In the beginning of this series, we set up some custom fields to handle data for the bug tracker.  Those custom fields can be used now, to help filter the data and get a more specific view for issues pertaining to any of those custom fields. 

The magic here will be using the weblog entries tag with the search parameter and segments.

Shall we? 

Onwards!

Lisa,

Great addition!  I’ve never used the search parameter before.  Thanks for explaining it!

One comment - When I click on the “Major” severity link, the output doubles the

So it reads:

Filtering by Major severity
Filtering by Major severity

That is the only type that is duplicated?!  The minor, trivial, and critical only read out with one of the “Filtering by” statements.

Jesse

Hrm, Jesse - I can’t reproduce that, but I have no bugs of Major severity.  Are you sure you put that Filtering comment inside the {if count == “1”} conditional?

Are you sure you put that Filtering comment inside the {if count == “1”} conditional?

Now I am!

That was it.  It is strange that it only affected one of the types while it was out of the {if count ==“1”} conditional though…

Thanks for another great addition to this section.

I’m assuming your other severities had more than one entry? =)

I’m glad it’s fixed now and thank you for the feedback.  I was really looking forward to writing this article, as I think that the flexibility of search: with segments is just awesome; I played with it for a good long while when I was first allowed to test it.  Quite possibly one of my favorite newer features. =)

As I have said before, I think that these series are the way that I learn the details of EE best.

I am always looking forward to the next installment!

Keep them up!

I agree with jschutt. Never really understood and used the segments before.
Your tutorials are great. Can’t get enough of this stuff.
Thanks Lisa. 

Wow, segments… I couldn’t imagine building a site without it… Seriously, I use them on every single site. But, yes, Lisa writes nice tutorials