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exact typeahead for archived projects low priory match
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Usually if there is an archived project Foo then tying in exactly Foo will match that project in the typeahead, but otherwise other projects with "foo" in them somewhere will be displayed. I have an archived project called Foo and then several projects like Foo1, Foo2, Foo3, etc., some of which are active. Typing in Foo matches the active projects, but not the archived exact match.

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I ended up un-archiving and re-arching just to search for it.

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Here's a workaround:

  • Click .
  • Type "foo".
  • Select "Foo (Archived)" from the list.

Is that reasonable?

Yes. :-/

FWIW I don't think I had clicked on since first testing out typeahead and had come to associate it with "this is a magic typeahead box" not "click for more options".

epriestley claimed this task.

Yeah, it feels a bit like the "baby's first typeahead" button to me (since it didn't exist for so long, and is usually useless if you know what you're going to select) and it usually takes me a minute to remember it's there.

Another quasi-solution is to rename foo to foo (archived) literally.

We could tackle this in other ways, but I think the behavior is reasonable overall, this situation is presumably rare, and even the unarchive + rearchive workaround is reasonable-ish if you don't have a direct line upstream to the Elite Phabricator Protips hotline.