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.cff entries are ordered by order of addition, not using a standard order #861

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JaroCamphuijsen opened this issue Oct 23, 2023 · 2 comments
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When generating the .cff file through the web app, the fields (at least the author sub-fields) are sorted by the order of addition. That means if I first add institution, and then the family name, I will get the author fields ordered in that way on my generated .cff file as well.

authors:
  - given-names: Someone
    affiliation: Awesome University
    family-names: Smith
    email: someone.smith@awesome-u.nl
    orcid: 'https://orcid.org/0000-0000-0000-0000'
  - given-names: Jaro
    family-names: Camphuijsen
    email: j.camphuijsen@esciencecenter.nl
    affiliation: Netherlands eScience Center
    orcid: 'https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8928-7831'

Instead it would be more desirable to have a standard order of these fields, because having various authors with different sub-field ordering makes the file unnecessarily chaotic.

authors:
  - given-names: Someone
    family-names: Smith
    email: someone.smith@awesome-u.nl
    affiliation: Awesome University
    orcid: 'https://orcid.org/0000-0000-0000-0000'
  - given-names: Jaro
    family-names: Camphuijsen
    email: j.camphuijsen@esciencecenter.nl
    affiliation: Netherlands eScience Center
    orcid: 'https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8928-7831'
@abelsiqueira abelsiqueira added the user experience Any issue related to UX label Oct 23, 2023
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Thanks for creating the issue

@JaroCamphuijsen
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I tried again, and the issue is hard to reproduce, right now, they are actually ordered in appearance in the form, but something made my first entry shuffle them around.

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