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<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968"><title>3.7. Milestones</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../style.css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.78.1"><meta name="keywords" content="Bugzilla, Guide, installation, FAQ, administration, integration, MySQL, Mozilla, webtools"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="The Bugzilla Guide - 4.4.11 Release"><link rel="up" href="administration.html" title="Chapter 3. Administering Bugzilla"><link rel="prev" href="versions.html" title="3.6. Versions"><link rel="next" href="flags-overview.html" title="3.8. Flags"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">3.7. Milestones</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="versions.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Chapter 3. Administering Bugzilla</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="flags-overview.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="milestones"></a>3.7. Milestones</h2></div></div></div><p>Milestones are "targets" that you plan to get a bug fixed by. For
example, you have a bug that you plan to fix for your 3.0 release, it
would be assigned the milestone of 3.0.</p><div class="note" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em"><table border="0" summary="Note"><tr><td rowspan="2" align="center" valign="top" width="25"><img alt="[Note]" src="../images/note.gif"></td><th align="left"></th></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top"><p>Milestone options will only appear for a Product if you turned
on the "usetargetmilestone" parameter in the "Bug Fields" tab of the
"Parameters" page.
</p></td></tr></table></div><p>To create new Milestones, and set Default Milestones:</p><div class="orderedlist"><ol class="orderedlist" type="1"><li class="listitem"><p>Select "Edit milestones" from the "Edit product" page.</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Select "Add" in the bottom right corner.</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Enter the name of the Milestone in the "Milestone" field. You
can optionally set the "sortkey", which is a positive or negative
number (-32768 to 32767) that defines where in the list this particular
milestone appears. This is because milestones often do not
occur in alphanumeric order For example, "Future" might be
after "Release 1.2". Select "Add".</p></li></ol></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="versions.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="administration.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="flags-overview.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">3.6. Versions </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> 3.8. Flags</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
