First post, and hope it's not one that shows I'm an idiot

frangelica · 05-24-2017, 04:59 PM

I have seen in the Calibre User Guide that there is a way to subsort, but I cannot get it to work for me.

I just updated to 2.85.1, and would love to be able to sort by Author and subsort by Series.

Any help would be gratefully and meekly accepted.

jackie_w · 05-24-2017, 05:06 PM

If you want to sort by Author/Series:

1. Click the Series column header
2. Click the Author(s) column header

The generic solution is to click the column headers in reverse order.

BetterRed · 05-24-2017, 05:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by frangelica

I have seen in the Calibre User Guide that there is a way to subsort, but I cannot get it to work for me.

I just updated to 2.85.1, and would love to be able to sort by Author and subsort by Series.

There is also a plugin to facilitate this ==>> View Manager

It allows you define, name. save. and reuse multi-column sort orders and column layouts (LTR order of columns in book list) that you can switch between as and when needed.

BR

frangelica · 05-26-2017, 04:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jackie_w

If you want to sort by Author/Series:

1. Click the Series column header
2. Click the Author(s) column header

The generic solution is to click the column headers in reverse order.

That is the procedure that I saw in the User Guide, but for some reason it doesn't work for me. Thank you anyway....I appreciate your time.

frangelica · 05-26-2017, 04:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BetterRed

There is also a plugin to facilitate this ==>> View Manager

It allows you define, name. save. and reuse multi-column sort orders and column layouts (LTR order of columns in book list) that you can switch between as and when needed.

BR

I will definitely check out this plugin! Thank you!

itimpi · 05-26-2017, 05:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by frangelica

That is the procedure that I saw in the User Guide, but for some reason it doesn't work for me. Thank you anyway....I appreciate your time.

You should note that with default settings clicking on the authors column header actually sorts on the 'author-sort' field and not the visible 'author' field.

05-24-2017, 04:59 PM	#1
frangelica Member Posts: 18 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2011 Device: nook, palm pre	First post, and hope it's not one that shows I'm an idiot I have seen in the Calibre User Guide that there is a way to subsort, but I cannot get it to work for me. I just updated to 2.85.1, and would love to be able to sort by Author and subsort by Series. Any help would be gratefully and meekly accepted.

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jackie_w Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,212 Karma: 16534894 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: UK Device: Kobo: KA1, ClaraHD, Forma, Libra2, Clara2E. PocketBook: TouchHD3	If you want to sort by Author/Series: 1. Click the Series column header 2. Click the Author(s) column header The generic solution is to click the column headers in reverse order.