Bug 2646

Summary: Add sort option for the series number
Product: Koha Reporter: Nicole C. Engard <nengard>
Component: OPACAssignee: Galen Charlton <gmcharlt>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact: Bugs List <koha-bugs>
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: barbara.johnson, cbrannon, george, jeremy.evans, lisette, marjorie.barry-vila, michaela.sieber, mnero, mteal, phil, sbcornell, slmontesdeoca, sspohn
Version: Main   
Hardware: PC   
OS: All   
See Also: https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=15161
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Description Chris Cormack 2010-05-21 00:53:52 UTC


---- Reported by nengard@gmail.com 2008-09-26 07:39:20 ----

Can we sort by the 440v? That would be the series number - so I could see the series in order on the search results page.



--- Bug imported by chris@bigballofwax.co.nz 2010-05-21 00:53 UTC  ---

This bug was previously known as _bug_ 2646 at http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=2646

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Comment 1 slmontesdeoca 2023-02-01 22:54:27 UTC
Being able to sort series by volume number would be extremely helpful. However, doing so shouldn't be confined to the 440 $v, but also 8XX $v.
Comment 2 Christopher Brannon 2023-04-25 22:25:17 UTC
(In reply to slmontesdeoca from comment #1)
> Being able to sort series by volume number would be extremely helpful.
> However, doing so shouldn't be confined to the 440 $v, but also 8XX $v.

What about the 490v?  I, too, would like to see progress on this.  Particularly when you click on a series link, that should default to a specific order.  Would love to see more interest and movement on this.  This bug is quite old.
Comment 3 George Williams (NEKLS) 2023-04-26 15:08:54 UTC
(In reply to Christopher Brannon from comment #2)
> (In reply to slmontesdeoca from comment #1)
> > Being able to sort series by volume number would be extremely helpful.
> > However, doing so shouldn't be confined to the 440 $v, but also 8XX $v.
> 
> What about the 490v?  I, too, would like to see progress on this. 
> Particularly when you click on a series link, that should default to a
> specific order.  Would love to see more interest and movement on this.  This
> bug is quite old.

At the time that nengard@gmail.com sent the e-mail this bug is based on, the 440 fields were still in use.  The Marc standard change that moved the 440 data to 490 happened shortly after that e-mail was sent in September of 2008.

Being able to sort by the 490$v would be an awesome addition to Koha.
Comment 4 Barbara Johnson 2024-02-08 22:50:22 UTC
I have a new cataloger and she just asked me why Koha doesn't do this. We'd love to see items in a series sort in series order in the OPAC based on the 490$v.
Comment 5 Steve, OSLRI, USA 2024-04-27 19:42:47 UTC
Our members are asking for this as well.
Comment 6 Miranda Nero 2024-04-29 13:34:03 UTC
We don't use the 490, so we would like this to be sort on 830v as well.
Comment 7 mteal 2025-02-03 17:21:30 UTC
Being able to search and return a series in series # order would be great. We typically use the 800 or 830 subfield v, so field 8xx would work for us.
Comment 8 mteal 2025-02-03 17:29:21 UTC
(In reply to mteal from comment #7)
> Being able to search and return a series in series # order would be great.
> We typically use the 800 or 830 subfield v, so field 8xx would work for us.

Also, we don't use the Koha OPAC, so we're looking for this in the staff side of Koha.
Comment 9 Jeremy Evans 2025-05-16 09:53:18 UTC
We would support this. We have a series with several volumes published in the same year so sorting by date isn't always helpful.  The ability to sort results in the staff client by series name and volume number would help identify missing volumes from the series.