FogBugz 7.0 Online Help

Searching in FogBugz

FogBugz Search works pretty much as you expect: you type your search terms in the box, and click Search.

You can go directly to any case number by typing just a number. If you're actually searching for a number within your case text, just put it in quotation marks (e.g., "456").

You can set up FogBugz as a search provider in your browser. Click Extras and Install Search Engine. This allows you to search in FogBugz directly from the search box in the top right corner of your web browser.

Any search can be saved as a filter, either by clicking on the disk icon in the Search Tools box in the upper right corner of the results page, or from the Filters menu.  

FogBugz will initially return a maximum of 45 case results or 10 wiki or discussion group results, sorted by relevance, with a link to "List all" to see the rest of the results.

FogBugz also supports advanced search queries.

apple peach searches for items containing both apple and peach
apple OR peach searches for items containing either apple or peach
"apple peach" searches for items containing the phrase apple peach
apple -peach searches for items containing apple but not containing peach
pear* Searches for items containing words that start with pear. Can take a long time.

Use axis:query to search specific fields. title:pear will find everything with the word pear in the title. -title:pear will find everything without the word pear in the title.

You can  also combine axes with Boolean queries and parentheses.  newfeature (assignedto:Tester1 OR assignedto:Tester2) (resolvedby:Developer1 OR resolvedby:Developer2) will return all cases that mention newfeature that have been resolved by either Developer1 or Developer2 that are currently assigned to Tester1 or Tester2

Note that OR has a lower priority than the implied AND, so assignedto:Tester1 OR assignedto:Tester2 resolvedby:Developer1 will return all cases assigned to Tester1 as well as cases that are both assigned to Tester2 and resolved by Developer1. To get the result of cases resolved by Developer1 that are assigned to Tester1 or Tester2, use parentheses: (assignedto:Tester1 OR assignedto:Tester2) resolvedby:Developer1

Combining action: and actionby: axes (e.g. edited/editedby, or opened/openedby) has a special behavior, where the FogBugz searcher links the two searches. For instance, in the case of editedby:me edited:today, FogBugz will return only cases that I edited today, rather than the strict intersection which would be the cases I edited at some point which were also edited by somebody (not necessarily me) today. If you want to search for a case edited by more than one person, please use the syntax of editedby:me alsoeditedby:michael.

Use the type axis to specify what type of documents you wish to search. type:case will search for cases, type:wiki will search for wiki pages, and type:discuss will search for discussion topics. If you use a search axis such as edited that applies to all types of documents, FogBugz will return a summary of search results organized by document type.

You can search dates and date ranges (use .. to indicate date ranges). Here are some date search examples:

edited:"March 2007" everything modified during the month of March 2007
edited:"3/26/2007" everything modified on March 26, 2007
edited:"March 2007..June 2007" everything modified during the months of March through June in 2007
edited:"3-26-2007..6-8-2007" everything modified between March 26, 2007 and June 8, 2007, inclusive
edited:"today" everything modified today
edited:"last Thursday" everything modified on the Thursday of the previous week
resolved:"last month" everything resolved in the previous calendar month
resolved:"this week" everything resolved between Sunday of the current week and today
due:"..today" everything that is past due or due today
due:"tomorrow" everything due tomorrow
due:"next week" everything due from next Sunday through the following Saturday

Axes for searching cases

In general, an axis can be formed from the title of any column in the grid view by removing the spaces e.g. the "Assigned To" column becomes the "assignedto:" axis. To find out what possible values are available for a given axis, add the corresponding column to the grid view of a filter and see what values are listed.

AlsoEditedBy cases edited by the specified user, to be used in combination with EditedBy
Area cases in the specified area
AssignedTo cases assigned to the specified user
Attachment cases with an attachment with the specified name
Category cases with the specified category
Client cases belonging to the specified client
Closed (date) cases closed on the date specified
ClosedBy cases last closed by the specified user
Computer cases containing specific text in the second custom field. Note that this field may have been renamed in your installation.
Correspondent cases with the specified email correspondent
CreatedBy cases created by the specified user
Department cases belonging to the specified department
Due (date) cases due on the date specified
Edited (date) cases modified on the date specified
EditedBy cases edited by the specified user
ElapsedTime cases with the specified (range of) elapsed time
EstimateCurrent cases with the specified (range of) current estimate e.g. EstimateCurrent:"..2h" would show all cases with less than 2 hours of estimated work remaining.
EstimateOriginal cases with the specified (range of) original estimate
From cases with emails from the specified email address
LastEdited (date) cases that were modified on the date specified and have not been modified since then
LastEditedBy cases last edited by the specified user
LastViewed (date) cases that you last viewed on the date specified
Milestone cases assigned to the specified milestone
Occurrences Number of occurrences for a BugzScout case
Opened (date) cases opened on the date specified
OpenedBy cases last opened or reopened by the specified user
OrderBy This takes another axis as its argument and sorts the search results by that axis e.g. "OrderBy:Milestone OrderBy:Priority" will sort the search results first by Milestone, and then by Priority. You can also reverse the order by using a negative sign and wrapping the whole term in quotes: OrderBy:"-Milestone" OrderBy:Priority
Outline returns cases in the same subcase hierarchy as the specfied case.
Parent returns all subcases of the specified case.
Priority cases with the specified priority
Project cases in the specified project
RelatedTo cases that are linked to the specified case
Release same as milestone
ReleaseNotes search for "ReleaseNotes:*" to see all cases with release notes
RemainingTime cases with the specified (range of) original estimate
Resolved (date) cases resolved on the date specified
ResolvedBy cases last resolved by the specified user
Show cases with the specified attribute (Read, Unread, Subscribed or Spam)
StarredBy starredby:me shows cases you have starred.
Status cases with the specified status
Tag cases with the specified tag
Title cases containing the specified words in the title
To cases with email to the specified email address
Version cases containing specific text in the first custom field. Note that this field may have been renamed in your installation.
ViewedBy viewedby:me shows cases you have previously viewed.

Axes for searching wiki pages

Edited (date) wiki pages that were modified on the date specified
EditedBy wiki pages edited by the specified user
LastEdited (date) wiki pages that were modified on the date specified and have not been modified since then
LastEditedBy wiki pages last edited by the specified user
LastViewed (date) wiki pages that you last viewed on the date specified
Show wiki pages with the specified attribute (Read, Unread or Subscribed)
StarredBy starredby:me shows wiki pages you have starred.
Title Finds wiki pages containing the specified words in the title
ViewedBy viewedby:me shows wiki pages you have previously viewed.
Wiki wiki pages in the specified wiki

Axes for searching discussion topics

CreatedBy topics created by the specified user
DiscussionGroup topics in the specified discussion group
Edited (date) topics that were modified on the date specified
EditedBy topics edited by the specified user
LastEdited (date) topics modified on the date specified and which have not been modified since then
LastEditedBy topics last edited by the specified user
LastViewed (date) topics that you last viewed on the date specified
Opened (date) topics opened on the date specified
Show topics with the specified attribute (Read or Unread)
StarredBy starredby:me shows topics you have starred.
Title topics containing the specified words in the title
Type type:case for cases, type:wiki for wiki pages, type:discuss for discussion topics
ViewedBy viewedby:me shows topics you have previously viewed.

About the FogBugz Search Engine

For performance and search quality, FogBugz has its own full-text search engine, based on Apache's Lucene.NET.

FogBugz builds its index in the background, and updates it frequently. However:

Go to Admin | Site and click on the Search tab to see the status of the index, and what percentage of your database is indexed.

On rare occasions when the index is not available or missing large amounts of data, FogBugz starts re-indexing with the most recently updated cases first, in an attempt to get the most relevant cases into the index as soon as possible.