Sort Title within collections

[Diedrich 377]

I can't get "Sort Title" within a collection to be respected. If I set a few movies as 01, 02, 03, etc... there are no changes, the movies are still being shown in order by Year. Am I missing something? Is this not built in?

[Happy2Play 9783]

Sort Title is only honored in Collections if you change "Display Settings" from Release Date to Sort Title.

 

Select Edit Info on a Collection and find Display Settings.,

[Diedrich 377]

Sort Title is only honored in Collections if you change "Display Settings" from Release Date to Sort Title.

 

Select Edit Info on a Collection and find Display Settings.,

Thank you. You know, I actually think I've asked this exact question before; the setting is so obscure and easy to miss. Thanks again.

[Happy2Play 9783]

Thank you. You know, I actually think I've asked this exact question before; the setting is so obscure and easy to miss. Thanks again.

 

Any suggestions to improve it?

[bjhille 3]

I'm not sure if this is expected behavior or not...

 

I have a Collection called "Aliens".  Within this collection, I have the following movie titles:

• Title: Alien     Sort Title: Alien 1     filename: Alien (1979).m4v
• Title: Aliens     Sort Title: Alien 2     filename: Aliens (1986).m4v
• Title: Alien3     Sort Title: Alien 3     filename: Alien3 (1992).m4v
• Title: Alien Resurrection     Sort Title: Alien 4     filename: Alien - Resurrection (1997).m4v
• Title: Promethus     Sort Title: Alien 5     filename: Alien - Prometheus (2012).m4v
• Title: Alien Covenant     Sort Title: Alien 6     filename: Alien - Covenant (2017).m4v

 

When I first added all the movies to the collection, the sort by was "name" and they would appear was:

• Alien
• Aliens
• Alien3
• Alien Resurrection
• Promethus
• Alien Covenant

 

I then deleted Alien to test how that worked and had to re-add and rebuild the nfo files, etc.  When I added the movie back (unknown to me the release date was wrong indicating a 2008 date), the order was:

• Aliens
• Alien3
• Alien Resurrection
• Alien
• Promethus
• Alien Covenant

I updated the Sort By to be Release date and had no change to the display order.  That's when I found the incorrect Release date.  I updated, but the order remained.  I then changed the Sort By to be Name, and I got:

• Alien
• Aliens
• Alien3
• Alien Resurrection
• Promethus
• Alien Covenant

 

My first question is, when you select a sort by "Name", what does that mean?  Is that by Title, filename, Sort Title, Original Title?  My next question, does this sound right in terms of expected behavior?  I don't feel like it's using the Sort Title like I would have expected as that incorrect Release Date shouldn't have mattered.

 

Thanks.  Brian

[ebr 16190]

When you sort by "Name" Sort Title is what matters - unless there is no sort title in which case it would just be the title.

 

In the case of collections, however, there are some specialized sorting options and we default to release date (because this is how people usually want to see members of collections).