650173 - Bugzilla 4 priority names can't be distinguished in search results

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Bugzilla :: Query/Bug List, defect)

Description

[Yavor Nikolov]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0
Build Identifier: 4.0

Bugzilla 4.0 has introduced new priority names (Highest, High, Normal, Low, Lowest instead of the previous P1,...,P5). The problem is that in search results Priority column is abbreviated up to 3-rd character
Hig - not clear if it's Highest or High
Low - not clear if it's Lowest or Low


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Setup Bugzilla 4.0 from scratch or if upgrading from old release - rename priority names to Lowest ... Highest (instead of Px)
2.Run a search (make sure Priority column is included)

Actual Results:  
Priority column is abbreviated up to 3-rd character
Hig - not clear if it's Highest or High
Low - not clear if it's Lowest or Low


Expected Results:  
Priority column content to uniquely identify to given priority. E.g.:
* Highe or Highest - for Highest
* Lowes or Lowest - for Lowest


Workaround:
In template/en/default/list/table.html.tmpl, there's a line :
   "priority"             => { maxlength => 3 , title => "Pri" } ,
Change the "3" to whatever you want it to be and you're done.

Changed to 8 - works fine (full names). Using 5 would be enough but is a bit "ugly".

Comment 1

[Frédéric Buclin]

(In reply to comment #0)
> Change the "3" to whatever you want it to be and you're done.
> Changed to 8 - works fine (full names). Using 5 would be enough but is a bit
> "ugly".

The problem is that the required min length depends on the language, but also on the customized list of priorities. Hovering the column displays the full name, though.

Comment 2

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

I think for our default language we should at least be sensible, though.

Comment 3

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Attachment: v1

Comment 4

[Teemu Mannermaa (:wicked)]

This affects 3.6 branch too but not 3.4 branch. This is low risk but we probably can't still fix this there too. Asking approval3.6 so a clear decision can be stored for reference.

Comment 5

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Yeah, I don't want to mess with templates on the sec branches unless it's a sec issue.

Comment 6

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Committing to: bzr+ssh://bzr.mozilla.org/bugzilla/trunk/                       
modified template/en/default/list/table.html.tmpl
Committed revision 7785.

Committing to: bzr+ssh://bzr.mozilla.org/bugzilla/4.0/                         
modified template/en/default/list/table.html.tmpl
Committed revision 7575.