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>2.4. Where can I find my user preferences?</A
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>&#13;      Customized User Preferences offer tremendous versatility to your
      individual Bugzilla experience. Let's plunge into what you can
      do!  The first step is to click the "Edit prefs" link at the
      footer of each page once you have logged in to <A
HREF="http://landfill.tequilarista.org/bugzilla-tip/query.cgi?GoAheadAndLogIn=1"
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>&#13;	On this page, you can change your basic Account Settings,
	including your password and full name. For security reasons,
	in order to change anything on this page you must type your
	<EM
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>"Old
	  Password"</SPAN
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	password, type the new password you want into the <SPAN
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>"New
	  Password"</SPAN
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>"Re-enter
	  new password"</SPAN
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	password correctly.  Select the <SPAN
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	    and you are done.
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>&#13;	  Here you can reduce or increase the amount of email sent you
	  from Bugzilla.  Although this is referred to as
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>, they are,
	  in fact, the standard email filter set.  All of them are
	  self-explanatory, but you can use the filters in interesting
	  ways.  For instance, some people (notably Quality Assurance
	  personnel) often only care to receive updates regarding a
	  bug when the bug changes state, so they can track bugs on
	  their flow charts and know when it is time to pull the bug
	  onto a quality assurance platform for inspection.  Other
	  people set up email gateways to
	    <A
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>Bonsai, the Mozilla automated CVS management system</A
> or <A
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>Tinderbox, the Mozilla automated build management system</A
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	  restrict which types of Bugzilla information are fed to
	  these systems..
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>&#13;	    This option may not be available in all Bugzilla
	    installations, depending upon the preferences of the
	    systems administrator responsible for the setup of your
	    Bugzilla. However, if you really want this functionality,
	    ask her to "enable newemailtech in Params" and "make it
	    the default for all new users", referring her to the
	    Administration section of this Guide.
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>&#13;	  Disregard the warnings about "experimental and bleeding
	  edge"; the code to handle email in a cleaner manner than
	  that historically used for Bugzilla is quite robust and
	  well-tested now.
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>&#13;	  I recommend you enable the option, "Click here to sign up
	  (and risk any bugs)". Your email-box will thank you for it.
	  The fundamental shift in "newemailtech" is away from
	  standard UNIX "diff" output, which is quite ugly, to a
	  prettier, better laid-out email.
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>&#13;	    This option may not be available in all Bugzilla
	    installations, depending upon the preferences of the
	    systems administrator responsible for the setup of your
	    Bugzilla. However, if you really want this functionality,
	    ask her to "enable watchers in Params".
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>&#13;	  By entering user email names into the "Users to watch" text
	  entry box, delineated by commas, you can watch bugs of other
	  users.  This powerful functionality enables seamless
	  transitions as developers change projects, managers wish to
	  get in touch with the issues faced by their direct reports,
	  or users go on vacation.  If any of these three situations
	  apply to you, you will undoubtedly find this feature quite
	  convenient.
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>&#13;	  By default, this page is quite barren.  However, go explore
	  the Query Page some more; you will find that you can store
	  numerous queries on the server, so if you regularly run a
	  particular query it is just a drop-down menu away.  On this
	  page of Preferences, if you have many stored queries you can
	  elect to have them always one-click away!
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>&#13;	If you have many stored queries on the server, here you will
	find individual drop-downs for each stored query.  Each
	drop-down gives you the option of that query appearing on the
	footer of every page in Bugzilla!  This gives you powerful
	one-click access to any complex searches you may set up, and
	is an excellent way to impress your boss...
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>By default, the "My Bugs" link appears at the bottom of
	  each page.  However, this query gives you both the bugs you
	  have reported, as well as those you are assigned.  One of
	  the most common uses for this page is to remove the "My
	  Bugs" link, replacing it with two other queries, commonly
	  called "My Bug Reports" and "My Bugs" (but only referencing
	  bugs assigned to you).  This allows you to distinguish those
	  bugs you have reported from those you are assigned.  I
	  commonly set up complex Boolean queries in the Query page
	  and link them to my footer in this page.  When they are
	  significantly complex, a one-click reference can save hours
	  of work.</P
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>&#13;	This is a purely informative page which outlines your current
	permissions on this installation of Bugzilla.  If you have
	permissions to grant certain permissions to other users, the
	"other users" link appears on this page as well as the footer.
	For more information regarding user administration, please
	consult the Administration section of this Guide.
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