Sort by Series

[adam-rozen]

Issue: Books are not sorted by series on My Books page
Expected Functionality: When sort by is set to series, books are ordered by series and their number in the series

[bayang]

this sort option broke when I added the possibility to have multiple series on one book.

Series used to be a single field on the book, now it is a separate table in DB.

I can add order by series but when a book has multiple series only one will be used for sorting and that can lead to confusion in the UI.

Duplicating books that have multiple series to make them appear once per series is even more confusing.

This problem will also appear if I introduce sort by authors #106 , books with multiple authors will be sorted by one of the authors only

[adam-rozen]

Yes, that is a good point. I am not a fan of either of these options either, but would still like to see this functionality return someday if possible. Perhaps we can leave this open in case someone else sees it and has a fresh approach.

In the meantime, since it does not work and is not likely to return soon, perhaps sort by author and sort by series should be hidden from the UI?

[bayang]

Yes, it makes sense. I'll remove the filter since it is broken.