DVR web UI issues with sorting 2020.10.14.0009

Channels DVR Server Troubleshooting
#1

Recordings>Shows>All Sorting by Name puts Alaska: The Last Frontier under 'L' instead of 'A'
Found more looking at Imported Shows
'Above the American' is sorted in the B's
'Alaska: Most Extreme' is sorted between K and L
'America Before Columbus' and 'America's Secret Swimming Holes' are sorted in the M's
'Arctic Roughnecks' and 'Area 51' are sorted between P and R
'Atlantis Found', 'Atlantis Rising' and 'Atlantis Rising: Secrets Decoded' are sorted between S and T

Recordings>Shows>All Sorting by Name doesn't toggle ascending and descending when you click the [Name] button again

Recordings>Recordings>All Sorts by recorded date with oldest at the top. Want to sort so newest is up top like Recordings>Recordings>Unwatched appears. Edwin_Perez also reported this

#2

In case having SeriesID helps

Sorts Showname                         SeriesID
B     Above the American               3559740
L     Alaska: Most Extreme             204319
L     Alaska: The Last Frontier        8989001
M     America Before Columbus          7872007
M     America's Secret Swimming Holes  11915925
R     Arctic Roughnecks                207043
R     Area 51                          207084
T     Atlantis Found                   14022979
T     Atlantis Rising                  13697963
T     Atlantis Rising: Secrets Decoded 15755410

EDIT: I see what's happening. It's dropping the Capitol letter A at the beginning, thinking it's the article 'A', even though there's no white space after the 'A'.

#3

Thanks for the bug report @chDVRuser! We were able to fix the alpha sorting bug and I just shipped a release that includes the fix. It also includes the fix for the Recordings>Recordings>All bug.

I don't think the sorting buttons used to toggle between ascending/descending before, but I like the idea and will talk about it with the team.

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#4

Correct. But, since the icon on the button leads one to believe that you can toggle between asc/desc, it would make sense to add this feature.

#5

Thanks, and I agree with @racameron that the 'sort by' buttons do look like you can sort either way, never really checked to see if they worked that way before.

#6

Still sorting from oldest recording on top to newest recording on bottom in 2020.10.16.0048

#7

Sorry about that @chDVRuser. Sorting by recent should work on Recordings>Recordings>All, Recordings>Show>All, and Recordings>Show>SPECIFIC_SHOW. This change is in the latest release v2020.10.16.1640.

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#8

Thanks. Confirmed working now!

#9

Channels DVR version 2020.11.23.1721
Viewing shows sorted by Name in the web UI: Recordings>Shows>All

Why would 'A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving' come between 'The Blue Ridge Parkway: A Long & Winding Road' and 'The Dark Side of the Sun' ???

#10

Because things like 'A' and 'The' as the first word are ignored.....

#11

Because the articles "A", "An" and "The" are ignored when sorting. So to Channels, the sort name is really "Charlie Brown Thanksgiving", with the initial article omitted; just as the other two titles are sorted as "Blue Ridge Parkway: A Long & Winding Road" and "Dark Side of the Sun".

#12

That's how I thought it should work, but it's being sorted in the T's

...
Steve Jobs -- One Last Thing
Sun Storm
Sunken Treasures of the Nile
Tommy Emmanuel: Across the US With PBS
Top Ten Most Extreme Places
Top Ten Ultimate Storms
Top Ten Weather Disasters
Top Ten Weather Mysteries
Top Ten Weather Wonders
Track Me if You Can
Transition of Power: The Presidency
Ultimate Air Jaws
The 44th President: In His Own Words
The Blue Ridge Parkway: A Long & Winding Road
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
The Dark Side of the Sun
The Farthest -- Voyager in Space
The Great Barrier Reef
The Ice Hotel
The Making of Planet Earth
The Mystery of the Afghan Gold
The Steve Irwin Story
The Volcano That Stopped the World
Untamed Alaska
Valley Uprising
...

After pasting this I also noticed 'Ultimate Air Jaws' looks out of place.

#13

Double checked and am seeing the same behavior using different devices and browsers (Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari).
This is only in the DVR web UI. The same shows sort correctly using the Channels iOS app on my iPad.

#14

So are you both saying the current results I get (and so should everyone else) are sorted correctly?
I bring up some issues and get no response from the devs, so don't know if they silently acknowledge my submissions and are thinking "Yah. we know it's an issue" because I can't read their minds so think I must be writing with invisible ink!

#15

No, your example is not what I would have expected. I would expect it to sort as if the 'A' and 'The' were not even there.

#16

Possible fix in v2020.11.25.1636

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#17

Thanks, verified it's working.
Wasn't pressing for a fix (since non-critical), was just looking for an acknowledgment.

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