sorting by author and booktitle

[freule]

Hello,

I have search all around but can't find a solution, is their a possibility to sort by author and then by book title?

kind regards

[chaley]

Click on title, then click on author. You will have title within author.

Edit: I got the 'click-on's backwards, but the theory is correct.

[Manichean]

Calibre will secondarily sort by the last sorted field, that is, if you first sort by title and then by author, you'll get a book list that's primarily sorted by author, then by title. I seem to remember there also being a tweak to control startup sorting behaviour, but I can't find it in my install.

Edit: Too slow, I kept looking for that tweak

[chaley]

@Manichean: here is the tweak documentation:

# Provide a set of columns to be sorted on when calibre starts
#  The argument is None if saved sort history is to be used
#  otherwise it is a list of column,order pairs. Column is the
#  lookup/search name, found using the tooltip for the column
#  Order is 0 for ascending, 1 for descending
# For example, set it to [('authors',0),('title',0)] to sort by
# title within authors.
sort_columns_at_startup = None

[freule]

thanks, i will try, but i don't understand tweaks what do i have to do

[Manichean]

Ah, missed it, it's there all right.

The tweaks can be found in preferences->tweaks. Basically, what you do if you want to use that tweak is first to copy and paste it down from the upper tweaks window to the lower one (the upper field contains all available tweaks, the lower one contains the ones that you are actually using). Then, change the tweak to whatever value you want to use according to the documentation (the stuff preceded by hash signs '#'). For your case, putting

sort_columns_at_startup = [('authors',0),('title',0)]

into the lower tweaks field sets your library to be sorted primarily by authors and secondarily by title at startup.
Note that when adding tweaks to the lower, "in-effect" field, you don't necessarily need to include the tweaks comments.

[DoctorOhh]

Originally Posted by chaley

Click on title, then click on author. You will have title within author.

Edit: I got the 'click-on's backwards, but the theory is correct.

Your click order was correct.

My tweak is

sort_columns_at_startup = ('authors',0),('series',0),('title',0)

Which is the same as clicking title, then series, then author.

This puts all books in order by author with the books within author being sorted by series if in a series and by title if not in a series.

[Manichean]

Originally Posted by dwanthny

Your click order was correct.

Well, I assume that is because he corrected it

[chaley]

The OP asked for author within title. I gave him title within author.

[DoctorOhh]

Originally Posted by chaley

The OP asked for author within title. I gave him title within author.

I think you gave him what he wanted even if it didn't sound that way.

[paulfiera]

Originally Posted by dwanthny

My tweak is

sort_columns_at_startup = ('authors',0),('series',0),('title',0)

Which is the same as clicking title, then series, then author.

That's a great tweak. I've been trying to find out how I could achieve this sorting.

Solved

[freule]

thanks a lot every body i have mannaged to change the tweak.