5. Sort order: The Sort number can be now seen by hovering your mouse over any chap's title. It will be shown on the right after the vertical bar line.
Image of it: In the image, the sorting of all chaps are correct. It show that chap 48 is sorted at 8048. the other group following it.
Intro: Since volumes and chapters sometimes are weird (i.e., chapter 3a, 3b, or Omakes, etc.), the comics are NOT sorted by the volume/chapter number. They are sorted by a special "sort number".
The Default Rules: By default, if you leave the "sort order" field blank, then:
A) if there is no volume listed, the sort number is equivalent to the chapter number;
If there is a volume number, the sort number is determined by the following formula:
s = 1000v + c
where s is the sort number, v is the volume number, and c is the chapter number.
Typically you should leave the sort order blank in the uploader and just let the default formulas work.
They are the default rules because they work well under the typical situation.
Decimals: Batoto allows decimals in the sort order, so you can use 15.5 or even 25.01
When To Manually Sort: Circumstances such as an omake chapter or chapters 17a and 17b that do not have clear numerical values need the uploader to manually type in a sort number.
Another reason to manually sort is if there are a mix of volume and non-volume uploads. For example, if Volume 12, Chapter 100 of Comic X is already on Batoto,it will have a sort order of 12100 by default. If you want to upload chapter 150 and don't know the volume number, then you must manually set the sort order, probably to 12150. This is because chapter 150 without a volume will default to a sort order of 150. This is less than 12100, and so, Batoto will list vol 0 chp 150 BEFORE vol 12 chp 100.
Please make sure all your uploads is consistent with the other groups' sort order for the chap[s].