Category: Bugzilla

Look in the Groups list for any groups that have automatic assignment via the User RegExp and remove the RegExp. Create a group called “Canstilledit” (Administration/Groups/Add Group). Admins are automatically added. You may need to review who is an admin and remove them. For each product uncheck “Open for bug entry” to not allow creating […]

Each bug in Bugzilla keeps track of changes made to it. You can view these changes by clicking the History link at the top right of the page. The obvious question is “what gets tracked?” The answer is “a lot, but not everything” Specifically these fields are tracked: Unfortunately descriptions and comments are not tracked.

To prevent users from attaching files to bugs: Go to Administration / Parameters / Attachments and set both maxattachmentsize and maxlocalattachment settings to 0.

The upload limits are set within Bugzilla. Go to Administration / Parameters / Attachments and take a look at the maxattachmentsize setting.

You can create a backup of your Bugzilla database at any time. First log into your control panel at https://devzing.com/login Then choose Info & Backup from the Bugzilla menu. Then click the Create Backup button. Your backup will be scheduled and you will receive an email when it completes with a link to download it. […]

There are only a couple of things you need to do to get started using your Bugzilla: Adding products Bugzilla comes with one product pre-installed – “TestProduct” the easiest thing to do is to edit this product to be your own. A product is the “big bucket” that everything fits into. For example the product […]

How to setup Bugzilla security Bugzilla administrators are often asked to set up products that only a limited number of users have access to. This is very true in professional service organizations where the internal team needs to see all the bugs, but the individual clients should only see the bugs related to their project. […]

Bugzilla has a hidden feature that lets you search (and report) by relative dates. For example, say you wanted to search for everything where the status was changed in the last week. If today is March 8th the obvious way to do this looks like: Of course if you wanted to run this every day […]

By default Bugzilla sends emails for a number of different reasons. As a user you can control the kinds of emails you receive by navigating to Preferences / Email Preferences. There you will see a grid email types and triggers. Select those that make sense for you. As an administrator you have a few more […]