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Originally Posted by Manichean

Apart from it being a custom metadata column and thus appearing in the custom metadata part of the edit dialog, you can use the custom columns to sort, search and do whatever just like the original ones. It sounds like you picked the wrong columnn type, though- you built a column from other columns, what you need is to build a series info type column.

thanks, but now I'm really confused. What is the difference between building a "series info type" column and building a column from other columns? I want the column to be able to have series name and index by number.