Search for sources in admin interface doesn't include volume

[mrustow]

While attempting to correlate some Goitein editions with the correct "volume" of unpublished transcriptions (e.g., changing "S. D. Goitein, Unpublished transcriptions" to "S. D. Goitein, Unpublished transcriptions. (ENA)," I noticed two issues:

1. It's not possible to search with the full string
2. The dropdown list isn't alphabetized.

This works fine:

This still works fine:

Add the period and it no longer works:

Delete the period and add the desired "volume" name and it no longer works:

And it would be superb if these were alphabetized.

Thanks!

[rlskoeser]

Following up on this:

• The source volume field was not configured as searchable, which is an oversight which I've remedied in eebe235
• The search is based on the fields in the model that we configure to be searchable (i.e., title, author first name, author last name, etc); it does not search on the string version that we compile out of those fields when we combine them for display. Can you explain why you're trying to search on the full string?
• default ordering for sources is title, then year; ordering is case-sensitive. I don't have it set to order by author by default because there's some extra overhead in determining the first author. We could override that ordering for the admin site if it would make big difference. What ordering would be ideal, and how important is it?

[richmanrachel]

@rlskoeser - I think we've been searching on the string because that's what we see in the other footnote boxes, so it's the most intuitive (as author appears first).

What you've described is really helpful (and wow, yes, just poked around a bit and it works so much better!). I guess I'm wondering if we should just provide help text/training for how to use the search?

[rlskoeser]

@richmanrachel that approach makes more sense to me! It's always better for users to have a better understanding of how the systems work.

I'm not sure if there's a place for me to add help text here, but LMK what you think would be best and I'll look.

[richmanrachel]

I'll add a tip in the PGP Database Instructions and add a note on Slack for now!

[rlskoeser]

Great. So can we relabel this to reflect the bug I fixed (search for source doesn't work if you include volume) and we can close?