5.0.83 update now not sorting editors properly in Zotero display

djross3

I updated to 5.0.83 within the past 24 hours, and I just noticed something very strange with the ordering of entries within Zotero that's making it hard to (manually) search for particular references.

I typically sort by the author column. As far as I can tell my settings haven't changed.

But now entries with only editors (e.g. edited volumes) follow the rest of the entries at the bottom, in random (not alphabetized-by-name) order. I think this relates to some posts I've seen on the forums recently about issues with displaying the editor names in Zotero. Is it possible that correcting that also reset something so that sort-by-creator is now limited to sort-by-author?

Note for clarity: the editor names do display in the Creator column, but they just are skipped over for sorting order.

(I don't know if a debug ID or similar would be helpful in this case. Let me know if you need more information or a screen capture.)

dstillman

https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/349592/#Comment_349592

djross3

OK, thanks. I meant to add that this is a new problem for me since the update, but if it's already fixed in the beta and upcoming version then that should be fine!

dstillman

There was a problem starting in 5.0.78 where editors weren't used for sorting in newly created databases. In 5.0.83 we tried to fix that, and did for items with a single editor, but in the process broke sorting of items with multiple editors for everyone (new and old databases). 5.0.84 will fix it properly for everyone.

dstillman

This is fixed now in Zotero 5.0.84.