There may be a better name for it. Anyway, I somehow keep ending up with some issues with the same Series or Name, but different Sort Name. I can’t really catch it until I notice some books in the wrong place.
So the idea is a report that looks for books with a common Series or Name, but different Sort Names.
I’d rather spend time to find out how and why this happens.
Then again, maybe it is a remnant of an old bug in older version of the software, which has been fixed ages ago…
Do you think this is still happening for new entries?
I don’t see it happening for new entries, but I believe I am seeing it happen for series that are already in there.
My “Add from Core” settings are all set to Yes, but for “Update from Core” I have Series set to “Skip” (for this reason). I have Issue Nr set to “Update” and then everything else is set to “Replace”.
I have “All-New X-Factor” set with “AllNew X-Factor” as Sort Name. I’m not 100% sure but I believe I ran an Update from Core, Update Key Info, and Update values on that title at some point, and afterwards 4-5 issues had reverted to Sort Name “All-New X-Factor”.
Wondering if maybe updating some other field is causing the Sort Name to revert? Apologies I fixed it before getting more information - if I find it again I’ll look closer for a pattern.
I’ve also seen some titles with a Sort Name of like “Amazing Spider-Man 1963-1993” rather than either the default “Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 1” or what I would normally do, “Amazing Spider-Man 1”. I don’t think I ever used that year-range in that way (other than using the years over in the Hulk titles at one point).
I found another example, not sure if you can look at it from your end. Batman, Vol. 1 where the majority of them have Sort Name: Batman 1 1940-2011 (which I don’t know where the “1940-2011” came from) and then 15 books have Sort Name: Batman, Vol. 1. Not sure if you can see some pattern in those 15. Even if I had updated the Series on issues, I would not have picked out specific issues like that, it would have either been the entire series or there would have been a specific point in the run where the change is everything before or after.
We’ve double checked the Batman, Vol. 1 series here, but we never had those years in the sort title field it seems. So if perhaps in the past you did fill in that year, and at some point during adding (because this system has had its issues over the years), it added with our sort name again, then split series is something that would’ve/could have happened.
For “All-New X-Factor” - that is a strange one if you indeed modified it to be “Allnew” - then any update skipping the series title (as you do) should never affect that, and new issues should go into your database using the series you have.
However: I’m not sure if you use the mobile app too? In there, if a series existed with the old sort title, and you create a new one, (not modify) it could be that the “old one” still exists - and the Add Comics screen will look for the “series ID” when adding, to see if you have it already - and it will simply grab “the first one it comes across” - which then could be the “old one” - and then this might happen.
You can remove “unused pick list items” in the mobile app via menu > maintenance > remove all unused pick list items.
Perhaps that will at least prevent it for the future (again only if you use the mobile app).
As for the web version: I recommend fixing them as you come across them. If you indeed discover a patern or something reproducable, that would be great to hear about!