[Trac-tickets] Re: [The Trac Project] #879: Allow querying by empty values on Advanced Query screen

[The Trac Project]

#879: Allow querying by empty values on Advanced Query screen
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       Id:  879            |      Status:  assigned                
Component:  ticket system  |    Modified:  Thu Nov  4 15:47:54 2004
 Severity:  normal         |   Milestone:                          
 Priority:  normal         |     Version:  devel                   
    Owner:  cmlenz         |    Reporter:  pkou <pkou at ua.fm>    
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Changes (by cmlenz):

  * component:  report system => ticket system
  * keywords:  => query
  * status:  new => assigned
  * owner:  daniel => cmlenz

Comment:

 I must say I'm not a big fan of the magic '''(empty)''' value. Clearly a
 solution to selecting empty properties would be cool, but I'd really
 prefer something more usable. And that needs to be worked out... I've been
 playing with ideas for a simpler but more powerful interface for building
 queries ever since I added the current rudimentary screen (see the comment
 on #203), and this particular requirement will be part of it.

 Anyway, the other changes you mixed in with the ""select empty"
 enhancement look good, and I'll check those in in a sec. The one change
 that I don't think is a good idea is the ordering of enum rows by value.
 The default ordering of the enum rows actually makes a lot of sense and
 sorting alphabetically by value sort of destroys that "natural" order.

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