Reported upstream: https://secure.phabricator.com/T6634
The auto-suggest for projects should show more items, currently I can't even see all of the hits for "wikidata". Currently 5 are shown. How about 15?
Resolved
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | • mmodell | T75737 Project suggestion dropdown should show more items than 5 | |||
| Resolved | • mmodell | T89830 Next Phabricator upgrade on 2015-05-06 | |||
| Resolved | • KLans_WMF | T95469 Test phabricator sprint extension updates |
I can see the point for this. The limit of 5 looks quite arbitrary, good for regular organizations but maybe not for this one. Of course you can find all the "wikidata" projects using the Projects search
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/query/HNQCdZlXmVjC/#R
but we cannot expects regular users to do so when reporting a bug.
(There are not five but six projects mentioning Wikidata; then again, we might have other popular names>)
I propose to file a task upstream. The fix seems to be simple.
I'll just paste the public IRC conversation:
Nov 24 23:44:28 <valhallasw`cloud> twentyafterfour: mm, though it would be in https://github.com/phacility/phabricator/blob/21dca29c5f2929064cfe969cfd4bd417df5621bf/src/applications/project/typeahead/PhabricatorProjectDatasource.php, but apparently not
Nov 24 23:45:58 <valhallasw`cloud> it's parent object https://github.com/phacility/phabricator/blob/21dca29c5f2929064cfe969cfd4bd417df5621bf/src/applications/typeahead/datasource/PhabricatorTypeaheadDatasource.php#L11 has a setLimit, though
Nov 25 01:05:14 <epriestley> twentyafterfour: this is the controlling limit for most typeheads/tokenizers:
Nov 25 01:05:14 <epriestley> https://secure.phabricator.com/diffusion/P/browse/master/webroot/rsrc/externals/javelin/lib/control/typeahead/source/TypeaheadSource.js;37d14a85b38f80e9c0c8b54ef208baffc7b910de$79
Nov 25 01:05:28 <epriestley> There's no way to globally bump it up, though. You could set that to 10 and nearly everything will respect it.
Nov 25 01:05:39 <epriestley> (A few override the default to set a different limit.)
Nov 25 01:11:30 <twentyafterfour> epriestley: Thanks! It's one specific instance that I'm mostly interested in but a global bump might be good
Nov 25 01:13:09 <twentyafterfour> wouldn't there be server-side limit? It doesn't look like the javelin code passes the result count to the server in the request...
Nov 25 01:23:23 <epriestley> I thiink it's derived from that display limit.
Nov 25 01:24:17 <epriestley> (There's also a second limit (which valhallasw`cloud linked earlier) but that's the limit on the number of tokens which are allowed in a field like "Subscribers:" -- some like a task "Assignee" permit only a single user, while others like "Subscribers" allow an unlimited number.)
https://secure.phabricator.com/T3670 (Add subprojects) is the intended real fix for this problem. I want to do that first and make sure it's still an issue before changing constants.
See also https://secure.phabricator.com/T1906, for possibly adding a more browse/exploration-oriented UI to project selection.
Suprojects is an important Phabricator feature request from a Wikimedia point of view. Let's be patient (and/or proactive).
I don't think we are going to work actively on this in the short term. We will wait for upstream.
Mmm... I'm not sure what changed, but typing "wiki" in the top bar search provides 10 suggestions now. For Wikidata I get 7.
Resolved?
Nothing changed. The limit was always different for the top search bar and the edit task project autocomplete.
As a workaround, execute
JX.TypeaheadSource.prototype.setMaximumResultCount(100)
in the javascript console (or a userscript).
Doh, sorry. This is what happens when you land here after digging into two search-related tasks.
I lost track of it and had to dig back through my IRC logs, so pasting here. @Quiddity made https://openuserjs.org/scripts/quiddity-wp/wikimedia_phabricator_suggestion_expander for convenience.
onwiki links at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Team_Practices_Group/Phabricator_tips/Maniphest#Autocomplete_limit (i can't see the Chrome version through, P2444 is access-restricted?)