We have a collection of related projects:
Search-and-Discovery
Search-and-Discovery-Cirrus-Sprint
Search-and-Discovery-OpenStreetMap-Sprint
...etc.
When typing into the Search bar at the top of phab, things work reasonably. Typing "Discovery", for example, lists about 7 projects, and one of them is Search-and-Discovery.
However, when typing into the Projects field, such as when creating a task, entering "Discovery" only lists 5 projects. That is a known issue, and wouldn't be a problem, except that it lists all the Sprint projects, and not the main Search-and-Discovery. I tried renaming it to Search-and-Discovery-Department, hoping that it would be sorted alphabetically near the top, and thus be in 5 that are shown. Sadly, that did not work.
The auto-complete rule really should be: If there is an exact match, put that first. Then list partial matches alphabetically.
If that's not possible for some reason, then a pure alphabetical sort would at least allow this case to work, via delicate project naming.
This is a pretty big deal, because right now it is VERY difficult to add tasks to the main Search-and-Discovery project. If it can't be fixed quickly, I'll have to rename all the sprint projects.