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Pre-fill new issue form with issue list search parameters

Description

When searching for issues, a user already spends some time thinking about the right keywords and modifiers that relate to what they are looking for. When no relevant results are shown, the user may want to create an issue and now has to input a lot of the same information he had on the issue search.

For example, this happens when someone is looking to add a bug or feature proposal to a GitLab issue tracker and searches to see if any similar issues have been created.

We should be taking advantage of the keywords and modifiers in the issue search and passing them on to the issue creation page.

Proposal

When a user has search parameters on the issue list and navigates to the “New issue” screen for that project, pre-fill the “New issue” form with the issue search parameters:

  • Title: search keywords
  • Assignee(s), milestone(s), label(s), and weight

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Overview

What is it? Why should someone use this feature? What is the underlying (business) problem? How do you use this feature?

Use cases

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Feature checklist

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