Issue 72774

Summary:	Search only sorts "by relevance"; makes searching recent content challenging
Product:	Infrastructure	Reporter:	mwtoews <mwtoews>
Component:	Website general issues	Assignee:	AOO issues mailing list <issues>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	Trivial
Priority:	P3	CC:	issues
Version:	current
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Latest Confirmation in:	---
Developer Difficulty:	---

Description mwtoews 2006-12-20 02:25:44 UTC

Hi. I find the results returned from http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/Search
difficult to use, particularly since I cannot sort any of the columns, such as
"Posted at", and can only view them "Sorted by relevance" with no available
option for any sorting field.

My request is to introduce sorting to the search results. This will help us find
a needle in a haystack of information.

HTML sorting can be implemented by allowing the header of each column to be
"clickable", so that the first click sorts acceding, while a second click sorts
descending.  This is fairly common, and has been implemented, for example, by
Apache's "Index" page for a directory listing. Certainly, the sorting for the
"1-5 of about 12,579 search results" would have to be done on the server side,
then sent back to the client in XHTML, as it is now.

Comment 1 beginner2 2009-05-26 16:00:22 UTC

Yes, I also think that it would be great if one could sort the results by
relevance, date , last post, and amount of votes. So one could see if there is
already an issue you searched for with some votes. See what was the last issue
and things like this.