Change Maniphest AdvancedSearch default for "Group by" to "None" and for "Order by" to "Updated"
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	Sep 17 2025, 10:31 AM

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When I use https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/advanced/ , I would file in the Query for example: Query: wgExtensionDirectory and immediately press ⏎. The resulting search gives me bunch of results that are grouped and ordered by Priority.

I then change it to:
Group By: None
Order By: Date Updated (Latest First)

Press ⏎ again and get what I expected: tasks recently acted on that contains the term.

I am not sure there is much point in grouping by Priority (and when doing so, why explicitly ordering by priority given that within a given priority group, all tasks have .. the same priority).

I suggest changing the default to order by latest date updated and not grouping ?

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	Change default Maniphest Search values for "Group by" and "Order by"	repos/phabricator/phabricator!102	aklapper	T404843	wmf/stable

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Mentioned In: T187587: Improve default parameters of default Maniphest global saved search queries
T417657: Deploy Phab/Phorge 2026-02-17
T407244: Deploy Phabricator/Phorge 2025-10-14

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hashar created this task.Sep 17 2025, 10:31 AM

FWIW, my personal opinion on this is something like:

Group By: Yeah, I can't recall a time where I've wanted to group the results by task priority (or by any of the other "Group By" options). On my personal default Maniphest search query, I have it set to None - I'd be happy with this becoming the default :)
Order By: I'd also be happy with the current default for this setting being changed. Personally I mostly use a combination of Relevance & Creation (Newest First) for this option; but to be fair, Date Updated (Latest First) sounds like a better default than Priority, so I probably wouldn't mind too much if that was changed to be the default.

On a side note, as a change to these defaults might affect the workflows of folks who often use the Maniphest search feature, maybe it might be worth an email to wikitech-l to advertise this task?

Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE awarded a token.Sep 17 2025, 11:19 AM

I agree that Priority as a default in our installation makes less sense than in that unknown organization which uses Phorge and always prioritizes every single ticket.

Implementing this via a downstream patch seems pretty maintainable:

diff --git a/src/applications/maniphest/query/ManiphestTaskQuery.php b/src/applications/maniphest/query/ManiphestTaskQuery.php
index 3b45c26f73..15c743df07 100644
--- a/src/applications/maniphest/query/ManiphestTaskQuery.php
+++ b/src/applications/maniphest/query/ManiphestTaskQuery.php
@@ -876,9 +876,9 @@ final class ManiphestTaskQuery extends PhabricatorCursorPagedPolicyAwareQuery {
     $orders = array_select_keys(
       $orders,
       array(
-        'priority',
         'updated',
         'outdated',
+        'priority',
         'newest',
         'oldest',
         'closed',
diff --git a/src/applications/maniphest/query/ManiphestTaskSearchEngine.php b/src/applications/maniphest/query/ManiphestTaskSearchEngine.php
index 40ea471916..7cedef2dff 100644
--- a/src/applications/maniphest/query/ManiphestTaskSearchEngine.php
+++ b/src/applications/maniphest/query/ManiphestTaskSearchEngine.php
@@ -340,21 +340,21 @@ final class ManiphestTaskSearchEngine
 
   private function getGroupOptions() {
     return array(
+      'none'     => pht('None'),
       'priority' => pht('Priority'),
       'assigned' => pht('Assigned'),
       'status'   => pht('Status'),
       'project'  => pht('Project'),
-      'none'     => pht('None'),
     );
   }
 
   private function getGroupValues() {
     return array(
+      'none'     => ManiphestTaskQuery::GROUP_NONE,
       'priority' => ManiphestTaskQuery::GROUP_PRIORITY,
       'assigned' => ManiphestTaskQuery::GROUP_OWNER,
       'status'   => ManiphestTaskQuery::GROUP_STATUS,
       'project'  => ManiphestTaskQuery::GROUP_PROJECT,
-      'none'     => ManiphestTaskQuery::GROUP_NONE,
     );
   }

aklapper opened https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/phabricator/phabricator/-/merge_requests/102

Change default Maniphest Search values for "Group by" and "Order by"

aklapper merged https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/phabricator/phabricator/-/merge_requests/102

Change default Maniphest Search values for "Group by" and "Order by"

Aklapper edited projects, added: Phabricator (2025-10-14), Release-Engineering-Team (Doing 😎); removed: Patch-For-Review, Release-Engineering-Team (Priority Backlog 📥), Phabricator.Oct 10 2025, 7:25 PM

Aklapper claimed this task.Oct 14 2025, 3:38 PM

This got deployed today.
Verified by going to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/advanced/ and looking at the "Group By" and "Order By" fields.

That is wonderful, thank you @Aklapper for the quick implementation :]

This is buggy when passing URI parameters, e.g. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/?projectPHIDs=PHID-PROJ-pjhy3ymh5pitgp2jflcb&statuses=open()#R still groups by Priority, but per each page in pagination. That's not good.
I wonder if a fix somewhere would be similar to https://we.phorge.it/rPa27f9cf22a071aad9d3cafd7a9a57a172c26be2d but haven't taken a look yet.

Aklapper edited projects, added: Release-Engineering-Team (Doing 😎); removed: Release-Engineering-Team (Priority Backlog 📥).Feb 10 2026, 1:48 PM

In T404843#11502668, @Aklapper wrote:

This is buggy when passing URI parameters

Fixed in https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/phabricator/phabricator/-/commit/2dbdd23db0ceb38cea0bb38c72e0f246f005c015

Aklapper mentioned this in T417657: Deploy Phab/Phorge 2026-02-17.Feb 17 2026, 4:42 PM

and deployed

thcipriani added a project: Essential-Work.Mar 20 2026, 10:13 PM

Aklapper mentioned this in T187587: Improve default parameters of default Maniphest global saved search queries.Apr 28 2026, 1:15 PM

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