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Hey everyone 👋 I built a plugin to solve a problem that's been driving me crazy, and I'm hoping it helps some of you too.

The Problem

I have 31,000 games in LaunchBox across 70+ platforms. I use custom fields heavily—tracking what I'm playing, managing a backlog, tagging award winners, marking first-party releases, organizing by era. It's a metadata system that works really well for discovery and organization.
Except for one thing: actually maintaining it is miserable.

You know the drill:
Right-click → Edit → Custom Fields tab → scroll → find field → change value → OK

That's 6+ clicks per field. Per game. If you're tagging a batch of games, it takes even more steps. When managing a play queue across thousands of titles, the friction compounds fast. I'd put off updating my metadata because it just wasn't worth the hassle.

 

The Solution: QuickFieldToggle

QuickFieldToggle puts your custom field actions directly in the right-click context menu.
One click. Done.

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What It Does

✅ Single-click toggling — Toggle any custom field on/off instantly
✅ Create fields on-the-fly — No pre-setup needed, just define them in your config
✅ Multi-field actions — "Move to Now Playing" sets one field AND clears others
✅ Multi-value picker — For semicolon-separated fields, check/uncheck values from a submenu
✅ Conditional menus — Show "Nintendo Tools" only for Nintendo games
✅ Visual indicators — Checkmarks show current state
✅ Custom icons — Use platform icons or your own
✅ Hot reload — Edit config without restarting LaunchBox
✅ 100% JSON config — No coding required

 

Example Use Case

• Play Queue — "Move to Now Playing" / "Move to Backlog" / "On Deck" with mutual exclusivity
• Award Tracking — Quick-add awards from your existing values, auto-set "Any Award Won" flag
• Platform-Specific Tools — "First Party" toggle that only shows for Nintendo games
• Era Management — Set console generation, platform era, lifecycle phase
• Discovery Tags — "The Best" and "Discovery Bin" for standout titles

 

Download

Right here on the Launchbox Forums, or on GitHub: https://github.com/brandontravis/launchbox-quick-field-toggle
The download includes two sample configs:
• sample-simple.json — Basic play queue to get started
• sample-complex.json — My actual working config for 31k games

 

Installation

1. Download the latest release
2. Copy the QuickFieldToggle folder to your Plugins directory
3. Rename quickfieldtoggle.sample-simple.json to quickfieldtoggle.json
4. Restart LaunchBox
5. Right-click any game

 

Documentation

The GitHub repo has full documentation:
• Configuration Reference — All options, operators, and settings
• My Library Walkthrough — How I use QFT with 31k games, including my metadata philosophy and real examples

 

What's Next?

I'd love to hear your feedback. What custom field workflows would you like to automate? Any features you'd like to see?
If you try it out, let me know how it works for you. And if you run into issues, open a GitHub issue or reply here.
Enjoy! 
 


 

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