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product library "sort by" options

manekiNekomanekiNeko Posts: 1,453
edited March 20 in The Commons

i will have to reinstall daz completely. win10 laptop crash, change to linux, too old machine anyway to reinstall now. but hopefully new 2nd hand laptop in summer..

thing is, i have a lot of really old products. some i purchased years ago because they were still kinda recent, and i wanted them. i also have a whole bunch of freebies from the biweeklies that i purchases because hey, free, and who knows, maybe i'll need that particular item once in a scene - better from daz/dim than obscure uncategprized freebies i never remember nor find in my contents panel. and then there are the super sales at 80% price where i buy stuff that is probably less ancient but still not highest SKU wise.

so if i reinstall, i will literally pick out what i want, and this will very probably include/strat from the newest stuff, and then continue decreasingly towards older stuff - or not.

problem being.. in my PRODUCT LIBRARY, not dim or a fancy app, i can sort by name (obvs not adequate for that scenario), or by purchase date. latter would make sense IF i purchased stuff as they're published/sold. but since there is a lot of old clutter in-betweent recent stuff, this sorting is useless too.

so 1st, WHY does daz/product library not offer the sorting choice by SKU/date of release??? and what do i do now when i wanna reinstall by newest product?
apart from doing it from DIM i guess...

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  • memcneil70memcneil70 Posts: 5,690

    @manekiNeko, by any chance do you have your shopping carts or download documents and if not, can you use your Order History?

    I have recently gone through this on my MacMini M4 and then a Windows 11 and did clean new installs of my products, including freebies and other site purchases. I started with the Default Resources that DIM has you do, and made sure they were in the correct paths and after that I had DIM sorted by Order Date and my online Product Library also by Order Date. I had to be careful not to exceed a certain amount during the month, so I had to be careful. After the essential stuff, I went for my plug-ins, scripts, Genesis Core characters, and then it was selecting by type of product an assortment (environments, hairs, poses, wardrobe, ...) so I would have some stuff to play with. But I avoided items I knew I hadn't used EVER, or had caused me issues, it took me around five months for half of my Runtime. And that is cleaning up missing metadata, thumbnails and stuff. I still have others to install. 

    I do agree with you it would be so much easier to be able to match DIM and the Product Library's sorts up. The closest I got was selecting a PA's store and pulling up everything I own. Or using key words in DIM for specific items. The hardest is texture sets that are bought separate from the main item and don't have a clean name connection. I am still tracking those down.

    Mary

  • manekiNekomanekiNeko Posts: 1,453

    memcneil70 said:

    @manekiNeko, by any chance do you have your shopping carts or download documents and if not, can you use your Order History?

    I have recently gone through this on my MacMini M4 and then a Windows 11 and did clean new installs of my products, including freebies and other site purchases. I started with the Default Resources that DIM has you do, and made sure they were in the correct paths and after that I had DIM sorted by Order Date and my online Product Library also by Order Date. I had to be careful not to exceed a certain amount during the month, so I had to be careful. After the essential stuff, I went for my plug-ins, scripts, Genesis Core characters, and then it was selecting by type of product an assortment (environments, hairs, poses, wardrobe, ...) so I would have some stuff to play with. But I avoided items I knew I hadn't used EVER, or had caused me issues, it took me around five months for half of my Runtime. And that is cleaning up missing metadata, thumbnails and stuff. I still have others to install. 

    I do agree with you it would be so much easier to be able to match DIM and the Product Library's sorts up. The closest I got was selecting a PA's store and pulling up everything I own. Or using key words in DIM for specific items. The hardest is texture sets that are bought separate from the main item and don't have a clean name connection. I am still tracking those down.

    Mary

    i'm sorry to hear you had to go through this too.. and well, if i use DIM i can sort differently/more efficiently, like by SKU. thank you for having mentioned the textures tho, i might have overlooked that. i have probably most of my zips on a usb or two, like emergency rescues, but i'd prefer a clean install through DIM, even if that means redownload - those i have can stay as backup. 

    it's not for tomorrow anyway. i knew i wouldn't reinstall on this old acer again because it never was optimal, and now i'm on linux so it's twice as complicated so even if i had reinstalled it would be a pain... but i just learned today that my old nvidia won't even work any more on the newest linux, no drivers supported. so we'll see this summer or later, if/when i can afford a "new" old laptop :/

  • TaozTaoz Posts: 10,302
    edited March 22

    If you want to try a (free) "fancy app" anyway, this one can sort your products by SKU, plus generate a SKU string for the products you select which you can paste into DIM so you can install them all automatically in one go.  Downloading the complete product list takes less than a minute and then you'll have the product names and their SKUs.  If you need more product info you can download the library pages for the products you select (and the product pages/promos if you want even more). 

    Demo video: https://app.screencast.com/owhZSn6rdnH4l

     

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  • manekiNekomanekiNeko Posts: 1,453

    Taoz said:

    If you want to try a (free) "fancy app" anyway, this one can sort your products by SKU, plus generate a SKU string for the products you select which you can paste into DIM so you can install them all automatically in one go.  Downloading the complete product list takes less than a minute and then you'll have the product names and their SKUs.  If you need more product info you can download the library pages for the products you select (and the product pages/promos if you want even more). 

    Demo video: https://app.screencast.com/owhZSn6rdnH4l

     

    thx for the heads up! 

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