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Smart content scrambled again

jhogenboom_da69c035a9jhogenboom_da69c035a9 Posts: 109
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I've gotten a few things in the last week or so and I decided today was a good day to test them out. So I went to smart content and I said sort by order date recent first and on the top I don't see the stuff I've bought in the last few days. I see some things I bought fairly recently. I see some things I bought several years ago. But I don't see yesterday's buys. What should I try? Thanks for your help.

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  • crosswindcrosswind Posts: 7,002

    Search the product by keyword or SKU first. If you could not find it, it means that no metadata was written into cms database. You may re-import metadata or reinstall the products with DIM.

  • jhogenboom_da69c035a9jhogenboom_da69c035a9 Posts: 109

    I did the re-import metadata and things look the same. How do you get the thing to sort by date correctly? Some of the stuff on the top of the sort by recent first I bought years ago.

  • benniewoodellbenniewoodell Posts: 1,969

    Oh wow, I had no idea you could sort stuff in smart content from when you bought it. It took me all of two seconds to find it after reading this, but I never knew about it until now. That is a nice feature. 

  • jhogenboom_da69c035a9jhogenboom_da69c035a9 Posts: 109

    Nice when it works. I'm trying to figure out why mine isn't. Right now one of the things closest to the top is something I bought in February of 2020. I'm not sorting by install date, I'm sorting by order date. I'm very confused.

  • SofaCitizenSofaCitizen Posts: 1,896

    jhogenboom_da69c035a9 said:

    I did the re-import metadata and things look the same. How do you get the thing to sort by date correctly? Some of the stuff on the top of the sort by recent first I bought years ago.

    I believe that the re-import from metadata won't include the order date as it only pulls data from the dsx files which do not have any dates saved in them. So it is set to NULL in the database. In addition, it would also set the release date, install date and last update dates to the date of re-import.

  • PerttiAPerttiA Posts: 10,024

    SofaCitizen said:

    jhogenboom_da69c035a9 said:

    I did the re-import metadata and things look the same. How do you get the thing to sort by date correctly? Some of the stuff on the top of the sort by recent first I bought years ago.

    I believe that the re-import from metadata won't include the order date as it only pulls data from the dsx files which do not have any dates saved in them. So it is set to NULL in the database. In addition, it would also set the release date, install date and last update dates to the date of re-import.

    If one logs in to DS, DAZ Connect will 'update' metadata and has in the past for example, messed up the dates. 

  • SofaCitizenSofaCitizen Posts: 1,896

    PerttiA said:

    SofaCitizen said:

    jhogenboom_da69c035a9 said:

    I did the re-import metadata and things look the same. How do you get the thing to sort by date correctly? Some of the stuff on the top of the sort by recent first I bought years ago.

    I believe that the re-import from metadata won't include the order date as it only pulls data from the dsx files which do not have any dates saved in them. So it is set to NULL in the database. In addition, it would also set the release date, install date and last update dates to the date of re-import.

    If one logs in to DS, DAZ Connect will 'update' metadata and has in the past for example, messed up the dates. 

    Eww, yes. I don't do that anymore as it messes up a lot of things.

  • jhogenboom_da69c035a9jhogenboom_da69c035a9 Posts: 109

    That explains it. This is a new computer and I thought I'd better log in. Silly me. Oh well, DIM sorts correctly by order date, so I can find the correct names there and type them into Smart Content. Thanks.

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