What I would like is an option NOT to sort within the tag name at all - leave it just like I enter it. For example, I would like to have a value that says: "Health, Diet" and one that says "Heath, Vitamins", so that when I sort on the tag column all the Health are together instead of "Diet, Health" coming before "Health, Vitamins" or "Health, Diet" coming before "Vitamins, Health" - depending on whether it is ascending or descending. I've tried creating my own column, but got things like [1] at the end of the values.
UPDATE: As I was writing this, I had an idea that works perfectly - use a ":", so that I enter "Health: Vitamins" and "Health: Diet", sorts great and looks just like I entered them. I'm going to go ahead and post this (even though I have my answer) just in case someone else is looking through this thread for this kind of problem. Hopefully, using a colon won't cause some other problem in the database.
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Originally Posted by chaley
I submitted a change that sorts the tags in case-insensitive alpha order when they are read from the database. Assuming the change is accepted, tags columns will sort as they visually appear. Note that this is a string sort, meaning that numbers will sort by their characters. Example: the tags 1, 2, 10 will sort 1, 10, 2.
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