Possible Minor Bug: User-selected sort column not maintained after automatic refresh

jhg

I notice that when I select a sort column in any display that refreshes, the sort order reverts to the default when the display refreshes, even though the sort indicator still identifies the column I selected.

Here's an example in the Diagnostics/Routes page. I selected to sort by Gateway, but after one refresh it reverts to sorting by address while leaving the sort indicator on the Gateway column.

planedrop

@jhg I too am seeing this on the latest version. Probably worth filling out a redmine for it.

jhg

@planedrop Done https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/15180

planedrop

Awesome, thanks!

jhg

@planedrop It was closed as Not A Bug, a decision with which I disagree. This is a limitation of the library being used and is a UI problem that should be fixed.

planedrop

@jhg I agree, I guess it's really minor but yeah should be something that is addressed IMO.

DeLiver

Anyone try the NTP Status page sorting? Near immediate reset to initial sort order. Totally unfriendly.

planedrop

@DeLiver Do you mean NTP logs or status? Status, for most setups, should be a super short list.

Or maybe I'm misunderstanding?

DeLiver

@planedrop said in Possible Minor Bug: User-selected sort column not maintained after automatic refresh:

@DeLiver Do you mean NTP logs or status? Status, for most setups, should be a super short list.

Or maybe I'm misunderstanding?

Status, as stated. Short list or no, it's an annoyance.

jhg

@planedrop The problem occurs on any page that auto-updates and also provides sorting by different columns. It's more than a minor annoyance, and should be relatively easy to fix. This doesn't happen globally across the Internet, just on pfSense.

planedrop

@jhg I mean, I really don't consider it more than a minor issue, it's not a huge problem by any means IMO.

Additionally though, if it's such an easy thing to fix, this is open source, why don't you fix it? By that I mean, maybe it's not as easy as it seems, many times that's how software development works, fixing something that is small can take tons of time and break other things.

I still agree this does need to be addressed, but it would not be on the top of my list either.

planedrop

@DeLiver I'll test again, so far it hasn't done it for me on the NTP status page though, which is only 3 entries long for me.