Ticket sorting functionality. Needs to be refactored, but works.

1 files changed, 29 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/help/app/helpers/tickets_helper.rb b/help/app/helpers/tickets_helper.rb
index c683be3..bd2c069 100644
--- a/help/app/helpers/tickets_helper.rb
+++ b/help/app/helpers/tickets_helper.rb
@@ -5,11 +5,39 @@ module TicketsHelper
   end
 
   def admin
+    # do we not want this set for non-admins? the param will be viewable in the url
     params[:admin_status] || 'all'
   end
 
+  def order
+    params[:sort_order] || 'updated_at_desc'
+  end
+
   def link_to_status(new_status)
     label = new_status + ' issues'
-    link_to label, :open_status => new_status, :admin_status => admin
+    link_to label, :open_status => new_status, :admin_status => admin, :sort_order => order
+  end
+
+  def link_to_order(order_field)
+    if order.start_with?(order_field)
+      # link for currently-filtered field. Link to other direction of this field.
+      if order.end_with? 'asc'
+        direction = 'desc'
+        icon_direction = 'up'
+      else
+        direction = 'asc'
+        icon_direction = 'down'
+      end
+      arrow = content_tag(:i, '', class: 'icon-arrow-'+ icon_direction)
+    else
+      # for not-currently-filtered field, don't display an arrow, and link to descending direction
+      arrow = ''
+      direction = 'desc'
+    end
+
+    link_to :sort_order => order_field + '_at_' + direction, :open_status => status, :admin_status => admin do
+      arrow + order_field + ' at'
+    end
   end
+
 end