Trac Ticket Queries
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In addition to reports, Trac provides support for custom ticket queries, used to display lists of tickets meeting a specified set of criteria.
To configure and execute a custom query, switch to the View Tickets module from the navigation bar, and select the Custom Query link.
Filters
When you first go to the query page the default filter will display tickets relevant to you:
- If logged in then all open tickets it will display open tickets assigned to you.
- If not logged in but you have specified a name or email address in the preferences then it will display all open tickets where your email (or name if email not defined) is in the CC list.
- If not logged and no name/email defined in the preferences then all open issues are displayed.
Current filters can be removed by clicking the button to the left with the minus sign on the label. New filters are added from the pulldown lists at the bottom corners of the filters box ('And' conditions on the left, 'Or' conditions on the right). Filters with either a text box or a pulldown menu of options can be added multiple times to perform an or of the criteria.
You can use the fields just below the filters box to group the results based on a field, or display the full description for each ticket.
Once you've edited your filters click the Update button to refresh your results.
Navigating Tickets
Clicking on one of the query results will take you to that ticket. You can navigate through the results by clicking the Next Ticket or Previous Ticket links just below the main menu bar, or click the Back to Query link to return to the query page.
You can safely edit any of the tickets and continue to navigate through the results using the Next/Previous/Back to Query links after saving your results. When you return to the query any tickets which were edited will be displayed with italicized text. If one of the tickets was edited such that it no longer matches the query criteria the text will also be greyed. Lastly, if a new ticket matching the query criteria has been created, it will be shown in bold.
The query results can be refreshed and cleared of these status indicators by clicking the Update button again.
Saving Queries
Trac allows you to save the query as a named query accessible from the reports module. To save a query ensure that you have Updated the view and then click the Save query button displayed beneath the results. You can also save references to queries in Wiki content, as described below.
Note: one way to easily build queries like the ones below, you can build and test the queries in the Custom report module and when ready - click Save query. This will build the query string for you. All you need to do is remove the extra line breaks.
Using TracLinks
You may want to save some queries so that you can come back to them later. You can do this by making a link to the query from any Wiki page.
[query:status=new|assigned|reopened&version=1.0 Active tickets against 1.0]
Which is displayed as:
This uses a very simple query language to specify the criteria (see Query Language).
Alternatively, you can copy the query string of a query and paste that into the Wiki link, including the leading ? character:
[query:?status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&group=owner Assigned tickets by owner]
Which is displayed as:
Using the [[TicketQuery]] Macro
The TicketQuery macro lets you display lists of tickets matching certain criteria anywhere you can use WikiFormatting.
Example:
[[TicketQuery(version=0.6|0.7&resolution=duplicate)]]
This is displayed as:
No results
Just like the query: wiki links, the parameter of this macro expects a query string formatted according to the rules of the simple ticket query language.
A more compact representation without the ticket summaries is also available:
[[TicketQuery(version=0.6|0.7&resolution=duplicate, compact)]]
This is displayed as:
No results
Finally, if you wish to receive only the number of defects that match the query, use the count parameter.
[[TicketQuery(version=0.6|0.7&resolution=duplicate, count)]]
This is displayed as:
0
Customizing the table format
You can also customize the columns displayed in the table format (format=table) by using col=<field> - you can specify multiple fields and what order they are displayed by placing pipes (|) between the columns like below:
[[TicketQuery(max=3,status=closed,order=id,desc=1,format=table,col=resolution|summary|owner|reporter)]]
This is displayed as:
Results (1 - 3 of 49)
| Ticket | Resolution | Summary | Owner | Reporter |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #181 | worksforme | LSI Megaraid 438: megamgr works, megactl gives error messages | gandalf | hjmauser@… |
| #180 | worksforme | statically linked versions? | gandalf | Gerold Gruber |
| #178 | fixed | megacli documentation | gandalf | anonymous |
Full rows
In table format you can also have full rows by using rows=<field> like below:
[[TicketQuery(max=3,status=closed,order=id,desc=1,format=table,col=resolution|summary|owner|reporter,rows=description)]]
This is displayed as:
Results (1 - 3 of 49)
| Ticket | Resolution | Summary | Owner | Reporter |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #181 | worksforme | LSI Megaraid 438: megamgr works, megactl gives error messages | gandalf | hjmauser@… |
| Description |
Hello, I am using a Megaraid 438 (in the incarnation of an HP NetRAID 3si) which uses neither megaraid_mm or megaraid_mbox, but the "older" megaraid kernel module. The megadev0 device has to be created manually, but hten megamgr works perfectly and allows full monitoring and management. However, megactl (Debian package for wheezy,version 0.4.3) does only little more than seeing that a card is present - this is my output: hansi@netfinity:~$ sudo megactl -vvvv 1 adapters, driver version 02000000 adapter 0: invalid number of channels a0: cannot read adapter configuration: Success It would be great if you could improve this or trigger an improvement as these cards work perfectly otherwise. Should I also try to report a bug to the sourceforce project on megactl, or is this the right and single place for my report? Thanks and best regards, Hans-Juergen PS: here is the part of my kernel log where the controller is detected: [ 1.981240] megaraid_legacy 0000:00:01.1: PCI INT A -> Link[LK1A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18 [ 1.981333] megaraid: found 0x8086:0x1960:bus 0:slot 1:func 1 [ 1.994878] scsi0:Found MegaRAID controller at 0xf7d00000, IRQ:18 [ 2.071361] megaraid: [\x08\x02C :\x04\x02B ] detected 2 logical drives. [ 2.149474] megaraid: channel[0] is raid. [ 2.149521] megaraid: channel[1] is raid. [ 2.149569] megaraid: channel[2] is raid. [ 2.214437] tg3.c:v3.116 (December 3, 2010) [ 2.215267] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LK3A] enabled at IRQ 19 [ 2.215337] tg3 0000:02:03.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LK3A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19 [ 2.234349] scsi0 : LSI Logic MegaRAID \x08\x02C 254 commands 16 targs 6 chans 7 luns [ 2.240174] scsi0: scanning scsi channel 0 for logical drives. [ 2.251718] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access MegaRAID LD0 RAID1 17356R C PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 [ 2.260147] scsi 0:0:1:0: Direct-Access MegaRAID LD1 RAID5 80026R C PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 [ 2.294856] scsi0: scanning scsi channel 4 [P0] for physical devices. [ 4.957384] scsi0: scanning scsi channel 5 [P1] for physical devices. [ 9.347622] scsi0: scanning scsi channel 6 [P2] for physical devices. |
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| #180 | worksforme | statically linked versions? | gandalf | Gerold Gruber |
| Description |
is it possible to build more statically linked versions of the command line programs? This would allow to use them for VMware ESXi hosts, as it works with tw_cli nice would be megaraid_sas, e.g. |
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| #178 | fixed | megacli documentation | gandalf | anonymous |
| Description |
Actually there *is* some megacli documentation and it is better than a lot of vendor documentation, although that is not exactly difficult. Unlike some documentation it does cover things like all the possible drive statuses and some vague hints about what they indicate. You can find it at htt_p__://subversion.unige.ch/tiki/adm/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=csan:megacli.pdf or htt_p__://techpubs.sgi.com/library/manuals/0000/860-0488-001/pdf/860-0488-001.pdf Yes, I know these are not LSI logical locations but they are reachable by all and sundry. |
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Query Language
query: TracLinks and the [[TicketQuery]] macro both use a mini “query language” for specifying query filters. Basically, the filters are separated by ampersands (&). Each filter then consists of the ticket field name, an operator, and one or more values. More than one value are separated by a pipe (|), meaning that the filter matches any of the values. To include a literal & or | in a value, escape the character with a backslash (\).
The available operators are:
| = | the field content exactly matches one of the values |
| ~= | the field content contains one or more of the values |
| ^= | the field content starts with one of the values |
| $= | the field content ends with one of the values |
All of these operators can also be negated:
| != | the field content matches none of the values |
| !~= | the field content does not contain any of the values |
| !^= | the field content does not start with any of the values |
| !$= | the field content does not end with any of the values |
The date fields created and modified can be constrained by using the = operator and specifying a value containing two dates separated by two dots (..). Either end of the date range can be left empty, meaning that the corresponding end of the range is open. The date parser understands a few natural date specifications like "3 weeks ago", "last month" and "now", as well as Bugzilla-style date specifications like "1d", "2w", "3m" or "4y" for 1 day, 2 weeks, 3 months and 4 years, respectively. Spaces in date specifications can be left out to avoid having to quote the query string.
| created=2007-01-01..2008-01-01 | query tickets created in 2007 |
| created=lastmonth..thismonth | query tickets created during the previous month |
| modified=1weekago.. | query tickets that have been modified in the last week |
| modified=..30daysago | query tickets that have been inactive for the last 30 days |
See also: TracTickets, TracReports, TracGuide
