Organizing rolls from iPhoto, in Aperture

I recently got the trial Aperture and imported my iPhoto film rolls. I have all my rolls organized by date of the roll. I have moved pictures between rolls to group them. This way it is sort of like an album.
In Aperture you can organize pictures by every criteria but date of film roll imported. Does anybody know how to keep my original pictures within their iPhoto rolls and alpha date the collections by film roll data?
I want each roll in the browser to have all the pictures (even with differnet dates) in the same group.
aehaas

Aperture's workflow is different, as is its organizational structure. iPhoto's rolls metaphor is fundamentally not as effective for many photographers, who are event or project based.
OK, so what to do ...
I would suggest you map rolls to projects. Essentially a project is a container for images for shots on a day or series of days. Since it sounds like you have rolls which would on the one hand consolidate into a project and on the other maybe span projects, some decisions will be necessary.
To get visibility back to your rolls structure, you could then use Albums. Albums can contain images (more correctly pointers to the image in a project) from one project or multiple projects.
Using this structure should allow you to see thematic or event groupings (projects) and the more discrete roll structure (albums).
Above all this, you could have a Folder container for the year, where all projects and albums for a year are held within a folder for that year.
G.

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