The [Title] sort seems to deliberately sort by first letter of title then by descending year. Is there a rationale for this?

Something similar may happen in some other sorts.

My users want me to sort by the full title. I can take out the substring()'s in the ORDER BY clause creation code, but of course this means that I'll have to redo that change with each new release. Is there a better way?

Or could this be configurable?

Thanks,
Zhahai

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rjerome commented

Title sorting has been greatly improved in 6.x and I will back port it to 5.x when things stabilize a bit.

To answer you question, there is no really good reason for the current cascaded sorts, and I am removing it in 6.x. Also new in 6.x is that the sorting detects and ignores words like "A ", "An ", "The " at the beginning of a title so the sorting makes a bit more sense. If you have any other words like this you would like ignored at the beginning of titles, now would be a good time to put them forward.

Ron.

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Status: Active » Fixed
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Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.