Not obvious that you can search by bug number

Bug #271711 reported by symphony
6
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Triaged
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

It's not obvious that you can jump straight to a bug report by entering its bug number in the bug search field.

Original report description:

It is very difficult to search for a reported bug after some time since there is no option present for "Bug Id" or Bug Number as a search criteria. The options which are available under search option (For eg: importance, status, etc) can be made sortable in the Bug list columns itself.
Search using defect number is a very basic functionality for any bug reporting tool/application.

See also bug 5943.

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symphony (sds-sweety) wrote :
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Ursula Junque (ursinha) wrote :

Hi,

You can search by bug number by typing it on the search box, It'll take you right to the bug report. We can confirm a lack of documentation explaining that, thanks for pointing it.

Cheers,

Ursula

Changed in launchpad:
assignee: nobody → matthew.revell
description: updated
Changed in launchpad:
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Martin Albisetti (beuno) wrote :

This looks like an UI issue rather than documentation, doesn't it?
The search should clearly indicate that you can search by bug number.

Changed in launchpad-documentation:
status: New → Triaged
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Matthew Revell (matthew.revell) wrote :

Martin: I've been looking for a suitable place to put this message but I'm not sure I see one in the existing page template. Perhaps you could take a look.

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Matthew Revell (matthew.revell) wrote :

Reassigning to Martin A following an IRC conversation.

Martin -- I'd love to take a look at the text for this when you get to it.

Changed in malone:
assignee: matthew.revell → beuno
Martin Albisetti (beuno)
Changed in malone:
assignee: Martin Albisetti (beuno) → nobody
description: updated
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
Changed in launchpad:
importance: Medium → Low
tags: added: search ui
William Grant (wgrant)
tags: added: bug-search
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