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Title: Sorting by disc number
Post by: Vincent Kars on January 26, 2013, 05:09:11 pm

I sorted by disc and by track but somehow it doesn't work properly on disc #

Title: Re: Sorting by disc number
Post by: MrC on January 26, 2013, 05:27:20 pm

Empty and 1 are considered the same with Disc # when using formatted values.

Make them use either, but not both of those values.  Or use [Disc #,0] as an expression column.

Title: Re: Sorting by disc number
Post by: Vincent Kars on January 26, 2013, 05:37:34 pm

Hi MrRegex

I did nothing
Care to explain these formatted values?

Title: Re: Sorting by disc number
Post by: MrC on January 26, 2013, 05:51:19 pm

The values you see in cells and panes are formatted.  They are pretty-printed versions of the raw, actual stored data, or have special treatment applied to certain values or operations (such as for integer or decimal types treating 0 and blank as the same, or for [Disc #] blank and 1 as the same).

A field has two forms of expression:

   Raw:         [field,0]
   Formatted: [field,1]  (the default)

MC uses the formatted version by default (so you can just enter [field]).  So in the case of Disc #, both blank and 1 are treated as one and the same.

Title: Re: Sorting by disc number
Post by: Vincent Kars on January 26, 2013, 05:54:13 pm

Thanks

Looks like I have a feature request…

Title: Re: Sorting by disc number
Post by: MrC on January 26, 2013, 05:58:30 pm

Just change the column you show, from [Disc #] instead to an expression column with the value [Disc #,0] and it will sort the way you want.