Re: [mb-users] Sorting sub-works and more generally ARs

Earlier we have news of attributes to works and now this. Looks like
Christmas must have come early :)

As for how to implement this, the simple way would be a numerical attribute
in attribute for the Work is a part of work relationship. It might not
gracefully handle one making a mistake and entering the same number to two
the sub-works though... Also editing mistakes or adding a work in the
middle would be a pain in the a**.

The best solution would that as soon as a work has 2 or more parts related
to it, that an option appears on the right hand-side to re-order the parts.
Clicking on it would bring a small GUI and we could move them similarly to
how he we currently move tracks on a tracklist. The actual ordering value
could be kept internal to MB and not be editable by hand.

As for sub-hierarchies, I'd be happy with having to treat each sub-hearchy
separately. Although it would be nice obvously if you go to the top of the
tree, click on the re-order and see the whole tree...

Makes sense?

Sebastien



On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 8:37 AM, Frederic Da Vitoria <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> http://tickets.musicbrainz.org/browse/MBS-3375 is more than 2 years old.
> It seems it is stuck because nobody is sure how it should be implemented. I
> feel many important things are clumsily patched (or not addressed at all)
> because we lack ordering. I'd like to revive the discussion about this and
> hopefully not have yet another schema change without it.
>
> Here is my suggestion: add a simple number to ARs which could be used by
> the AR types which we find relevant. This number would of course be used
> for ordering.
>
> Why not a string allowing for things like "2.1.5"? Because I am not
> currently convinced that smart sorting on strings such as this would be the
> correct way to handle sub-hierarchies.
>
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