Editing Text to Control the Sort Order of Records

By default, Horizon sorts records found in a search by nonalphabetical characters first, followed by alphabetical characters from left to right.

Here are ways that you can change the sort order of items:

Use a nonfiling indicator in the second indicator position of the title field. These indicators determine how many leading characters Horizon ignores when it creates a list that you can browse alphabetically. (For instructions, see Editing Components of a MARC Record . For more information about nonfiling indicators, see Understanding Indicators.)
Enter nonsorting delimiters around characters or words in a field that you want displayed, but not used for sorting. (For example, if you want an author whose last name is MacDonald to display as “MacDonald” but to sort with authors whose name is “McDonald,” enter the “a” between these delimiters.)
Enter sorting-only delimiters around characters or words in a field that you want sorted, but not displayed. (For example, if a title begins with the number “8,” you can have it sort by but not display the word “eight.” Enter “eight” between these delimiters with the number “8” just following.)

To edit text to control the sort order of records in staff searching

1 Open a MARC record.
2 Click where you want to insert the sort delimiters.
3 Do one of these options:
If you want to enter nonsorting delimiters, choose Edit, Insert Delimiters, Non‑Sorting.
If you want to enter sorting-only delimiters, choose Edit, Insert Delimiters, Sorting‑Only.

Horizon inserts the delimiters and puts the insertion pointer between them.

4 Enter the appropriate characters between the delimiters.

 


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