Thread:Project:Support desk/Extension for enabling alphabetization of sub-categories under the full Sort Key instead of the first letter of the Sort Key./reply (5)

>Sorry to be a wise-ass ;)

lol, being a wise-ass is where all the fun is ;)

But, I think there's two different things we're talking about. There's the big subheadings on the category page, which is always just a single letter. Then there is the actual sortkey, which except for the first letter is invisible to the user (but controls the order in which things appear in the category)

For example, if we had three pages in a category, with sortkey Bob, Bad, Baz, it'd look like

B

 * Bad
 * Baz
 * Bob

All three have different sortkeys (which determines Bad comes before Baz and Bob), but they all sort under the first letter of their sortkey.

The difference between 1.17 and 1.16, is if you have three pages all with the same sortkey, say Bob, Bob, and Bob: before they were sorted randomly, now we use what the real page's name is as a tie breaker. (To be technical, the page name is just plopped on the end of whatever the pages normal sortkey is).