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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Off the top of my head, a couple of options:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">An automatic field to use as an ordervalue -- https://wiki.eprints.org/w/Training_Video:Automatic_Fields<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">A custom render function on the browse list -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap_u7_MCnhI&feature=youtu.be&t=15m59s<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">The custom render function could simply reorder the list of items then pass it through to the default render function, but you’ll have to experiment for that. The first option is simpler,
the second option more interesting </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings">J</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Corbel;color:#2C3841">Adam Field</span></b><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">From: </span>
</b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black"><eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk> on behalf of Michael Street <mstreet@yorku.ca><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>"eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk" <eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk><br>
<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, 7 June 2016 16:13<br>
<b>To: </b>"eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk" <eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[EP-tech] Ignores "The" when sorting<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Is there a way to have eprints NOT ignore the word "the" when sorting
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<p class="MsoNormal">titles? I have a view set up to be ordered by "title/creators_name" but
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<p class="MsoNormal">I would like the titles to be truly sorted by the first letter and not
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<p class="MsoNormal">have the word "the" ignored.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Let me know thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Mike<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">*** Options: <a href="http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/eprints-tech">
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<p class="MsoNormal">*** EPrints community wiki: <a href="http://wiki.eprints.org/">
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<p class="MsoNormal">*** EPrints developers Forum: <a href="http://forum.eprints.org/">
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