[Koha-bugs] [Bug 30327] Sort component parts

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=30327

--- Comment #13 from David Nind <david at davidnind.com> ---
I tested the alternate patch, but haven't signed it off. I like the idea that
the library can configure depending on how they do things/want to do things.

After applying the patch the default sort order seems to be biblionumber,
rather than title (did flush_memcached, restart_all, clear browser cache).
System preference was showing as title and ascending. (I increased the
MaxComponentRecords to 1,000 so that all sample records are shown.

If I change the preference to title, from A to Z it seems to work okay (chinese
and other titles with different character encoding appear first, so I'm
assuming there are some rules for how this works behind the scenes - once the
"english" titles start, they appear in order).

I had mixed results trying the different combinations of sort orders, probably
more to do with the sample record data and having 435 records listed:
- date added: it was almost impossible to check given most being 09/04/2014 -
changing some seemed to sort in order.
- author: seems OK for later items when clear last name, for the records listed
first seems pretty random - particularly where multople authors, editors, no
author - I'm assuming there are some rules about how this works or will use the
first author.
- call number: seems ok - added a few to some items to test.
- date of publication: based on 260$c?, seems a bit random sometimes - for
example, dates with <1973-c1980>, sorting descending - Economics (record 434),
with a 2014 publication date appears at the end of the list
- title: seems okay.

I'm assuming for sort order A-Z is for titles or for a mix of numbers and
letters (like call numbers), and ascending and descending when dates.

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