this question of the category view....

[Robby Stephenson]

On Thursday 21 August 2008, Peter Alcibiades wrote:
> Robbie has withstood my proddings on this with great good humor.  Here is
> why its a problem.

I still think the right-click, "Filter by group" does what you want. :P

> In my case, tellico is being used for an indexed collection.  The items
> have one unique index number, assigned at the time of accession.  The
> index field is fairly meaningless.  In defiance of good database practice
> it has a meaning of sorts, but its a combination of year, month and
> ordinal position of the item in accessions for that month.  So it might
> be something like Site1 2004.11.13.
>
> You see in the left pane then, that you have 42 prints and 25 photos. 
> You wish to know more.  So you click on a folder.  At that point you see
> 25 identical icons all with the accession numbers under them. Stuff like,
> Site1 2004.2.3 This isn't very helpful because the legends tell you
> nothing.really about the object.

In that case, it sound like you just want to use a different field as the 
title, no?

Robby