Comics should be sorted differently?

[Jens Seidel]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 04:05:57PM -0700, Steve Juranich wrote:
> Jens Seidel wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 10:28:57AM -0700, Steve Juranich wrote:
> >> Am I the only one who thinks that the sorting criteria should
> >> be "Series/Issue" rather than "Series/Title" that it is currently?
> > 
> > the sorting is currently not perfect. But your problem has a trivial
> > solution:
> > 
> > Add a new field of type "dependant". Use the description
> > %{series}/%{title} and allow grouping for this field. Now you can select
> > this new field in the combobox or in the column view and sort entries as
> > wanted.
> 
> First, for clarification, I want "Series/Issue" and *NOT* "Series/Title".

OK.

> I already tried this, and that does sort "as advertised" in the list view,
> but I want this sorting order to be respected in the Icon View and the
> little side-panel on the left-hand side of the screen, and I can't seem to
> find out how to do that without modifying the code.

Ah, now I understand.

> Thanks for the suggestion, though.

Ready for the proper solution? Here is it:

Change the title field into a dependant field with description %{issue}.
Once you select Series in the combobox, you will get in the list view:
 Series1
   Issue1
   Issue2
 Series2
   Issue2

The sorting order in the Icon View and the side-panel uses the title
field (now Issue) only, but at least in the side-panel you can adjust it
by selecting a column.

Maybe you can add a context menu to the Icon View to allow the user to
select a field used for sorting.
You could also set the title field to %{series}/%{issue}, but this would
result in a duplicated series value in the list view ...

Jens

Jens