OPAC displays the journal issues follows the order of data in which received. e.g. Vol 45, Issue 1 Vol 45 Issue 3 Vol 45 Issue 2 Vol 45 Issue 4 OPAC does not display issues in sequential order. Issues in sequence is convenient for users to identify availability easily. e.g. Vol 45, Issue 1 Vol 45 Issue 2 Vol 45 Issue 3 Vol 45 Issue 4
Vimal, There is a table sorter at the top of every column so you can sort them in order if you want to. But I do agree that it would be nice if they were in order (I'd say descending order - newest first) by default. Nicole
Might as well do this in the staff interface as well for consistency.
Design: we will change the default sort order, table sorters or datatables can be used to resort the data once the screen is displayed.
Hi Savitra, Kyle is worried that the enumeration data ( volume, number, etc. ) are all stored in a single field "Publication Details" aka "Serial Enumeration / chronology". Sorting on that field might not be good as the numbers are not padded ( e.g. we see '2' not '002' ). He thinks right now the results are sorted by the home library name, then the date accessioned, and he's not sure if we can get any better than this without a major overhaul to the serials system. Is this so, or do you have some other idea for how to solve this problem? Thanks, Melia
Melia, we were thinking we will sort it on publication date instead of receive date. This should sort the items in proper order (Vol, Issue etc.). What do you think?
(In reply to comment #5) > Melia, we were thinking we will sort it on publication date instead of > receive date. This should sort the items in proper order (Vol, Issue etc.). > > What do you think? Another possibility is to use regular expressions to pad out all those numbers to say 10 zeros on a copy of the field, then sort by that copy of the field.
Created attachment 9735 [details] [review] Attaching Patch. Changed sorting order from planneddate into publisheddate. So that OPAC as well as Staff interfaces displays issues in sequential order.
Created attachment 10775 [details] [review] Bug 6655 - Sorting order of serial issues in OPAC Works as advertised. Signed-off-by: Elliott Davis <elliott@bywatersolutions.com>
QA comment: tiny -and logical- change, passed QA
I think it's more a trivial bugfix than an ENH: sorting by publisheddate is logical. sorting by expecteddate is not
Pushed to 3.8.x will be in 3.8.4