Creating a Bugzilla Account The first time you use Bugzilla, you will need to create an account.  You can do this easily at the 'Please log in' page. To make a new account: 1) Enter your email address associated with your Magic Online account, and click the 'E-mail me a password' button. 2) Bugzilla will email you the password for your Bugzilla account.  NOTE: this is NOT the same as your Magic Online password. Log into Bugzilla: 1) Enter your email address associated with your Magic Online account 2) Enter your password for Bugzilla - not your Magic Online password 3) Click the Login button Forgotten Password: If you have forgotten your Bugzilla password, and don't have the email that was sent to you containing it, simply: 1) Enter your email address 2) Click the 'E-mail me a password' button Your password will be emailed to you within a few minutes.

Simply fill in the following fields: Component:  Try to pick the topic from the list that you think best suits the bug you have found, if you're unsure of what to select, just use 'General'. Platform:  Your computer's processor, if you know it. OS:  Your operating system, for example: Windows 95, Windows NT, etc. Severity:  Do your best to select the severity level of the bug.  If it's something that crashed the program, please mark it 'Critical', if it's a suggestion for a new feature, use 'Enhancement'. Summary:  Enter a brief description of the bug - summarizing what it is. Description:  A full description of the bug, including game number, if appropriate.  Please provide us with as much relevant information as you can, such as - what exactly were you doing when the bug happened, had anything else unusual happened at about the same time, etc. Commit:  Click this button to enter the new bug.

This page is VERY useful for searching  to see if an issue you have found has already been reported by another player.  Please do not input duplicate bugs, if at all possible.
 

Basically the items on this page are fairly self explanatory.  Once you have set up the parameters that you would like to search all the bugs for, click on the 'Submit Query' button located at the bottom of the page.  A report of bugs that match the criteria you set will then be generated for you. Does the bug exist already? To search and see if the bug you have found is already in the database, the fastest way to do this is to enter a single word directly related to the bug in the 'Summary' field in the middle of this page and then click 'Submit query'. NOTE: searching Bugzilla using the 'Description' field is currently disabled. Any bugs that contain the word you have specified in their description will be shown.  You can examine these bugs to see if another users has already found the same problems and reported it.  You are also allowed to add comments to existing bugs. Other Items Status: New, Assigned and Reopened are selected by default.  This means that the report generated will show only those bugs that are in one of these categories.  Resolved, Verified or Closed bugs would not me included in the report. Resolution:, Platform: & OpSys Typically, nothing is selected here.  If you would like to see bugs that have been entered based on a specific computer platform or operating system, select one from the list. Priority: & Severity: If you would only like to examine bugs of a specific priority or severity level, select one of these.  Selecting nothing will display all. Email: To examine the bugs that you or another person have either entered or been assigned, simply put an email address, and check 'Assigned To' and/or 'Reporter'.  For example, if you'd like to look at all of the bug you have entered, and your email address is tester@tester.org, type in the the email address in the field, and check the 'Reporter' box, then click the 'Submit query' button. Etc.