project name picker search / vocabulary is hard/impossible to use (too many results on exact searches)
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Launchpad itself |
Fix Released
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High
|
William Grant | ||
Bug Description
Symptoms
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In popup searches that require selecting a project/
Most of the results seem to have nothing in common with the search string (particularly for searches for 'launchpad').
If too many hits are found 'undefined' is shown and nothing can be used. This is particularly annoying when an exact match exists.
This is a result of Launchpad's user base growing and exceeding some early design assumptions.
Workarounds
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In the case of reassigning a bug, you can click the drop-down marker on the far left side of the bug task row and type in the target you want to change to.
Related branches
- j.c.sackett (community): Approve
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Diff: 352 lines (+176/-16)5 files modifiedlib/lp/bugs/javascript/bugtask_index.js (+2/-2)
lib/lp/registry/tests/test_person_vocabularies.py (+99/-4)
lib/lp/registry/tests/test_product_vocabularies.py (+26/-0)
lib/lp/registry/vocabularies.py (+45/-10)
lib/lp/services/features/flags.py (+4/-0)
| Mary Gardiner (puzzlement) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in launchpad: | |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| Changed in launchpad-foundations: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| tags: |
added: lp-registry project-picker projects removed: lp-foundations |
| description: | updated |
| Changed in launchpad: | |
| importance: | Low → High |
| tags: | added: disclosure |
| summary: |
- The string "launchpad" is hard to find in the Projects search + project name picker search / vocabulary is hard/impossible to use (too + many results on exact searches) |
| description: | updated |
| description: | updated |
| description: | updated |
| Jonathan Lange (jml) wrote | #2 |
| Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote | #3 |
| Changed in launchpad: | |
| assignee: | nobody → Ian Booth (wallyworld) |
| Changed in launchpad: | |
| assignee: | Ian Booth (wallyworld) → William Grant (wgrant) |
| Changed in launchpad: | |
| status: | Triaged → In Progress |
| Launchpad QA Bot (lpqabot) wrote | #4 |
| tags: | added: qa-needstesting |
| Changed in launchpad: | |
| status: | In Progress → Fix Committed |
| tags: |
added: qa-ok removed: qa-needstesting |
| Changed in launchpad: | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
| tags: |
added: target-picker removed: project-picker |
I'd go so far as to say that the project search pop-up is rendered so useless by this almost-