[Old Thread] User Defined Column

[Cpl Punishment]

I was unaware of "F2"..It works..!! Now Im off to find something else !!! Thanks everyone...

[Marcs1102]

Originally Posted by Cpl Punishment

When sorting I have Last Name, First Name Middle Initial...But looking at the Authors alphabetically it keys on the first name, not the last name....Any way to change it....or should I have put First Middle Last...?? (is there a proper format...??)

actually the author_sort field contains the name as LN,FN (but you can't directly show it)
however you can use it in templates, so i just tricked it, (created a user defined column built from other columns, and told it use author_sort)
Ha!

[DoctorOhh]

Originally Posted by Marcs1102

actually the author_sort field contains the name as LN,FN (but you can't directly show it)
however you can use it in templates, so i just tricked it, (created a user defined column built from other columns, and told it use author_sort)
Ha!

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