921752 - buglist column sort doesn't use full value

Status: NEW

(bugzilla.mozilla.org :: User Interface, defect, P3)

Description

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

BMO has a number of Product items whose names being with "Firefox": Firefox, Firefox for Android, Firefox for Metro, Firefox Affiliates, etc.

If you have a list of bugs and sort them by Product, they all just show up as "Firefox" (which I assume is for brevity). But the problem is that the sort order does not seem to be using the full product name. So within the sorted list, bugs in the cluster of "Firefox" are randomly ordered for the full product name. That makes it hard to look at a bug list and see how it breaks down by Product.

Here's a list of bugs from https://blog.mozilla.org/community/2013/09/16/firefox-24-new-contributors/ which demonstrates the problem:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=829862%2C855741%2C875449%2C730626%2C875135%2C876952%2C877908%2C877965%2C878435%2C878444%2C878495%2C878501%2C878520%2C879033%2C882012%2C882514%2C870007%2C838692%2C726015%2C869331%2C875246%2C875608%2C662247%2C869725%2C875737%2C872497%2C879374%2C875666%2C879316%2C408251%2C843667%2C879304%2C879952%2C879954%2C882890%2C838331%2C849072%2C852009%2C873486%2C880371%2C734061%2C875297%2C867567%2C871524%2C873447%2C877985%2C871555%2C867914%2C763483%2C773159%2C794687%2C829603%2C865312%2C866880%2C872003%2C874205%2C879088%2C875852%2C861546%2C772321%2C833382%2C875169%2C882817%2C883843%2C884507%2C884879%2C869703%2C563884%2C841736%2C785156%2C807688%2C871514%2C871938%2C874641%2C790775%2C860089%2C884585%2C608180%2C875287%2C867902%2C868306%2C872758%2C852411%2C818393%2C874791%2C875243%2C876553%2C877409%2C862765%2C869845%2C873453%2C868952%2C875409&list_id=8015130

Comment 1

[Frédéric Buclin]

This is not surprising. The JS code used in bmo to sort columns uses strings displayed in columns. So it has no way to know what the full strings are unless it starts looking at the tooltip associated with each value. The tooltips contain the full strings.

Comment 2

[Kohei Yoshino [:kohei]]

This odd behaviour will be solved as part of the upcoming search results page overhaul.

Comment 3

[Kohei Yoshino [:kohei]]

I think the reason behind this is simple: CSS text-overflow: ellipsis; was not available when Bugzilla was initially developed so these labels had to be trimmed server side for narrower columns.