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Problem editing series page

1superboy
Jul 13, 10:45 am

I'm working on the series Legends Of Chima but when I edit the series and save it, I notice that sometimes the order gets changed; for example (at the moment) Chapter Book 2 & 3 (a combined edition) has slid below book 4 even though I didn't edit that section. It's happening today and also two days ago.

Separately I'm finding that the site is very slow today. I don't think it's on my end because other sites seem fine.

macOS Sequoia 15.3.2 (24D81)
Firefox 141.0.3 (aarch64)

2superboy
Jul 13, 11:46 am

>1 superboy: The go-slow may be Firefox related; it's slow but not as slow on Safari (but different LT account).

3Maddz
Jul 13, 11:48 am

Sounds like you need to check the series basic settings. From the sound of it, the sort is automatic by order label; for alphanumeric labels, you need to switch to custom sort where you drag and drop the titles.

4superboy
Jul 13, 12:38 pm

>3 Maddz: Thanks, but it is already set to custom. But if it was somehow using automatic by order, 2 should not come after 4.

5superboy
Jul 13, 12:43 pm

It's at least the third time it's happened. When I was editing the series two days ago, 1 and 2 got swapped so I re-ordered them. It happened twice (though I didn't notice if it was the same set - there are several sub-series on that page).

6Maddz
Edited: Jul 13, 2:12 pm

>4 superboy: There is something weird going on there: in any case, that particular volume ought to be in collections & selections, not the core series, as it's an omnibus. You could try changing the label to 'Chapter Book 2 + Chapter Book 3' as 'Chapter Books' may be causing the problem.

But agreed, this sort of series is really difficult to handle.

7superboy
Jul 19, 7:33 am

>6 Maddz: I was wondering about the plural - but it's still ahead of books 5 and 6, so that didn't seem to be the issue either.

Re Collections & Selections, there are still quite a few books to add and organise; I was just waiting to see if this can be resolved so I stopped working on the series.