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[GregR]

(20-03-2016 22:35)simoncn Wrote:  

(20-03-2016 17:50)antonmb Wrote:  It seems clunky, but you could just put a number or letter at the beginning of each according to the sort order you want, e.g. 1-Medeival. Or you could use the actual years of the period.

Another option is to use MinimServer's custom sort value capability. This would require you to tag each file with an EraSort tag and well as an Era tag, where the EraSort tag has values like 1200, 1500, 1600, 1750, 1800 and 1900. Adding these extra tags would be quite tedious and error-prone and might be more trouble than it is worth. if you are interested in doing this, see this section for details of how to set up custom sorting.

Just a follow up comment. When you suggested 4 digit EraSort tags I thought you were hedging your bet, so I tried 600 for Medieval and 1200 for Ren*. Many times a computer will sort a text field in alpha order and put 1200 before 600 because 1 comes before 6. Not so MinimServer! I guess it converts a text field into integer if appropriate before sorting. Now that is attention to detail! Awesome.

Greg