Schedules Direct channel mapping - sort by name?

[daneo]

Hi Sub,

I've moved to SD as I could not get the genre mapping from Clickfinder working -- the Clickfinder team keeps "inventing" genres and keeping up was a nightmare.

The SD lineup for my cable provider has hundreds channels, and they seem to come up in the channel mapper in a random order (or some order from SD which is not evident) -- all I am seeing is a listing similar to

0 - ZDFGER
0 - ARDALP

and it's driving me crazy trying to decipher which abbreviation would apply, especially when the list has hundreds of entires.

Some questions:

1. Can you find a way to sort the SD channel abbreviation listing in the channel mapper alphabetically?
2. Does SD have a more verbose channel name description available?

For the SD team here, I'm in Germany in 60318 Frankfurt and using the Unity Media digital cable list.

Thanks,
Dane

[sub]

Can you post a screenshot which demonstrates what you're getting?

[mvallevand]

Can you post a screenshot which demonstrates what you're getting?

I think those callsign letters he posted are what he sees, he probably wants to see the name.

As an example we are kind of used to call signs here in North America and you show CBNEWS for this pair from the station list

<callSign>CBNEWS</callSign>
<name>CBC News Network</name>

There might be trouble matching logos to the name

Martin

[sub]

Can you see if this helps?

[daneo]

Hi Sub,

excellent! Now I can see the proper names and not just the short codes.

Would you be able to sort the listing as well? This would be the icing on the cake...

Thanks,
Dane

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[sub]

Would you be able to sort the listing as well? This would be the icing on the cake...

It's usually sorted by channel number, but for whatever reason, there are no channel numbers supplied with the German data, so all the channel numbers are zero.

[daneo]

If you can sort by name, that will be enough -- it's murder to try and find all of the variants when they are in no particular order -- I know it's a minor ask, but would be nice if you can put this on your backlog list.

[sub]

If you can sort by name, that will be enough -- it's murder to try and find all of the variants when they are in no particular order -- I know it's a minor ask, but would be nice if you can put this on your backlog list.

I guess I could look into doing this if the channel numbers are not supplied by Schedules Direct.