Question

Say we have the following case:

1. Jen Ninja (a Developer with an awesome last name) likes to look at the following list view filter:

   All open cases assigned to Jen Ninja with the status of Active

2. Jen Ninja gets assigned a bunch of cases (some of them bugs, some of them features).

3. Jen looks at her filtered list and see them. No problem.

4. Jen Ninja bangs out all of her cases and they then get assigned to various QA people.

5. Two days before release, Jen’s boss asks here ‘What were all of things you worked on?’

6. Jen has a decent memory, but would feel more comfortable seeing what Fogbugz says she worked on.

How does Jen change her filter so she can answer this question with confidence?

Answer 1

This is surprisingly difficult. Searching by name doesn’t work as the ‘Assigned To’ and ‘Resolved By’, etc. items are not searched even though they are shown when you bring a case up on screen. Typically, I (as a developer) am listed as the ‘Resolver’ on each FogBugz case so the closest I’ve come is to run a search on all cases (Open and Closed) where I am listed as the person who resolved it. In a separate search, I look for all Closed cases where I closed it (you cannot do both Resolved and Closed or you’ll only gets those where I both Resolved and Closed it).

The only way I see to make this easy in FogBugz is for Jen to ‘Subscribe’ to every case she works on. If she does this, then it is very easy to generate the list: just show all cases to which she is subscribed.

Joel sometimes frequents these parts so perhaps you’ll get him to comment.