UNC-Libraries/Curators-Workbench — Issue #79: Support for alphabetized folders vs. Explicitly ordered folders
Author: gregjan
Created: 2011-10-18 20:21:07+00:00
State: open
Labels: arrange, capture

Some materials are naturally alphabetical, such as a list of files. (At least this is what users generally expect from file navigation tools.) Other materials are not alphabetical, such as journal contents, or a list of presentations that make up an event, or a time series of publications. People sometimes give such materials titles which happen to sort them correctly, but this should not be necessary.

Currently the workbench allows the user to put objects in whatever order they wish. Order is explicit, you can move any items ahead of or behind any other item by drag and drop.

This feature request would add another kind of folder. This folder would be set to be alphabetized automatically all the time. On capture to such a folder the new children will become part of the sort. Alphabetized folders will be typed as such in the METS file, which will allow continued support for the sorting in other systems, such as repositories.