Reporter Shared Folders Do Not Sort Logically

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Marking confirmed. It would be nice if folders were also sorted alphabetically for clarity.

This is not necessarily a critical issue, but sort order directly affects workflows for users. Even if there is not a patch for 2.2, this should be addressed in later versions.

This is probably a bitesize bug for someone familiar with Perl. I think Open-ILS/src/perlmods/lib/OpenILS/Application/Reporter.pm is the starting point.

I took a look at this today starting from Reporter.pm, which looks like it simply needs one change on line 79 from:

         order_by => { $class => 'name ASC'}

To:

         order_by => { $class => ['username ASC', 'name ASC']}

However, username isn't a thing and I am not knowledgeable in how to reference username for the purposes of sorting within this file!

The current sort order isn't random however, it bases the order of user folders on the sort order of their respective folders. For instance:

zUser15
  !folder1
  !folder2
  !folder4
  dailies
  monthlys
  ztesting
zUser01
  !folder3
  afolder
  2folders
aUser00
  abcfolder
  abcfolder2
  abcfolder3
dUser15
  buttons
  hats

It places zUser15 first because they have more high sorting folders that zUser01 and so on. If 'owner ASC' is placed in the sort it sorts by the id of the user which doesn't properly resolve this issue.