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Originally Posted by itimpi
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..
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Thanks. This seems like a perfectly acceptable way to achieve what I want, without messing with the title_sort field.
That being said though, I'm still a bit in the dark as why editing the title field in 'edit metadata - individually' also updates the title_sort field. Especially since the UI gives me a fair warning:
"The red color warns that the current
title sort does not match the current title.
No action is required if this is what you want."
In the tooltip of the title_sort (appears in red).
I'm debugging this using the latest state of affairs from the git repository. When I close the dialog, I only see one commit (for the TITLE_ATTR="title"), so if my debugging is correct, it is not the actual metadata edit dialog that causes the title_sort field to be set to match the title. It has got to be something that is triggered after the dialog is closed.