Wishlist: Provide way to override default sorting in monograph parts

[Dan Pearl]

This is a wishlist item for a facility to allow explicit sorting of labels in the monograph_part list (and associated drop-down in the Add Volumes dialogue).

The labels associated with a title (like Vol.1, Vol.2) are subjected to an encoding to produce a value called label_sortkey. Usually, this encoding does the right thing so that labels are displayed in a natural order. In other cases, the results are less than optimal. An example is where you have Vol.1, Vol.2, Vol. 3 and an Addendum. The default order would put the Addendum first.

This enhancement creates an additional field for biblio.monograph_part: sort_order (an integer, default 0). When editing or creating a label for the monograph parts for a title, you can enter a value in that field which will be used the primary sort value, then the label_sortkey would be used as usual.

So to place the Appendix where it belongs, the cataloger would change the sort_order for Appendix to 1 (from 0). More than one entry can have the same sort_order, which will defer sorting in that group of entries with identical values to the label_sortkey.

(I have a sample implementation that I will check in soon.)

[Dan Pearl (dpearl)]

http://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=working/Evergreen.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/user/dpearl/parts

[Dan Pearl (dpearl)]

Superseded by check-in at LP#1169569