Apps missing in some store categories

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

It's not that the apps are missing (they do show in search results as you said), but that they are not highlighted, and some departments do not currently have highlights; though, even with highlights, all apps in a department won't necessarily appear in a highlight.

Just to clarify, the department landing page should show all apps in that department (including any child departments)

https://sites.google.com/a/canonical.com/unity8dash/scopes/store/department-landing-page

This is already possible via the search API:

{
  "_links": {
    "first": {
      "href": "https://search.apps.ubuntu.com/api/v1/search?q=department%3A%22games%22&page=1&size=2"
    },
    "last": {
      "href": "https://search.apps.ubuntu.com/api/v1/search?q=department%3A%22games%22&page=35&size=2"
    },
    "next": {
      "href": "https://search.apps.ubuntu.com/api/v1/search?q=department%3A%22games%22&page=2&size=2"
    },
    "self": {
      "href": "https://search.apps.ubuntu.com/api/v1/search?q=department%3A%22games%22&page=1&size=2"
    },
    "curies": [
      {
        "templated": true,
        "name": "clickindex",
        "href": "https://search.apps.ubuntu.com/docs/relations.html{#rel}"
      }
    ]
  },
  "_embedded": {
    "clickindex:recommendation": [],
    "clickindex:package": [
      {
        "price": 0,
        "icon_url": "https://myapps.developer.ubuntu.com/site_media/appmedia/2013/09/solitaire-games64.png",
        "title": "Solitaire Games",
        "name": "com.ubuntu.developer.labsin.solitaire-games",
        "_links": {
          "self": {
            "href": "https://search.apps.ubuntu.com/api/v1/package/com.ubuntu.developer.labsin.solitaire-games"
          }
        },
        "publisher": "Sam Segers",
        "content": "application"
      },
      {
        "price": 0,
        "icon_url": "https://myapps.developer.ubuntu.com/site_media/appmedia/2014/06/rockpaperscissorslogo_256.png",
        "title": "Rock Paper Scissors",
        "name": "com.ubuntu.developer.11ubuntucg.rockpaperscissors",
        "_links": {
          "self": {
            "href": "https://search.apps.ubuntu.com/api/v1/package/com.ubuntu.developer.11ubuntucg.rockpaperscissors"
          }
        },
        "publisher": "Brian Jaury",
        "content": "application"
      }
    ]
  }
}

However, I accept that this might not be optimal for a couple of reasons:

 - It requires a separate call to the index
 - It requires pagination support on the client

The second point can be mitigated by adjusting the size parameter accordingly to get things off the ground, but that's a temporary work-around - ultimately, the scope is going to have to support pagination, otherwise we'll be returning potentially thousands of results in a single response. It's not just the network usage that's a problem here, but the memory and processing overhead on the client.

The first point can be addressed on the server side by embedding clickindex:package resources in the department response. This is, in fact, the long-term plan. There was an unfortunate mix-up in terminology that led to "browsing search results by department" being misinterpreted as "browsing for arbitrary packages by department" - the former of which is not currently supported, the latter being expressly permitted - and so this embedding was de-scoped for RTM. I'm happy to do the work to support it now, with the caveat that pagination support will be added later.

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

This bug was fixed in the package unity-scope-click - 0.1+14.10.20140805-0ubuntu1

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unity-scope-click (0.1+14.10.20140805-0ubuntu1) utopic; urgency=medium

  [ Alejandro J. Cura (alecu) ]
  * New upstream release.
    - Show all remaining apps in the department. (LP: #1337864)
    - Apps category must be expanded and can't be collapsed. (LP: #1350611)
    - Search results category must be expanded. (LP: #1350612)
    - Change top 6 apps: phone, messages, contacts, camera, browser, clock.
      (LP: #1350614)
    - Remove "Apps" category title in searches. (LP: #1350619)
    - Use art not mascot for app icons in store searches. (LP: #1350624)
    - Updated translations.

  [ Ubuntu daily release ]
  * New rebuild forced
 -- Ubuntu daily release <email address hidden> Tue, 05 Aug 2014 13:11:42 +0000