Oddities in alphabetical ordering

[Guest HenryWaxmansNostrils]

Hi I have two films that don't conform to alphabetical ordering in movies. First "Madagascar Escape 2 Africa" shows up in dashboard and MBC as the first film under # . Second " A.I.Artificial Intelligence" shows up correctly under A in dashboard but under "I" in MBC. I know that default is set to ignore "A" at the start of a title.how do I get around this. T.I.A Neil

[CWNashvegas 169]

In the web client, go into each item and click "edit", and see what the Sort Title is set to. That is what determines the sorting order. 

[Guest HenryWaxmansNostrils]

Hi Christa I managed to sort Madagascar 2 but a.i.Artificial intelligence is still a problem. Funny thing is editing Madagascar 2 the sort by name field and name field were empty so I filled them. When I went to edit A.I. Both these fields were filled in with the proper title so I saved checked in MBC still under I. So I tried the ,an, a, in front of the title in the sort field checking and refreshing each time still under I in MBC it won't move. Weirdly after each edit it moved in the web client to T and then A respectively. So I changed back to just the title and now it shows at the start of# in dashboard instead of A and still under I in MBC . Maybe I'm just thick don't know what else to try

[CWNashvegas 169]

"Hi Christa I managed to sort Madagascar 2 but a.i.Artificial intelligence is still a problem. Funny thing is editing Madagascar 2 the sort by name field and name field were empty so I filled them. When I went to edit A.I. Both these fields were filled in with the proper title so I saved checked in MBC still under I. So I tried the ,an, a, in front of the title in the sort field checking and refreshing each time still under I in MBC it won't move. Weirdly after each edit it moved in the web client to T and then A respectively. So I changed back to just the title and now it shows at the start of# in dashboard instead of A and still under I in MBC . Maybe I'm just thick don't know what else to try "

 

 

Try this:

 

AIArtificial Intelligence (taking out periods and the first space)

 

Sort title isn't displayed so it doesn't have to look good.

[ebr 11164]

The sort routines in MBC are probably still taking into account the "A " logic.  I think Christa's suggestion should work.

[Guest HenryWaxmansNostrils]

Problem solved Christa your a gem

[CWNashvegas 169]

Yay! Glad we got you sorted. No pun intended.

[ebr 11164]

Just a point of order - to mark a topic as solved, select "Mark Solved" on the post that provided the answer.

[Guest HenryWaxmansNostrils]

Ok ebr bit new to all this but it already looked as if it had been marked as solved on christa,s answer. Big thanks to everyone regards Neil