports as CSV so that you can work with them in a spreadsheet.</p> <p>Finally, to see how your Bugzilla installation has changed over time, Bugzilla also supports a charting system, which can create <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071208074031/http://landfill.bugzilla.org/bugzilla-tip/reports.cgi?product=FoodReplicator&datasets=NEW%3A&datasets=RESOLVED%3A">graphs that track changes in the system over time</a>.</p> <a name="email-in"></a> <h3>File/Modify Bugs By Email</h3> <p>In addition to the web interface, you can send Bugzilla an email that will create a new bug, or will modify an existing bug.</p> <a name="time-tracking"></a> <h3>Time Tracking</h3> <p>You can estimate how many hours a bug will take to fix, and then keep track of the hours you spend working on it. You can also set a deadline that a bug must be complete by.</p> <p>For installations that don't need time-tracking, you can turn off these fields. You can also control who is able to see them. (Just modify the <kbd>timetrackinggroup</kbd> parameter!)</p> <a name="rs"></a> <h3>Request System</h3> <p>The Request System is a method of asking other users to do something with a particular bug or attachment. That other user can then grant (say "yes" to) your request, or deny (say "no" to) your request, and Bugzilla keeps track of their answer. You can use it for various purposes; whether you need to ask for code review, request information from a specific user, or get a sign-off from a manager, the system is extremely flexible and can do what you need.</p> <a name="private"></a> <h3>Private Attachments and Comments</h3> <p>If you are in the "insider group," you can mark certain attachments and comments as private, and then they will be invisible to users who are not in the insider group.</p> <p>Users will know that a comment was hidden (because the comment numbering will look something like "1, 2, 3, 5" to them), but they will not be able to access its contents.</p> <a name="nick-complete"></a> <h3>Automatic Username Completion or Drop-Down User Lists</h3> <p>For small Bugzilla installations, Bugzilla supports showing all users in a drop-down list to select from, when reassigning bugs to another user, adding a user to the CC list, or many other areas.</p> <p>Administrators can control who appears in these drop-down lists for each user with "user visibility" controls, to prevent certain users from knowing about the existence of other users.</p> <p>For larger installations, Bugzilla supports entering only part of a username in the assignee, CC, or other fields. Then, if what you entered matches more than one user in Bugzilla, it will display a list for you to choose from after you save your changes to the bug.</p> <a name="patchviewer"></a> <h3>Patch Viewer</h3> <p>Patch Viewer gives you a nice, colorful view of any patch attached to a bug. It also integrates with LXR, CVS, and Bonsai to provide you even more information about a patch.</p> <p>In particular, it makes code review much easier.</p> <a name="watching"></a> <h3>"Watch" Other Users</h3> <p>In Bugzilla, you can say that you want to "watch" another user. Then, you will get every email that users gets from Bugzilla, as though that user was you. This is particularly useful when one developer goes on vacation and another needs to handle that developer's bugs while the other developer is on vacation.</p> <p>This doesn't allow you to bypass security--if you don't have access to a bug, you won't get notifications about it, no matter what.</p> <a name="moving"></a> <h3>Move Bugs Between Installations</h3> <p>Bugzilla supports the ability to move a bug from one Bugzilla installation to another. This even works across versions--you can move a bug from a Bugzilla 2.16 installation to a Bugzilla 3.0 installation without having to do any manual work.</p> <a name="saved-searches"></a> <h3>Save and Share Searches</h3> <p>Once you have performed a search, you can "save" it so that it appears in the footer of every page and all you have to do to run it again is click the link.</p> <p>Once you have saved a search, if you have the right permissions you can also share that search with any group that you belong to in Bugzilla. Then they will have the option of displaying your search in their footer along with their searches!</p> <h2>For Administrators</h2> <a name="security"></a> <h3>Excellent Security</h3> <p>The Bugzilla Project takes security seriously. Bugzilla runs under Perl's "taint" mode to prevent SQL Injection, and has a very careful system in place to prevent Cross-Site Scripting. Bugzilla's history of patching security vulnerabilities is excellent, and the system is designed at every stage with security in mind.</p> <p>Bugzilla is also very careful about information leaks--if you use Bugzilla's group system to hide something, it is <em>absolutely hidden</em>. Nobody will be able to get any information about it whatsoever.</p> <a name="customizable"></a> <h3>Highly Customizable</h3> <p>All of Bugzilla's User Interface, and every email that Bugzilla sends is generated from "templates", files that contain mostly just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. You don't have to know Perl to customize Bugzilla, you just have to edit the templates!</p> <a name="custom-fields"></a> <h3>Custom Fields</h3> <p>Bugzilla supports adding custom fields to your bug database, to capture and search data that is unique to your organization!</p> <a name="unicode"></a> <h3>Full Unicode Support</h3> <p>All of Bugzilla fully supports Unicode, including multi-byte languages such as Japanese and Chinese. You can enter data into Bugzilla in Unicode, and you can search and sort all data correctly in Unicode.</p> <a name="localization"></a> <h3>Localization</h3> <p>Bugzilla administrators can configure which languages are supported by their installations and automatically serve correct, localized content to users based on the HTTP 'Accept-Language' header sent from users' browsers.</p> <p>There are currently localized templates available for:</p> <ul> <li>Arabic</li> <li>Belarusian</li> <li>Bulgarian</li> <li>Chinese</li> <li>Czech</li> <li>French</li> <li>German</li> <li>Italian</li> <li>Japanese</li> <li>Korean</li> <li>Polish</li> <li>Portuguese (Brazil)</li> <li>Spanish (Spain or Mexico)</li> <li>Russian</li> </ul> <p>These localized template packs are third-party contributions, may only be available for specific versions, and may not be supported in the future. (See the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071208074031/http://www.bugzilla.org/download/#localizations">Localizations Section</a> of the Download page.)</p> <p>It is also possible to translate Bugzilla yourself, by just copying and translating the existing templates. See the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071208074031/http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/localizer.html">Localizer's Guide</a> for more information!</p> <a name="mod_perl"></a> <h3>mod_perl Support for Excellent Performance</h3> <p>Bugzilla can be run under Apache's <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071208074031/http://perl.apache.org/">mod_perl</a>, which greatly speeds up individual page loads. Bugzilla pages often load in under a second when running under mod_perl.</p> <p>Bugzilla also runs in a non-mod_perl environment, so you can run it under Apache's normal mod_cgi, IIS, or the web server of your choice!</p> <a name="webservices"></a> <h3>Webservices (XML-RPC) Interface</h3> <p>Bugzilla can be accessed and modified by an XML-RPC Webservices interface. This makes it possible to write external tools that interact with Bugzilla easily. The Bugzilla Project works to keep the Webservice interface of Bugzilla stable across releases, so an application written against one version of Bugzilla's XML-RPC interface should continue to work against future Bugzilla versions.</p> <a name="groups"></a> <h3>Control Bug Visibility/Editing with Groups</h3> <p>Bugzilla allows you to define which groups of users can edit or see which bugs. These controls are very advanced, and were designed to support small-group needs to full enterprise group systems.</p> <a name="sudo"></a> <h3>Impersonate Users</h3> <p>Bugzilla administrators can impersonate any user in the system (except other administrators). This helps for troubleshooting, and also is useful at other times.</p> <a name="auth"></a> <h3>Multiple Authentication Methods</h3> <p>Bugzilla supports authenticating against its built-in user database or against an LDAP server.</p> <p>It also supports fall-through authentication, so that it can use any authentication method supported by Apache (or your web server).</p> <p>You can also "stack" these authentication methods, so that, for example, it falls back to the Bugzilla database if the user isn't found in LDAP.</p> <a name="dbs"></a> <h3>Support for Multiple Database Engines</h3> <p>Bugzilla can run on both MySQL and PostgreSQL. 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