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Originally Posted by itimpi
Actually, I think that the red means that the author sort field set at the book level differs from that stored in the author record. In most cases this is the same as saying it is different to the value that would be computed, but that rule falls down in the case where you have corrected the value in the Author record.
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An author's sort value is computed when that author is first seen on a book or on demand in Manage Authors. In the case of a new author on a new book, that newly computed author's sort value will be used to fill in the book's author sort. For an existing author on a new book, the existing author's sort value will be used. Correcting an author's sort value (using Manage Authors) will recompute the author_sort for any book by that author.
Thus, the only way that the red can appear is when the book's author_sort has been manually changed using edit metadata (single/bulk) to differ from what is computed using the authors' individual sort values.