Question

Searching in FogBugz today using the quick search box will search in all content, including closed cases. Closed cases are in 90% of our cases not of interest anymore. I know we can add e.g. "status:open" to narrow the result, but since we mostly want this behavior, is there a way to configure this as a default?

If not, this is a most-wanted feature :)

Answer 1

There is not currently an option to configure search to exclude closed cases by default.

As a workaround, the following BugMonkey customization will automatically append " status:active" to your search box when you submit your search request:

name:          Search only active cases by default
description:   Modifies the search box to only search for active cases by default
author:        Dane Bertram
version:       1.0.1.0

js:

$('#frmSearch').on('submit', function() {
    var jSearchFor = $('#searchFor');
    var search = jSearchFor.val();
    if (search.toLowerCase().indexOf('status:') === -1 && !/^\d+$/.test(search.trim())) {
        jSearchFor.val(search + ' status:active');
    }
});

Note that this customization will only append " status:active" if your customer search

1. doesn't already include a "status:" clause AND
2. isn't just a case number (i.e., you're trying to do a quick case lookup)

Answer 2

The BugMonkey script proposed by @db breaks quick lookup on case id. Here's an extended version that alleviates that issue:

name:          Search only active cases by default
description:   Modifies the search box to only search for active cases by default. Will only add the status axis if the search is not a number.
author:        Dane Bertram
version:       1.0.0.1

js:

$('#frmSearch').on('submit', function() {
    var jSearchFor = $('#searchFor');
    var searchForVal = jSearchFor.val();

    if (searchForVal.indexOf(' ') === -1)
    {
        var number = parseInt(searchForVal, 10);
        if (!isNan(number))
            return;
    }

    if (searchForVal.indexOf('status:') === -1) {
        jSearchFor.val(searchForVal + ' status:active');
    }
});