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Viewing Bugs
If you want to view list of currently available bugs, you must choose menu View -> Bugs or click “View bugs” button on the application toolbar. List of bugs is displayed in table form. You can change column order or add/remove columns from the list. You can apply filters to the list of bugs. This allows seeing only bugs that you want and exclude bugs that are not important for you. You can add new bugs, change bug information or delete bugs (if you have privilege to do it as Bug Registry user). For detailed description of user privileges click here.

You can refresh current view to display newly created bugs by choosing menu View -> Refresh or by clicking “Refresh” button on the application toolbar.

Configuring Bug View
You can configure bug view in two ways.
1. You can use drag-and-drop method to change column order in the bug view. To do this you must click on the column that you want to move and drag it to the place you want and then drop the column there.
2. You can choose menu View -> Add/remove columns. This will activate “Add/remove columns” dialog box. In this dialog you can choose columns that you want to view by moving them to Selected columns. You can exclude columns from the view by moving them from Selected columns. You can change column order by moving columns up or down in the list of Selected columns.

Adding Bugs
To add new bug you must first open or activate bug view window and then choose menu Edit -> Add bug, click “Add bug” button on the application toolbar or choose Add bug command from the context menu. This will activate “Add bug” dialog box. This dialog box has several tabs. At the General tab enter description, type, severity and module. At the Steps to reproduce tab describe actions that one must do to reproduce error. At the History tab the program will automatically add current time and bug status (New). At the Attachments tab you can attach different files to this bug (text descriptions, screenshots, etc.). File size is limited to 500 KB. Number of attached files is limited to 5. After you have finished click Save button. New bug will be added to the bug list.

This function is available only if you have privilege for adding bugs. For detailed description of user privileges click here.

Editing Bugs
To change bug information you must first open or activate bug view window and then choose menu Edit -> Edit bug, click “Edit bug” button on the application toolbar or choose Edit bug command from the context menu. This will activate “Edit bug” dialog box. This dialog box has several tabs. At the General tab you can change description, type, severity or module. At the Steps to reproduce tab describe actions that one must do to reproduce error. At the History tab you can change bug status and add notes to this change. By changing bug status you can attach bug to the programmer or developer, declare bug fixed, close bug, etc. At the Attachments tab you can attach different files to this bug (text descriptions, screenshots, etc.). File size is limited to 500 KB. Number of attached files is limited to 5. After you have finished click Save button to save changes and Close button. Selected bug will be changed in the bug list.

This function is available only if you have privilege for changing bugs. For detailed description of user privileges click here.

Copying Bugs
To copy bug you must first select bug that you want to copy and then choose menu Edit -> Copy bug, click “Copy bug” button on the application toolbar or choose Copy bug command from the context menu. This will activate “Add bug” dialog box where all fields will be filled with parameters of the bug you have copied. For further description see “Adding bugs” section in this article.

This function is available only if you have privilege for adding bugs. For detailed description of user privileges click here.

Deleting Bugs
To delete bug you must first select bug that you want to delete and then choose menu Edit -> Delete bug, click “Delete bug” button on the application toolbar or choose Delete bug command from the context menu. This function is available only if you have privilege for deleting bugs. For detailed description of user privileges click here. You can select multiple bugs by pressing Ctrl or Shift key and clicking on the bugs. You can select all bugs by choosing menu Edit -> Select All.

Finding Bugs
To find bug you must first open or activate bug view window and then choose menu Edit -> Find bug, click “Find bug” button on the application toolbar or choose Find bug command from the context menu. This will activate “Find bug” dialog box. In this dialog box enter bug No, description (text that description field includes), type, severity, module, status, user name or steps to reproduce (text that steps to reproduce field includes) parameters and click OK button. You can enter one or many search parameters. Program will search the database and display all found bugs in the current bug view window.

You can return to the full bug list by clicking Clear all button and then clicking OK button in the “Find bug” dialog box. The current view would return to the full (or filtered bug list).

Printing Bug View
In Bug Registry you can print list of bugs as it is displayed in the bug view window by choosing menu File -> Print. Before printing you can configure bug view window or apply filter the list of bugs. This allows you to select columns for the report and include only bugs that you want to have in it.

You can preview generated list of bugs by choosing menu File -> Print preview. You will see the generated document in the print preview window. It will either look right, or it won't. If it doesn't then you can return to bug view window and make the changes necessary to get the document generating correctly.

Note: You will not be able to print or preview this report if you do not have printers installed on your computer. Please install a printer before trying to print any reports.