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Old 07-26-2012, 10:58 AM   #6
kiwidude
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@mumdigau - I've been trying to decide if it is a "bug" or just a missing feature in the Manage Series plugin. I am swaying towards the latter. The way the sorting works at the moment is that it sorts primarily by the index value followed by the series name, hence the behaviour you see above.

Why does it do that and not series name before the index? It is because a common usage of the plugin is to get series names consistent, particularly after a metadata download where different sources may have different names for the series but give the correct same series index value. So if you had "The Foo [1]" and "Foo [2]" then when you open the dialog you want to see them sorted in order of 1 then 2, not alphabetically "Foo" then "The Foo".

However in your case your starting point means that you want it the other way around.

I think what I should do is change "Sort by Original Series", so that there are now now options - "Sort by Original Series Index" (what it does now, and the default behaviour) and "Sort by Original Series Name" (which is what you want).
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