How to sort games by series (as shown by video below)

[AncientCarthage]

Hi everyone, I'm trying to figure out how I can sort my games by series (and other forms of sorting) in Launchbox.  This recent video by ETA prime showcases what I'm trying to accomplish (5:09).  Anyone know how to do this?

 

Edited October 8, 2021 by AncientCarthage

[sundogak]

Just use the filter option, the funnel icon to the right of the Search box. 

Or if want it to be a permanent list then use the Playlist feature.  Right click on left pane where platforms are listed and select Add, then New Playlist and you can make a playlist with various conditions. For example the playlist below sorts all games in entire collection that have Donkey Kong in title of game.  

 

 

A relatively new feature with the "funnel" sort option is that once you select what you want, you can save that sort query to a playlist and LB figures out what to put in the Auto-Populate settings.  

[AncientCarthage]

My Launchbox doesn't come with the same default sorting categories, that's what I'm trying to fix.  I'd rather have LB do it than painstakingly create every series playlist myself

A picture of my launchbox for reference:

[C-Beats]

That realtime filter functionality takes values your games already have on them and places them in the filter. Those values you see in the release video are values ETA already had on his games. Most of the fields are scraped already for him via the import or download metadata tool. Some like series may have been manually added. You don't need to create the playlist manually, but you MAY need to assign the series values on your games manually.