More small catalog improvements
I'm redoing the catalog extensively so that wish lists and "collections" aren't tacked on Rube Goldberg-style. Most of the improvements are on the "back end." But two are on the front, and have been eagerly anticipated for some time:
1. Subsorting. As most (but apparently not all*) members know, you can click a column in your library, such as "Title" or "Author," to sort by it. But how do you sort by two columns? Well, you couldn't, but not you can. We adopted the common but hardly universal convention of subsorting by the last sort. So, if you want to sort by author, and title within author, click "title" to sort by title, and then "author" to sort by author and subsort by title.
2. Suggested display styles. You can now set a "Suggested display style for visitors to your library." Visitors then get this as an option to use this when they look at your library.
"Suggested displays" was introduced last week, on Talk. Users have come up with very good recommendations for improving it. I indend to take them up on some of them.
1. Subsorting. As most (but apparently not all*) members know, you can click a column in your library, such as "Title" or "Author," to sort by it. But how do you sort by two columns? Well, you couldn't, but not you can. We adopted the common but hardly universal convention of subsorting by the last sort. So, if you want to sort by author, and title within author, click "title" to sort by title, and then "author" to sort by author and subsort by title.
2. Suggested display styles. You can now set a "Suggested display style for visitors to your library." Visitors then get this as an option to use this when they look at your library.
"Suggested displays" was introduced last week, on Talk. Users have come up with very good recommendations for improving it. I indend to take them up on some of them.
Labels: new feature
posted by Tim at 1:25 AM
15 Comments:
Sweeeet... Subsorting has been at the top of my wishlist for a while.
Thanks Tim! Can't wait to see all the other new stuff. Keep up the great work.
Oooh, subsorting! I think I love you!
Is it just me or do the titles come up in reverse alphabetical order when sorted afterwards by author? I also tried reverse sorting by title then sorting by author, but got the same results.
Subsorting will be great! I can't wait to use it!
Just an extremely minor query, does the star after "but apparently not all*" mean anything? :P
My titles are coming up in the right order when sorted afterwards by author.
I hope this comment moderation isn't permanent.
No, it's not. See http://www.librarything.com/thingology/2007/09/blog-spam-protection.php
Fifty or so more came after I posted that, but before I enabled it on both blogs.
{mr burns} Excellent... {/mr burns}
{steeples fingers happily}
chamekke
I'm having the same problem that scorbet mentioned. I sort on title and everything looks fine. I then sort on author and all of the titles are suddenly reversed.
Thanks for putting in this feature; it's one that I've wanted from day one and I'm looking forward to this little glitch going away.
Douglas
"In the end, only kindness matters."
Further investigation shows that my work computer (IE6) shows the glitch, but my own laptop (Firefox) doesn't.
(Glad to know that I'm not actually the only one!)
Subsorting! Thank you!
Bravo for subsorting!
I've been hoping for subsorting for ages, thanks!
(I'm also getting the bug mentioned earlier about titles coming up in reverse alpha order when sorting by author)
as of sept. 22nd, lt IS THE 64th largest city in the U.S. edging out Riverside, California, and threatening Newark, New Jersey (#63) with 277,000.
I feel confident we'll surpasss the LC in books, but I don't think we're going to surpass NYC in members. I suppose a dozen or so social networks have.
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