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Originally Posted by BetterRed
@rolk - IMO you're expecting the title_sort column to behave in a manner that's contrary to its design purpose.
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That seems to be the case. I'm a bit confused concerning the exact purpose of title_sort. I'll try to read up on it.
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I would advise separating the "[SomeCategoryName - Number]" part of your titles into a discrete custom column - eg mycategory. Maybe based on calibres Series type column.
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I was trying to use title_sort to achieve a clustering effect, perhaps that is a bad idea. I need to find out how calibre is sorting the list of publications. I'll look into the View Manager and see how that can help.
Still, I think it is pretty weird behaviour for a user interface to:
1) warn about two fields having distinct values
2) reassure you that if that is what you want, everything is fine
3) when you click ok, it sneaks in behind your back and changes the second field to match the first field anyway!
4) ...or this behaviour is somewhere enabled/activated by a tweak or plugin and I haven't been able to find out where.
And the weirdest thing is that the same dialog does allow distinct values between the two (title and title_sort) as long as you do not edit the title field. Editing the title field triggers this 'automagical synchronization'.
Downloading the source code right now, I'll have a look at how this dialog is handled.