Filtering tickets by multiple keywords

[wijister@…]

It would be nice to be able to filter tickets specifying multiple keywords (all of which would have to be present).

I am well aware of #2647, but my idea is somewhat different. The nature of keywords field is very specific, in the way that it contains only space-separated words. Simply typing several keywords and hiting Enter is unmatched in elegance by any AND-linked filter (which would require 4 clicks at least, for every additional keyword).

This could be done by adding keyword-specific "contains all of" type to the drop down. Possibly even being the default option. Also this could be easier to implement than #2647 and could serve as a nice substitute until 0.12, at least.

[wijister@…]

Added support for multiple-keywords filtering - unfortunately breaks filtering JS

[wijister@…]

Added the patch.

I still can't figure out how on earth the filtering JS gets broken. It behaves weirdly in Konqueror and refuses to work at all in FF.

Any help or hint where to start would be appreciated...

[cboos]

Well, I think we can go one step further. Keywords being keywords, you don't expect to match a particular sequence of words when entering multiple keywords in that field, so I think it's safe to assume that if there are multiple keywords, then we're looking for all of them (the any of them query being available by using an additional "or" filter).

Tentatively scheduling for 0.11.

[anonymous]

Replying to cboos:

Well, I think we can go one step further. Keywords being keywords, you don't expect to match a particular sequence of words when entering multiple keywords in that field, so I think it's safe to assume that if there are multiple keywords, then we're looking for all of them (the any of them query being available by using an additional "or" filter).

Tentatively scheduling for 0.11.

I agree.

I've redone the patch so that the multiple word matching will trigger on the condition that:

• we are filtering by keywords
• we are using the 'contains' matching mode

An additional matching mode is probably a bit overdo in this case.

[wijister@…]

Added support for multiple-keywords filtering

[cboos]

#8329 was closed as duplicate. It was requesting a slightly more powerful feature: the ability to look for combined AND terms and AND NOT terms.
I suggested using - for negating, as is common in search interfaces.

Example: when looking for tickets having keyword implemented but neither pass nor fail, one would write: implemented -pass -fail.

[rblank]

I have reimplemented the second patch for current trunk in [8509], as it didn't apply cleanly anymore. I have also added the negation functionality mentioned in comment:5.