Add “IS NOT” Condition to Quick Filters

📋 Summary

Currently, LaunchBox’s quick filters only allow users to filter by what a field is — there’s no option to exclude values using an “IS NOT” condition. This request proposes adding support for inverse filtering, making it faster and more intuitive to exclude unwanted entries.


🎯 Feature Overview

  • Add a new condition type: “IS NOT” to the quick filter logic.

  • Available for fields with predefined values (e.g. Platform, Progress Status, Region).

  • Functionally the opposite of “IS” — users select one or more values to exclude from results.


🛠 Example Use Cases

  • Show all games except Windows titles by filtering: Platform IS NOT Windows.

  • Filter out games with a Progress Status of “Dropped” or “Won’t Play”:

    Progress IS NOT Dropped, Progress IS NOT Won’t Play.

  • Exclude a specific genre or developer from your search without selecting every other value manually.


📦 Benefits

  • Greatly simplifies the process of excluding specific categories or tags.

  • Saves time, especially for users with large libraries and many options to filter through.

  • Improves discoverability by allowing users to filter out known items they’re not interested in.

  • Brings LaunchBox’s filtering capabilities more in line with advanced search systems.

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LaunchBox for Windows

Date

7 months ago

Author

AstroBob

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