custom query / search in ticket comments
Steve Schmerler
I started with Trac about 2 month ago, so far I'm very happy with it,
thanks.
I'd like to ask if it possible to custom-query ticket comments. I know I
can query Summary and Description, but not Comments, which I find to be
a pretty important use case. The normal search function searches there,
too but I think that the Custom Query machinery is much more useful and
would be even more so with this additional feature.
Since I didn't find something in the documentation, I'd like to
know if someone knows about a plugin which might do that. I didn't find
anything on trac-hacks.org so far.
I found [1] where the exact same question is asked. However, refers to
http://trac.edgewall.org/ticket/1329 which has a very different subject.
Thanks!
best,
Steve
Steve Schmerler
> I'd like to ask if it possible to custom-query ticket comments. I know I
> can query Summary and Description, but not Comments, which I find to be
> a pretty important use case. The normal search function searches there,
> too but I think that the Custom Query machinery is much more useful and
> would be even more so with this additional feature.
>
> Since I didn't find something in the documentation, I'd like to
> know if someone knows about a plugin which might do that. I didn't find
> anything on trac-hacks.org so far.
In case anyone has the same question:
I found TracAdvancedSearchPlugin but I don't know if it searches
comments. Haven't gotten around to set up a search engine (solr), which
might be overkill anyway (if we can search in keywords, summary etc,
why not in comments). If I really need it, I'll try to write a plugin.
My use case is to custom-query all tickets which have been commented the
same way like "partly-fixed, wait-for-user-input" and modify them in the
same way. I can do the modify part nicely with the BatchModifyPlugin.
The workaround for the search part is to batch-modify the keywords
instead of the comments since keywords can be queried.
best,
Steve