Can't change order of search results?

Operating system

Windows

Joplin version

3.2.11

Desktop version info

Joplin 3.2.11 (prod, win32)

ID client : a91f021f60304e55abb73da5ac8947e0
Version de Synchro : 3
Version du profil : 47
Trousseau supporté : Oui

Révision : 2fba101

Backup: 1.4.2
Freehand Drawing: 2.14.0

What issue do you have?

When I do a Note research (search engine at the top of the Notes column) ;
Let's say i have 80 notes with the research I did,

I'm not able to order the notes by date (any date column). when i click on the top column head , the arrow to order is appearing, buut nothing is ordered..

I guess the research results can't be ordered ?

That's a feature I used a lot with Evernote.. Let's say I want to find something I noted recently about "Wordpress", i just search for "Wordpress" then order by "more recent updated date first" and I can easily find my notes..

Thank you

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It seems the developer considers changing the search results order as unnecessary in favour of the existing super-duper sorting algorithm. A merge request which would have added the option to choose another order was rejected, see Search result order - #18 by JackGruber. :confused:

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Ordering search result by date is, accordind go me, the most useful feature of a document storage app !

I have thousands of documents, getting results ordered randomly does not make any sense!!

There are many scneario where you want to type a word then orderd by last updated date.

@laurent can you fix that ?

I would add, that :
1- it wouldnt involve any UI updates : the column are already there AND the column can already be clicked
2- it would even fix an existing UI bug, because right now we can click on the columns, and the "down/top" arrows move but the order of the results do not move.

Thank you!