Thread: Req: copy button Author_sort to Author
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Old 04-30-2011, 02:58 PM   #13
chaley
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Originally Posted by dwanthny View Post
The second isn't suppose to flip the positions. The second simply fills the Author field based on the Author sort field and the tweaks you may have in place. If the Author_sort is green then clicking the second option won't change a thing. As an experiment to see exactly what this option does, change the author_sort so it is pink then select the second option.
One slight modification to this. If the author sort tweak is set to comma and if the author name is LN, FN, then pushing this button will change the author to FN LN.

Yes, this is the wrong answer for some number of people (including me), but the right answer for some others. The problem is that 'comma' can be used to tolerate "LN, FN" names when the user really wants to use "FN LN", or it can be used to tolerate "FN LN" names when the user really wants to use "LN, FN". Without doing something like kiwidude has been agitating for (a declaration of how names are to be stored as opposed to a declaration of how author_sort is to be computed), we can't know the right transformation.
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