[itimpi]

Originally Posted by rolk

Hi Lisa,

Thanks for your reply. I like the idea of postfixing a braced number, I think I'm going to adopt that style.



So in the way you suggest 'Ultimate' ends up in the Series field right? How does this work in the main display? I thought the main display sorts books based on title_sort, which is why I'm trying to maintain that separate from the title field.

Suppose your series is called 'The Ultimate Series' and has three books:

'The Ultimate Series - Introduction to Ultimate'
'The Ultimate Series - More Ultimate'
'The Ultimate Series - The Ultimate Ultimate'

And you also have another publication by the same author:

'Nothing Ultimate'

not part of this series.

Then you'd have the following entries:

title                         title_sort                          series
Introduction to Ultimate (1)  Brief Introduction to Ultimate      Ultimate
More Ultimate (2)             More Ultimate                       Ultimate
The Ultimate Ultimate (3)     The Ultimate Ultimate               Ultimate
Nothing Ultimate              Nothing Ultimate

Now, wouldn't the title_sort field cause the main display to display these books as:

title                         title_sort                          series
Introduction to Ultimate (1)  Brief Introduction to Ultimate      Ultimate
More Ultimate (2)             More Ultimate                       Ultimate
Nothing Ultimate              Nothing Ultimate
The Ultimate Ultimate (3)     The Ultimate Ultimate               Ultimate

My thought was to use title_sort to keep this a bit organized. In this example, I'd like it so that all 'Ultimate' publications are kept close together, but perhaps there is a better way.

No - that is not how it would display. The number within a series is appended to the Series entry - not the title field.

What I normally do is click first on the title field to get sorted by title, and then on the Series field. Doing that results in title_sort order within series order. The net effect is that those without a series entry end up at the top in title_sort order (as they all have the same empty value for series), but the ones in series are sorted by series name/number as there is normally only a single books with a given series+series number value..