If I click on the advanced search from "Issues" I am not presented with a way to select a search based on the new components listing.
http://drupal.org/project/issues/search/

However, if I am already within a 'project area', I can click on advanced search and be presented with component search options.
http://drupal.org/project/issues/search/webmasters

In fact, unless a user does an advanced search from a specific area, they may never be aware of components because they do not appear within the listings or search results of the issues queue.
http://drupal.org/project/issues/

1) Can we add a way to allow the initial issues search to select 'project' first, then load the apprpriate advanced search; or perhaps use javascript to load the appropriate sub-form based on the user's selection of 'Project'.

2) And also add 'components' to the filters on the issues listings pages.

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yoroy’s picture

yoroy commented

Yes please, this would help a lot. Usability touches Drupal as a whole, across core and contrib as well, being able to filter on it would help a lot with keeping tabs on what's happening in the whole Drupal universe.

+1

AjK’s picture

AjK commented

These requests should realistically be filed against the project issue queue. I believe dww is happy to receive feature patches, but without that sort of attention not a lot of activity is going on with it at the moment. Dww put a massive amount of time into the module a year or so ago (along with a few others) but I think it's time other/more people stepped up to help.

Feel free to start submitting patches!

AjK’s picture

AjK commented
Priority: Critical » Normal

Oh, and it's not "critical" as that priority is reserved for "it's doesn't work". It does work, just not how you like it. Changing to "normal"

yoroy’s picture

yoroy commented

Ok, thanks for clarifying. Thing is, this is mostly a feature request from non-code-writing contributors: usability experts and ux designers. I know project.module needs help big time. We don't have those skills though.

heather’s picture

heather commented
Title: Issues components selection to appear on the Advanced search page & filters » Usability: Issues components selection to appear on the Advanced search page & filters

I neglected to append Usability: to the title

dww’s picture

dww
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Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

You can't have component and version filters on the site-wide issue queues, since those are specific to each project. There's no way to make that UI make any sense at all. However, the new views2-based issue queues add those to every per-project issue listing, so they should be easier to find and make use of.