Fix activity search function

[jeancochrane]

Overview

Update the DataTables configuration on search views to allow searching on username and content type fields.

Handles #52.

Testing Instructions

• Make sure you have some edits that will show up in the activity search views
  • If you don't, just edit any document and save it without adjusting any fields
• Visit the global activity search view at http://localhost:8000/activity/ and confirm you can run searches
• Navigate to the detail view for a document that has changed (you can do this by following the link in the global activity search view), scroll down to the activity table at the bottom of the page, and confirm that you can run searches

[derekeder]

Sorting works as expected!

I did notice a formatting issue for the time. Perhaps its just missing the leading zero for the minutes:

This affects both the main activity page, as well as the activity detail on each document.

Question: this seems to work well for a small number of edits. what happens when the list of actions on the main activity page grows to 1000+? Will the page try and load them all?

[jeancochrane]

I did notice a formatting issue for the time. Perhaps its just missing the leading zero for the minutes:

Great catch! I switched the minutes directive from %-M to %M in c1f16b5 to ensure that minutes are 0-padded in timestamps.

Question: this seems to work well for a small number of edits. what happens when the list of actions on the main activity page grows to 1000+? Will the page try and load them all?

We're loading search results from the backend using django-datatables-view, so queries should be performant even at large volumes. DataTables' Show X entries dropdown will control the number of results returned for any given query, so we can always expect queries to be paginated.

[derekeder]

Looks like this updated the individual document formatting, but still seeing the missing zero on the top level activity page:

[jeancochrane]

Totally forgot that I had to define those two pages with separate views. I adjusted the other view and confirmed they both looked good to me in 7aca334, let me know how it looks to you!

[derekeder]

Looks good! Aprroved