dependent field sorting

[Jens Seidel]

On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 08:03:10AM -0700, Robby Stephenson wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 April 2007, Jens Seidel wrote:
> > Yesterday I worked on proper sorting of dependent columns.
> 
> I just added a comparison class for dependent fields. Give it a shot and see 
> if it does what you'd expect.

Thanks Robby. I tried a very similar solution but didn't have sufficient
spare time and don't know the data structures well enough to finished it.

I hoped to find errors in your code which I could fix but failed :-)
It seems to work well. I even tried to sort a column containing a dependent
field and deleted this field (without changing the sorting order) but got no
crash.

I wonder why you first check for title formatting instead of dependent
fields when creating a ListViewComparison. But it seems it is not
possible to enable title formatting for dependent fields so it is OK.

I also tried to create a report to test sorting there too and noticed
that sorting is not yet fixed there. Also sorting groups in the left
widget does not yet respect dependent fields. Nevertheless I find the
current solution useful.

I selected "three column" report, waited two minutes until tellico
processed the collection and got finally: "This template is only
suitable for video collections". You can do it better: first check this
before you start processing data!

Thanks again,
Jens