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Originally Posted by Lady Fitzgerald
Curious. I have no trouble sorting with tags. Have you tried using the tag browser?
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Yes, but the tag browser is for filtering, not "sort-ordering". We may be having a semantic disconnect on this basic term. When I use
sorting I mean in the "sequencing" sense of the word (for example sort into alphabetical or numeric order), not in the selecting sense (for example sort into red and blue). The term
sorting is broadly used in database technology in the sequencing sense not in the selection sense.
To put some context to this my non fiction library has about 8250 titles in it. On average, each Title has 9 tags. Currently, the tag field in the book list is ordered alphabetically. So of the 9 tags per book, the books will be clustered by whichever tag is first alphabetically (if you click the tag column heading). The problem is, is that the first tag alphabetically, may be my 9th-least-important tag hierarchically. So i get books clumped together by, possibly, the least important tag in the list of tags for those books.