My list of games is not sorted correctly by title

[jotajs]

I have the problem in launchbox and bigbox, do you know how I can fix it?

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[neil9000]

4 minutes ago, jotajs said:

I have the problem in launchbox and bigbox, do you know how I can fix it?

A picture is worth a thousand words.

 

 

That is correct, the leading article like "The" and "A" are ignored when sorting.

[C-Beats]

If for some reason you DON'T want you titles sorted that way (ignoring leading articles) you can set that titles Sort Title to match it's title and it will sort the way you are wanting.

[13ondy]

On 5/2/2022 at 1:55 PM, C-Beats said:

If for some reason you DON'T want you titles sorted that way (ignoring leading articles) you can set that titles Sort Title to match it's title and it will sort the way you are wanting.

How do you do this I can't seem to figure it out, sorry complete newbie

[C-Beats]

Select the game, press Ctrl+E on your keyboard. In the Edit window that appears copy the title from the upper most control on the right hand side. Then on the left hand list of pages find "Sort Title" and click it. In the new page that appears paste the value into the only control on that page. Press OK on the window to close it and save the changes.

[13ondy]

Awsome thank you so much.

[Amoebiuss]

Anyway we could automate this option? Plex had the same problem at one point but that can be changed. Going game by game and checking if you want to ignore 'the' 'an' is tedious. Would greatly appreciate it

[emperorgr]

On 3/8/2023 at 11:48 PM, C-Beats said:

Select the game, press Ctrl+E on your keyboard. In the Edit window that appears copy the title from the upper most control on the right hand side. Then on the left hand list of pages find "Sort Title" and click it. In the new page that appears paste the value into the only control on that page. Press OK on the window to close it and save the changes.

that is true, however if you for example, delete the list and re-import all manual changes are lost and you need to re-do one by one, why launchbox wont add an option when sorting to sort with the "THE" in mind?

[C-Beats]

1 hour ago, emperorgr said:

that is true, however if you for example, delete the list and re-import all manual changes are lost and you need to re-do one by one, why launchbox wont add an option when sorting to sort with the "THE" in mind?

Because sorting with THE (or any other article) being left in the start of the word and actually used in the sort logic isn't the standard way of sorting anywhere that I'm aware of so we built the program to follow common accepted sort logic, and gave the option to other uses that they can do their own thing with it if they wanted.

[emperorgr]

How about then, storing all manual changes to the cloud and after re-importing the same files...apply those manual changes automatically?

[JoeViking245]

35 minutes ago, emperorgr said:

How about then, storing all manual changes to the cloud and after re-importing the same files...apply those manual changes automatically?

You can essentially do that by enabling backups.

Tools < Options < Data < Backups

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If enabled, LaunchBox will automatically back up the contents of the LaunchBox\Data folder on startup and shutdown of both
LaunchBox and Big Box.

The backup files are located in the LaunchBox\Backups folder, and up to 25 of them may be kept at any one time.

This is useful in case you happen to make a critical mistake while managing your database, or if the LaunchBox data files somehow
become corrupted due to a power outage or a forced shutdown.

To restore a backup filer simply navigate to Tools File Management > Restore Data Backup in the LaunchBox interface.

 

[C-Beats]

Alternatively could ask around and see if some one could write a plugin that just sets the sort title equal to the game title. Whole plugin would take 5m to write and is only like 10 lines of actual code (if that) to do really well. Then just push a button and all games that don't have a sort title already set it could just set it to the actual title and then solve your problem. I've seen the community tackle far more complex tasks for odder requests.

[C-Beats]

Meh, didn't want to answer the follow up questions about how to do it as answering would take more time than it did for me to make the plugin outright. Attached is a plugin with the logic mentioned. It'll set the sort title of any game that doesn't have a sort title set already to be the exact same as the title of the game which will make the games sort the way you want. Just extract the dll file into the \\LaunchBox\Plugins folder (NOT in any subfolder) with LB closed. When you open it again you'll have a new option at the bottom of the Tools menu that says "Set Sort Title Equal To Title". Press that and you're done. I'd recommend creating a backup before you do it incase you change your mind though.

LB_SortTitleInject.zip

[emperorgr]

23 hours ago, C-Beats said:

Meh, didn't want to answer the follow up questions about how to do it as answering would take more time than it did for me to make the plugin outright. Attached is a plugin with the logic mentioned. It'll set the sort title of any game that doesn't have a sort title set already to be the exact same as the title of the game which will make the games sort the way you want. Just extract the dll file into the \\LaunchBox\Plugins folder (NOT in any subfolder) with LB closed. When you open it again you'll have a new option at the bottom of the Tools menu that says "Set Sort Title Equal To Title". Press that and you're done. I'd recommend creating a backup before you do it incase you change your mind though.

LB_SortTitleInject.zip 2.35 kB · 0 downloads

that worked great, it was so easy thanks!!

[emperorgr]

next fix would be to improve the auto import function, now seems kinda broken, it imports, DLL files, txt, it would be great to select which file types are possible roms to import (like, zip, chd, cue, etc)