ordering options should match data that is displayed in bug listings

[EmmaJane]

In searching bugs related to.... on https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/~emmajane/

Match the options in the drop down search "sort by" to match the names of the columns on the page (e.g. Location vs. In). Include new column heads where none exist (e.g. Milestone).

Screen shot attached, of course.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

When we did user testing a year ago, one thing we saw (though not with enough people yet to be a statistically reliable result) was that people didn't notice the sort menu at all. So one way of resolving this inconsistency would be to remove the menu completely, and use the column headers for sorting instead. That would solve this problem as well, but it would introduce two new problems: it would make choosing a sort order slower (because you'd need to wait for the initial results to load first), and there are some sort orders in the menu that don't have columns (so they'd need to have new columns or be dropped).

[EmmaJane (emmajane)]

Did I open a new bug for filtering by column heading too? My brain's officially turned to Friday afternoon mush. :) I think this is two separate problems (filter widget and column headings being sortable) and I think I put the location of filter on search into a different bug report....

It's fine to have the column filters regardless of the "filter on search" widget. Even if it's slower, it's at least visible. I do think that all columns in the table should have a sort order if you are going to offer it for any columns. Mostly this is because I always seem to want to sort based on the one thing I can't sort on...

It would be annoying for expert users if you completely removed the filter option. I believe I have a second bug opened on grouping filters into the same location on the page though. This one was just about altering the names of the options in the filter widget to match the names of the column. I was looking for column names in the filter widget and got confused by "location" not matching "in."

[Launchpad QA Bot (lpqabot)]

Fixed in stable r14461 <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~launchpad-pqm/launchpad/stable/revision/14461>.