Sorting doesn't work on distribution series language pages

Bug #98950 reported by Jeroen T. Vermeulen
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Triaged
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/feisty/+lang/nl

This returns over a thousand entries, neatly batched in pages of 50 each. Now click on the header of the leftmost column (template name). The template names on the first page span the alphabet, now neatly sorted from "a..." to "y..." Now go to the second page and do the same: here, too, the template names span the alphabet. Even the very last page of results has entries from "b..." to "z..."

A user who sorts results by clicking on a column header probably expects the entire result set to be re-sorted, not just the data that happens to be visible on the current page. The first page would show only templates whose names start with "a," and the last would only show the ones at the very end of the alphabet.

Changed in launchpad:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Carlos Perelló Marín (carlos) wrote :

This is nothing Rosetta specific, it happens with all tables using batching.

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

The only example URL given is one from Translations. I'm pretty sure each example will need to be reported and fixed as a separate bug (see for example bug 2714, bug 35325), because a table column header doesn't know which URL parameter determines that column's content. Even if someone came up with a general fix, that fix would still need to be applied separately to each existing table of batched results.

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Jeroen T. Vermeulen (jtv) wrote :

It turns out this bug is a duplicate of #28612 (mpt, thanks for digging it up). Yes, it is a general Launchpad problem but yes, fixing it will still affect each individual page as well.

I'm closing this one. A new bug, #192215, deals with the problem as found on this particular page.

description: updated
Changed in rosetta:
importance: Medium → High
summary: - Column sorting doesn't work on distribution series language pages
+ Sorting doesn't work on distribution series language pages
tags: added: ui
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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote :

We've a number of batches around that need this sort of thing done to them, but it isn't in the current roadmap. Patches appreciated, of course.

Changed in launchpad:
importance: High → Low
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