[Enhancement]: Support multiple series ordering (ie. Publication Order + Chronoligical Order) #866

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opened 2025-10-14 17:46:38 -06:00 by navan · 0 comments

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Originally created by @teotikalki on 12/27/2024

Type of Enhancement

Web Interface/Frontend

Describe the Feature/Enhancement

There are a lot of series which expand over time to include books/sets at various points in the series chronology. There are often heated debates amongst fans about whether the Publication Order or Chronological Order should be used as a reading order, often with differing opinions on first and second reads.

Currently, the only way I can see to to this is to create a second series (ie Honor Harrington: Publication Order + Honor Harrington: Chronological Order) in the UI, which is clunky.

Ideally, the series should exist only once and there should be the option to add multiple orderings (ie. Publication, Series).

Why would this be helpful?

My library is currently rather small but I have already run into this issue multiple times (Honor Harrington, Star Wars Legends, Dragonlance, the clusterf**k of subseries in C. J. Cherryh's Alliance-Union Universe).

If I'm willing to do the work to initially set the metadata for both orderings I would very much like to be able to look at a series, have it show my currently selected ordering, ie. 'Ordering: Publication Order' (where 'Publication Order' is my arbitrarily supplied string), and be able to click on that to switch to my other entered orderings (ie. Chronological Order).

Future Implementation (Screenshot)

I... have a completely non-visual mind. I believe that I described my vision in the above box.

Here is about as visual as I get:

Audiobookshelf Server Version

2.17.1

Current Implementation (Screenshot)

*Originally created by @teotikalki on 12/27/2024* ### Type of Enhancement Web Interface/Frontend ### Describe the Feature/Enhancement There are a lot of series which expand over time to include books/sets at various points in the series chronology. There are often heated debates amongst fans about whether the Publication Order or Chronological Order should be used as a reading order, often with differing opinions on first and second reads. Currently, the only way I can see to to this is to create a second series (ie Honor Harrington: Publication Order + Honor Harrington: Chronological Order) in the UI, which is clunky. Ideally, the series should exist only once and there should be the option to add multiple orderings (ie. Publication, Series). ### Why would this be helpful? My library is currently rather small but I have already run into this issue multiple times (Honor Harrington, Star Wars Legends, Dragonlance, the clusterf**k of subseries in C. J. Cherryh's Alliance-Union Universe). If I'm willing to do the work to initially set the metadata for both orderings I would very much like to be able to look at a series, have it show my currently selected ordering, ie. 'Ordering: Publication Order' (where 'Publication Order' is my arbitrarily supplied string), and be able to click on that to switch to my other entered orderings (ie. Chronological Order). ### Future Implementation (Screenshot) I... have a completely non-visual mind. I believe that I described my vision in the above box. Here is about as visual as I get: ![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/11f1a517-7e81-41b4-8d53-b545d5f00a5b) ### Audiobookshelf Server Version 2.17.1 ### Current Implementation (Screenshot) ![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/f98f8c70-9a39-4e01-8bdb-eb8b08a30eaf)