[chaley]

@kaufman: as eschwartz said, nice.

I assume that you are using the new custom column in a user-defined sort (Authors, #yourCol). You could do it all in the custom column, freeing a user-defined sort and also giving you the possibility to invert the sort. Using eschwartz's modification, the template would be:

program:

strcat(
	field('author_sort'),
	':::',
	ifempty(
		strcat(
			field('series'),
			finish_formatting(
				field('series_index'),
				"5.2f",
				" (",
				")"
			)
		),
		field('title')
	)
)

Also, you might want to use the series_sort() function instead of field('series'). Depends on whether you want to sort on "The Lost Fleet" or "Lost Fleet, The".