Add "Last updated by" filter

[finnlewis]

@AWearring mentioned they have a filter for 'Last updated by' which is not necessarily the author, but the person who last edited it. This could be a nice addition too!

Originally posted by @finnlewis in #855 (comment)

[AWearring]

@markconroy Might be worth added a last updated by column to the view to so that the list makes sense after filtering?

[willguv]

Hi @AWearring thanks for the suggestion - could you post a screenshot of how this looks please?

There's a lot of columns in this view and am wondering if there's too many. Thanks

[AWearring]

@willguv this is what /admin/content looks like on the North Kesteven site, I've highlighted 2 custom columns that aren't be standard. We don't have both "Created by" and "Updated by", because who created it is as relevant to us

[willguv]

I'm wondering whether "last updated by" is more useful than author

If the page has just been created, the author is the person who has last updated it

If the page has been changed a few times, the person who last updated it is most useful

Thoughts @AWearring?

[AWearring]

@willguv
Yes, that is what the thinking was here (in West Lindsey, North Kesteven and Rutland).
The frustration we had with "author" was that this would always be the original page creator - who may have left, or may have been temporarily assigned to migrated content.
"last updated by" would always be current and updated each time the content changed - the potential downside could be if you have editors that just fix minor content issues (such as spelling/grammatical mistakes).
We decided quite quickly to drop the "author" column and only have "updated by" - we also decided to drop "last" to reduce the word count on the column header.

[willguv]

Thanks @AWearring, so I think the work is

On /admin/content

• Change 'Author' filter to 'Updated by'
• Heading order needs minor changes

Title
Content type
Updated by [check wording]
Update time [check wording]
Status
Operations

The same changes need to be applied to /admin/content/media to be consistent

[willguv]

@benhillsjones would be great to hear your thoughts on this too - happy to precis if needed