How do you add custom tags to games at global level that can be applied between platforms?

[3dlollo]

I want to create some custom tags/parameters that can be applied to games at global level; so I can apply this tag basically to any game in any platform running on any emulator.

I tried to look in the prefs but didn't find a specific area to do that. If I change the metadata of the game there is a "custom field" area there, but if you add it to the game you have to add it manually to the other billion games you eventually want to add that tag to; while I was hoping there was an easier way to do that, like right click-> apply tag for example (or mass-apply tag of sort).

I find those already in the app useful, but I want to make my own, to further divide the games across platforms into different categories/genres/types that I see fit, but I can't really see how this can be done, without change manually EVERY single game one by one in their metadata (and not even sure if that is then working if I want to filter only the games with that tag.

TL:DR I want to pick games, add them something like "favorite" tag (one or more) across platforms and then be able to get a list only of these games, exactly as I would do if I was using the "favorite" tag for example. Is this possible or do I have to write my own parser outside Launchbox that would make these changes to the metadata for each game? Thanks

[JoeViking245]

17 minutes ago, 3dlollo said:

If I change the metadata of the game there is a "custom field" area there, but if you add it to the game you have to add it manually to the other billion games you eventually want to add that tag to; while I was hoping there was an easier way to do that, like right click-> apply tag for example (or mass-apply tag of sort).

Sounds like you're after some sort of bulk edit feature. Say you added a Custom Field to game and named it "Worth Playing?" and set the Value to "Yes".  Now you want to have a billion other games have that same Custom Field and Value ("Yes").

What I'd do is add a Custom Field to game and name it "Worth Playing?" and set the Value to "Yes".  Then for the other games I want to have that same Custom Field, select those other games then either right-click one of the then and select Edit, or press Ctrl+E to start the Bulk Edit Wizard.  In the Field dropdown, search for and select that Custom Field and for the Value, type "Yes".

When looking at the Fields in the dropdown, you'll see what other fields/metadata you can have changed, all at once.

[3dlollo]

Thanks; so this could work with the custom fields then.

Would there be at any point in time an option in the UI to right click on a game and add a specific field directly from the contextual menu (or even better, using a keyboard shortcut)? That would really speed up greatly the process.

These are changes you mostly do once when you set up your collection, but I can see value in quick change for fields changes in other situations too. And if it is an option you can toggle, you could set it on, do your assignments and then just turn it off when you are done, cleaning up the menu from extra stuff that you won't be needing at that point

[JoeViking245]

1 hour ago, 3dlollo said:

Would there be at any point in time an option in the UI to right click on a game and add a specific field directly from the contextual menu (or even better, using a keyboard shortcut)?

Anything's possible.  Best thing you can do is, at the top of this page, click Help & Support < Request a Feature.  You will need to login into BitBucket, which is a separate login than the forums (which is also separate from the LB Game Database).