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Bug 321838

Summary:	add support for sorting by original query ordering in task list
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	Chris Beams <cbeams>
Component:	Mylyn	Assignee:	Project Inbox <mylyn-triaged>
Status:	CLOSED MOVED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	angvoz.dev, jacek.jaroczynski, kentarou, sam.davis, steffen.pingel
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Macintosh
OS:	Mac OS X
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	211011

Description Chris Beams

2010-08-05 05:50:49 EDT

This issue uses Jira as a specific example, but I believe the functionality is general to Mylyn and applicable to any connector.

1) Create and save a Jira filter with an ORDER BY clause, e.g.: ORDER BY votes
2) Create a new Mylyn query and synchronize with that new filter
3) Notice that the order of the issues in the task list does not respect the ORDER BY clause, but rather Mylyn's default by-priority ordering.

Would it be possible to preserve query ordering such that this expectation is no longer violated?

Comment 1 Chris Beams

2010-08-05 05:53:19 EDT

I accidentally filed this under ACTF.  Please move to Mylyn, thanks.

Comment 2 Steffen Pingel

2010-10-25 12:47:09 EDT

I could see that being useful. There are other cases as well, e.g. subtasks that are arranged in a specific order. It would probably be possible to support this globally, i.e. to show the original order when "None" is selected in the sorting preferences, but I assume you would want to be able to select this on a per query basis?

Comment 3 Chris Beams

2010-10-25 16:28:51 EDT

I think I'd like to see this behavior 'on by default', i.e.: always sort tasks in the order they came back from the repository.  However, if I attempt to manually re-sort the task list, it should allow me to override.  That might be inordinately complex to support, but it's the ideal.

On this same topic, I cannot seem to re-order any tasks in my task list, for any kind of query or category (local tasks or remote).  This means that the most basic use case of prioritizing a list of tasks based on hand-picked order (e.g.: backlog-style management) cannot be done.  Am I missing something?

Comment 4 Andrew Gvozdev

2010-10-28 10:20:40 EDT

I am trying to pull the query from Bugzilla for "most voted" bugs. Obviously I want to see the most voted on the top and I got "order=bugs.votes" in my query. This one is different from my other queries for which I already set my favorite sorting order globally. Perhaps Mylyn could inspect the query and keep the original order in case of ordering clause is there (for known repository types)? Or there could be an advanced flag "do not sort" in query properties?

Comment 5 Steffen Pingel

2011-01-04 14:26:35 EST

Yes, I think it would the most sense to make that an option in the query dialog. 

Manual sorting of the task list is currently not supported: bug 247310.

Comment 6 Chris Beams

2012-05-15 15:30:33 EDT

Just a ping about this issue.  Would still love to see original repository ordering respected in Mylyn.  Thanks.

Comment 7 Steffen Pingel

2013-01-21 13:31:04 EST

*** Bug 398640 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Eclipse Webmaster

2022-11-15 11:45:08 EST

Mylyn has been restructured, and our issue tracking has moved to GitHub [1].

We are closing ~14K Bugzilla issues to give the new team a fresh start. If you feel that this issue is still relevant, please create a new one on GitHub.

[1] https://github.com/orgs/eclipse-mylyn