Hi,
Just reviewing 3.8, very nice (love the new theme). One thing that
stuck me though, is that the search builder still seems to be very
difficult to use, and almost impossible (it seems) to do what should
be a simple thing without going into the advanced window.
The Primary difficulty is constructing queries with variations of AND
and OR, and nesting,
For example… Constructing a fairly standard query like
Subject LIKE ‘abc123’ AND Queue = ‘General’ AND ( Status = ‘new’ OR
Status = ‘open’ )
using the point/click search builder seems impossible, or at least,
not intuitive, I can’t workout how to do it.
This is the same as with the version of RT that I use (3.2.2, yes,
old)… I was hoping this would have been been fixed by now.
Is this is a bug in the new version, or just the way query builder
works… or am I just doing it wrong?
Regards,
Matthew Watson.
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Matthew Watson writes:
Hi,
Just reviewing 3.8, very nice (love the new theme). One thing that
stuck me though, is that the search builder still seems to be very
difficult to use, and almost impossible (it seems) to do what should
be a simple thing without going into the advanced window.
The Primary difficulty is constructing queries with variations of AND
and OR, and nesting,
For example… Constructing a fairly standard query like
Subject LIKE ‘abc123’ AND Queue = ‘General’ AND ( Status = ‘new’ OR
Status = ‘open’ )
using the point/click search builder seems impossible, or at least,
not intuitive, I can’t workout how to do it.
I wouldn’t say it is intuitive unless you’ve been doing it a few
years, but you can get your query above by:
Select ‘Subject matches “abc123”, Queue is general, and Status is new’
Hit add
Click to select “Status = ‘new’” in the Current Search box
Click on the right arrow button to make it a subquery
Change the Aggregator to ‘OR’ and add the “Status = ‘open’” clause
Hit add.
Is this is a bug in the new version, or just the way query builder
works… or am I just doing it wrong?
In truth, I usually add about half of that then go to the advanced
box. My theory is that the interface is intuitive to the authors of
DBIx::SearchBuilder but presents challenges to the rest of us 
Cheers,
Michael
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Thanks michael, that worked great. I guess it does just come down to
it not being intuitive, and the order of you doing things being very
important.
My general way of doing things is just to add all the fields I need to
restrict on, and then just go advanced.
Regards,
Matthew Watson.On 17/07/2008, at 10:56 AM, Michael Brader wrote:
Matthew Watson writes:
Hi,
Just reviewing 3.8, very nice (love the new theme). One thing that
stuck me though, is that the search builder still seems to be very
difficult to use, and almost impossible (it seems) to do what should
be a simple thing without going into the advanced window.
The Primary difficulty is constructing queries with variations of AND
and OR, and nesting,
For example… Constructing a fairly standard query like
Subject LIKE ‘abc123’ AND Queue = ‘General’ AND ( Status = ‘new’ OR
Status = ‘open’ )
using the point/click search builder seems impossible, or at least,
not intuitive, I can’t workout how to do it.
I wouldn’t say it is intuitive unless you’ve been doing it a few
years, but you can get your query above by:
Select ‘Subject matches “abc123”, Queue is general, and Status is new’
Hit add
Click to select “Status = ‘new’” in the Current Search box
Click on the right arrow button to make it a subquery
Change the Aggregator to ‘OR’ and add the “Status = ‘open’” clause
Hit add.
Is this is a bug in the new version, or just the way query builder
works… or am I just doing it wrong?
In truth, I usually add about half of that then go to the advanced
box. My theory is that the interface is intuitive to the authors of
DBIx::SearchBuilder but presents challenges to the rest of us
Cheers,
Michael
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In truth, I usually add about half of that then go to the advanced
box. My theory is that the interface is intuitive to the authors of
DBIx::SearchBuilder but presents challenges to the rest of us
Agreed. It probably makes sense to whoever built it, but the query
builder is one of the very few things where RT is not quite usable.
Usually, I use the advanced builder. This is a lot less complex
and frustrating than the query builder.
On the other hand, this is a complex concept and I am not
sure how to improve RT in this regard.
Other than making the ‘load saved query’ part stand out so you
don’t accidentially click load all the time, that is. This seems to
happen quite often to my co-workers.
Richard
Matthew Watson writes:
Hi,
Just reviewing 3.8, very nice (love the new theme). One thing that
stuck me though, is that the search builder still seems to be very
difficult to use, and almost impossible (it seems) to do what should
be a simple thing without going into the advanced window.
The Primary difficulty is constructing queries with variations of AND
and OR, and nesting,
For example… Constructing a fairly standard query like
Subject LIKE ‘abc123’ AND Queue = ‘General’ AND ( Status = ‘new’ OR
Status = ‘open’ )
using the point/click search builder seems impossible, or at least,
not intuitive, I can’t workout how to do it.
[snip]
Is this is a bug in the new version, or just the way query builder
works… or am I just doing it wrong?
In truth, I usually add about half of that then go to the advanced
box. My theory is that the interface is intuitive to the authors of
DBIx::SearchBuilder but presents challenges to the rest of us
it’s challenging for everybody.
Cheers,
Michael
Best regards, Ruslan.