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Old 04-06-2019, 06:32 PM   #17
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Series Numbers refresh weirdly

Does anyone else notice this behaviour?

When I'm viewing a book series using the search or shelf feature (with or without patches), the series numbers don't refresh when you swipe, unless there's new text (like a different series) on the next page. Then when you swipe back, you get the proper numbers, but those number persist until you hit something different in the other direction.

For example, I've got the Sword Art Online, Sword Art Online Alternative and Sword Art Online Progressive novel series. Doing a search for 'Sword Art Online' brings up all of them.

There's about 16 Sword Art Online books, 3 Sword art Online Alternative and 5 Sword Art Online Progressive books. This means the Alternative books appear first and then you get about 3 screens worth of Sword Art Online results before you hit the Progressive results.

For example, on the first screen of results, I have listed in order:

Sword Art Online Alternative 02
Sword Art Online Alternative 01
Sword Art Online Alternative 03
Sword Art Online 01
Sword Art Online 02

On the second screen of results, I have listed:

Sword Art Online 03
Sword Art Online 04
Sword Art Online 05
Sword Art Online 06
Sword Art Online 07

The third is
SAO 08
SAO 09
SAO 10
SAO 11
SAO 12

The fourth is:

SAO 13
SAO 14
SAO 15
SAO 16
SAO Progressive 01

Finally, the fifth screen has:

SAO Progressive 02
SAO Progressive 03
SAO Progressive 04
SAO Progressive 05

Swiping from first screen to second, the first three listings refresh properly, but the last two do not and still display 1 and 2 as the series numbers for those titles. So in terms of index numbers (the book titles are correct), the second screen looks like:

SAO 3
SAO 4
SAO 5
SAO 1
SAO 2

This persists until about screen 3 or 4 when the bottom two books refresh (the first three books are still listed as books 3-5). When I get to the last screen (screen 5), then everything refreshes to show the proper Progressive index numbers.

Then swiping backwards from screen five, yields:

SAO 13
SAO 14
SAO 15
SAO 16
SAO Progressive 1

on screen 4, and then screen three ends up looking like this:

SAO 13
SAO 14
SAO 15
SAO 11
SAO 12

And they hold those index numbers until you get to screen two or one when you hit the SAO Alternative results again.

The entries in the 'SeriesNumber' column in the database are correct for those books, which leads me to believe that this is a nickel problem, as the display problem persists with or without patches.

But just to be sure: Has anyone else noticed the same behaviour? I don't think I noticed this in 4.12. It's kind of annoying because you'll get confused in the middle pages of large results if you're looking for a particular book in a large series (think Hardy Boys' 190+ books) based on series index number because the number being displayed may not be the correct one.

Last edited by rtiangha; 04-06-2019 at 06:47 PM.
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