Add the Ability to Sort to Issue and Merge Request Advanced Search Scope: UI

Problem to solve

When searching for Issues and Merge Request sometimes you don't want to see the most accurate result. You might want to see the the newest result.

Now you can change from Relevant results to newest or oldest results. As we add more filtering in the future this will be even more valuable.

Intended users

• Parker (Product Manager)
• Delaney (Development Team Lead)
• Sasha (Software Developer)

Proposal

Add Sort Options with Sort by:

1. Most relevant
2. Newest
3. Oldest

"Most relevant" will be the default as this is what Elasticsearch's default is and what we use now.

Further details

We should also Add IDs to track this usage. The variation in this usage along with other factors can help idiciate Rank issues. For example rank should include a freshness variable. If we increase the weight of that variable we will Likely see a decrease in % of searches that change the default sort over time.

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