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Many Mozilla teams have had their own getting-started guides to BMO usage. Some of these have fallen out of date, recommending procedures that have been obsoleted by [[BMO/Recent_Changes|new features]]. We're hoping this will be a comprehensive guide for Mozilla contributors on any and all teams. If your team has some useful info in your own BMO guide and it's not here, feel free to add it. If we notice that it's no longer a recommended way to use BMO, we'll fix it. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Be_bold Be bold] in the wiki way!
Finally, this is a work in progress (and may always be, since BMO is improving all the time). There are many stubs(indicated by italics). If you feel like you know enough to write a paragraph or two about any subject, please do!
= BMO vs Bugzilla =
= Searching =
''Omg, so many ways to search; why do we have so many, and how do they work?''
== Quick Search ==
''Quick Search rocks! You should use it.''
== Advanced Search, Pronouns ==
''Advanced search looks hardcore, but the rewards for learning how to drive it are plentiful. Also, pronouns are amazing.''
== Other Searches (Instant, Simple, Google) ==
''In case you were looking for more ways to search.''
= Bugmail Filtering =
''Too much bugmail? Filter on BMO itself and/or via x-headers!''
== Filtering with GMail ==
= Bug Tagging =
''Want to organise or keep track on bugs which are important to you? Use tags.''
= Comment Tagging =
''Want to convey some out-of-band information on a comment? Tag it. Want to auto-collapse a spammy, abusive, or obsolete comment? Tag it.''
= Keywords and the Whiteboard =
''What are all these keywords and weird whiteboard stuff? What is a whiteboard anyhow? Which should i use?''
= Tracking Flags =
''tracking-firefox-20? Who's doing the tracking? Should i even set these flags?''
= APIs =
''I hear you want to integrate with BMO. Where to start, what to do next, and best practices which won't get you blocked.''
= Copy of BMO Database =
''Before you point wget at bmo, we can give you a dump of the database. really. Well, hopefully we will be able to, once we get some privacy issues cleaned up.''
= Custom Reports =
''For when advanced searching isn't advanced enough... ask a BMO developer to write you a custom report.''
= Needinfo Flag =
''It's good and you should use it.''
= Whining =
''Bugzilla can automatically send you buglists (requires canconfirm).''
= Dashboards =
''Trying to answer the "what should i do today" question? Go no further than the dashboards.''
