change display order of author roles

[Zombanana]

Describe your suggested feature

I would need to change the position of "authors".

The standard order of creators is something like that:

• writers
• pencillers
• inkers
• letterers
• editors

Now let assume, I want add a custom field, for example "Artists" and not to use the fields "pencilers" and "inkers".
The order would look like this:

• Writers:
• Colorist:
• Letterers:
• Editors:
• Artists:

Would it be possible to implement manual "ordering" for the custom fields.
This way I could create a order like this:

• Writers:
• Artists:
• Colorists:
• Letterers:
• Editors:

Since the writers and artists are the most important creators of a comic, i don't like them to see on last bottom position :/.
I know, there is a workaround just to create the other roles under the "Artists" field, but that is a hell of work to create all roles manually :/

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[gotson]

I don't quite understand, is that in the Edit Book dialog?

[Zombanana]

Check this Image:
The "Custom Roles" (in this picture Artists, Colorists, Letterers) are under the "original roles" (pencillers, inkers, colorists, letterers, cover, etc).

I would be very happy if I could change the position of my custom role "Artists" in this example directly under "writers".
It should look like this:

I can achieve this by creating the same roles as custom roles and let the "original roles" blank.
But this is kinda dirty workaround.

It would be cool to add some kind of arrows to positions the order of the roles.

Hope this helps better to understand what I mean?^^

[gotson]

i honestly don't quite understand why the default doesn't work for you.

You say:

Since the writers and artists are the most important creators of a comic, i don't like them to see on last bottom position

but Writer is the first, and Penciller (which is the same as Artist) is the second. They are literally at the top.