Filters

When you click List in FogBugz, you don't see every single case in the system: you only see cases that match your current filter.

Your filter is remembered until you change it, even when you log on from another computer or browser.

To see fewer cases, you can refine a filter, adding a criterion, by clicking on the name of the filter:

You can also search within filters by expanding the "Search for" option.

To change or remove a criterion, click on the underlined term:

Five filter controls are always available.

1. The Save Filter control lets you save a filter with a name. After you have saved it, it appears in the Filters menu at the top of the screen. FogBugz administrators can share their saved filters.
2. The Select Columns control determines which columns appear in the current filter.
3. The Outline View / Flat View control determines if subcases are displayed within a case heirarchy or alongside all other cases in a flat list.
4. The View control switches back and forth between the default outline view, which displays cases and subcases in a hierarchical outline, and the familiar flat view, which displays cases and subcases in a flat list.
5. The RSS Feed control (available in the More drop-down menu) provides a link to an RSS feed for the current filter which you can use in your RSS aggregator. RSS feeds are only available when you have saved the filter.
6. The Permanent Link control (also available in the More drop-down menu) reloads the page with a URL that fully describes the current filter in the querystring. This allows you to provide another user with a link to the exact same filter.

When you are looking at a list of cases in grid view, you can:

Rearrange columns, by dragging the column header left and right.

Sort by a column by clicking on the column header; reverse sort by clicking it again.

Tip: To sort by two or three terms, click the column headers in reverse order. For example, to sort by area first, and by priority within each area, click on the Priority header and then the Area header.

Change the width of a column by dragging the thin gray separator between two column headers.

Autosize a column to the minimum width necessary to show everything, by double-clicking on the thin gray separator to the right of the column header.

Saving a filter also saves which columns are selected, and the sort order.