"People and teams" list uses columns but isn't sortable

FWIW, I brought back column-clicking sorting on the bug listings a couple days ago. Should hit the streets on Tuesday.

On 3-Mar-06, at 2:01 PM, Brad Bollenbach wrote:

> Public bug report changed:
> https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/28612
>
> Comment:
> FWIW, I brought back column-clicking sorting on the bug listings a
> couple days ago. Should hit the streets on Tuesday.

Today I also brought back the sort widget we had previously and, God-
willing (and by "God", I mean "pqm"), we may have it in production by
Tuesday.

Cheers,

--
Brad Bollenbach

Tables aren't sorting for me by clicking on the heading. I'm using epiphany.

mpt, it seems to me we should have only column-click, href-based sorting (an Ajax solution would be nicer, but Ajax is still beyond the horizon, I think), or continue with the sort widget. Of course, column-click also implies showing a column for every column we want to sort on. Having a widget also allows us to use that widget as part of the search criteria.

What do you think? Should we ditch the idea of column-click sorting?

I think so, yes, except for those tables that are always just one page (such as the list of distributions).

If the normal case is to generate HTML links for the columns; and then to inject javascript to do it dynamically /if/ the page has been successfully generated with all the results on one page. That should do it.

Paul, I think that would be a bit inconsistent, don't you? Sometimes being able to column click sort, sometimes not.

Anyway, perhaps you and mpt can work out a win win situation.

I think this should be done by making the column headers links that reload the results with the appropriate sort order.

In "Blueprints", you *can* sort on the headers.

An problem here is: the *page* is sorted, not the column. This behaviour is not what a reasonable person expects.

Steps to confirm:
(1) Open the blueprints of a large project, e.g. Ubuntu
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+specs?start=75

(2) Sort on "Design" (or "Delivery", or "Series", or...)

Notice how the column is sorted: first some "Approved" blueprints, then "Pending Approval", "Review", "Drafting", "Discussion", and finally "New"

At the haeder and the bottom of the page is mentioned "1 → 75 of (thousands of) results"

(3) Click on "Next" (or "Last")

Notice how on the next page, the blueprints re-start with "Approved" blueprints, followed by "Pending Approval", "Review", "Drafting", "Discussion", and "New" ones.

(4) If you're not convinced: go to the other pages as well.

For each multi-page table, where the columns would benefit from sortability, the sortability requires implementing separately. So it's not useful to have a single "Make tables sortable by column heading" request; it would never be implemented all at once for all such tables in Launchpad.

Therefore, I'm un-duplicating the duplicates, and clarifying this bug report to cover just the "People and teams" list.

Barry. If we switch to the standard batch listing table do we get this functionality?

Fixed in stable r11026 <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~launchpad-pqm/launchpad/stable/revision/11026>.