ZimFreak Posted September 19, 2015 Author Share Posted September 19, 2015 I absolutely love launch box but I there's one little snag that keeps annoying me. I can't for the life of me figure out how to order by date added with the newest games on top. This is always how I've sorted my games because it makes it easy to quickly jump into whatever is the newest game that came out that I'm currently into. As it is now, I have it arranged by 'date added' and I just scroll to the bottom of the list every time I launch Launch Box. Seems like a relatively easy addition to add an descending sort, and I would really appreciate it. Thanks for all you guys do, Zim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted September 19, 2015 Share Posted September 19, 2015 Custom Filter's will let you sort by the year it was released. It will let you select 2015, 2014 etc but that's as far as this will let you as of right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 Hi @ZimFreak, you're right, it's kind of stupid as-is. I'll add it to my list; hopefully I can reverse it before the 5.3 official. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZimFreak Posted September 21, 2015 Author Share Posted September 21, 2015 Awesome thank you so much. I'll be looking forward to it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 Hi @ZimFreak, I have this done; it should be in the next beta. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookw Posted July 31, 2016 Share Posted July 31, 2016 This never made it in, did it? Would be useful... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted August 1, 2016 Share Posted August 1, 2016 Hi @bookw, this did make it in, actually. All that was requeste was to reverse the sort order for Date Added. What were you looking for specifically? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookw Posted August 1, 2016 Share Posted August 1, 2016 On further examination a "Date Added" sort does sort newest to oldest, I mixed that up with "Release Date." I was hoping to have the option when I select sort by Release Year (or any sorting option) to reverse the sort so any sort could be A-Z or Z-A... don't know how much work that would be. Though it would be particularly nice for Release Year if nothing else, it's a neat sort, and it makes a little sense to have an option where all the newer games show up first, as great as all those games from the 80s and 90s are, my newer purchases are usually more relevant. :) Also, I guess while I have your attention, is there a way to sort it alphabetically without special groupings by a custom field (like "sort name" and sort name would just be generally the same as the game title, but in cases of a series of games with non-numerical naming that causes the games to go in a bad order, you could enforce numerical naming with the sort field tag, without having to resort to an incorrect title, to sort the series in the desired order (usually chronologically, but however you'd like)). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 Hi @bookw, we do need a way to reverse the sort order in general, so I think that would be the best solution there. I'm not following your second paragraph; sorry for that. Can you re-phrase it for me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookw Posted August 11, 2016 Share Posted August 11, 2016 (edited) Say you have a series of games that you want to appear in order by their place in the series. But the titles of the games aren't released in an alphabetical sequence (like the Fire Emblem games for example which don't use numbers in the subtitles vs say Final Fantasy which would have numbering in it, but I'm not certain it properly parses roman numerals so "IX" comes after "VIII"? If it does that's great) so the Title sort puts them out order and you get the 4th game in the series listing first, and so on. Sure, you could probably force a sort by giving them custom titles, but I'd prefer just to leave the title to be correct. So I could make a custom field called "Sort Title," and put the custom title there, but I believe sorting by this custom field would cause every game to appear in it's own row if I'm not mistaken, instead of grouping them in one big bunch like Title sort? I guess I was trying out the "Series" sort too, and it just wastes too much space for my liking for games that aren't in a series (you get tons of rows with just one item). Maybe it would be nice to have all the entries that have less than two games in the series fall to the bottom in a single group? Edited August 11, 2016 by bookw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted August 11, 2016 Share Posted August 11, 2016 Hi @bookw, there is already a Sort Title field on games that you can use to adjust the sorting manually. It's in the Other tab when editing games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookw Posted August 11, 2016 Share Posted August 11, 2016 I guess that's what I get for not looking harder, sorry! But thanks for help and if you eventually do the more advanced sorting options then I'd be even happier with the program, it is useful in these sorts of apps (reverse sorting), maybe even being able to select a second and third sort field, so you could really customize the order of the list. Thanks again for the help and sorry for the trouble! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted August 11, 2016 Share Posted August 11, 2016 No worries! I agree that more sorting options would definitely be useful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awboss Posted September 7, 2018 Share Posted September 7, 2018 Did this ever end up getting added? Would love to sort by descending and have my newer games show up first Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strathos70 Posted June 6, 2020 Share Posted June 6, 2020 Hello, any news about sorting by release date with newer games on top? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted June 8, 2020 Share Posted June 8, 2020 There was a similar item on the latest community poll, but unfortunately it did not get many votes (was basically just an option to reverse the sort order). Noted though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annluan Posted June 26, 2021 Share Posted June 26, 2021 Still nothing, guys? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyrie0 Posted December 2, 2021 Share Posted December 2, 2021 Any news on this? I'd love to be able to sort on Release Date with the most recent games on top. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted December 2, 2021 Share Posted December 2, 2021 8 minutes ago, eyrie0 said: Any news on this? I'd love to be able to sort on Release Date with the most recent games on top. Yes this is in the program. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyrie0 Posted December 2, 2021 Share Posted December 2, 2021 2 hours ago, neil9000 said: Yes this is in the program. How do I do it? When I have a playlist and set the sort order to Release Date, the oldest games show up on top. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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