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Type to search collection to add game to / add option to sort them alphabetically

A topic by komehara created Feb 20, 2021 Views: 4,571 Replies: 2
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When you have many Collections, it becomes harder to add a game to a specific collection as you need to find it in a dropdown that sorts them by most recent usage to oldest usage (i.e. if you’ve just added game to collection C, C appears on top), not alphabetically.

I see two ways to make this easier:

  • make a hybrid search/dropdown field: type the beginning or part of the collection name to filter them out and possibly highlight the matching substring. Gamejolt does this when you click the + button “Add to Playlist”
  • add a button on the Add to Collection popup to toggle Alphabetical sorting instead of Chronological usage sorting. Gamejolt always sorts alphabetically, which I find easier, but if you want to keep the chronological sort then the toggle is a nice solution. Alternatively for users who always use one or the other, you can add the toggle in the User Preferences. But you can have it in both places too.
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You can already type in the collection selection field to filter by name, just click into it, hit backspace, then start typing. Hope that helps!

Ah, I see thank you. What was missing for me what the backspace! I was clicking in the middle of the word and saw no caret, so just thought it was not editable. I didn’t expect backspace to clear the full word, but it makes sense if we follow tag’s convention.

Maybe a colored background would help understand we’re dealing with a single chunk of text to delete. Problem is, this convention is used for tags (or email address “blocks” in clients like Gmail) and user may expect to be able to put multiple of them… but we can only put one category.

So I’ll go with this for now. Maybe it would be cool to auto-highlight the current category, so typing the first letter would immediately replace it with search text… I’m not sure if this is easy to do. If other users found out about Backspace, it should be fine too.