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@sunset-painter wrote:Something happened to the BBL and all the ID's are jumbled up. Is there a way to re-alphabetize them? Thanks!
Mine is a jumbled mess too since they updated the BBL page. The text at the top of the screen is in a different font than it used to be although it seems to say exactly the same thing as it used to.
I tried using to restore the list after copying and pasting my list to notepad but it didn't fix the issue.
The only way to get the user IDs alphabetical again is to do it the hard way and even then I am not sure that they will stay that way.
Yeah Ebay enhanced them the other day & made a total mess of them! Why the changes, who knows? The font is different, the breaks are ridiculous, the order is bizarre.
I really, REALLY wish they would focus on fixing broken stuff & not breaking stuff that works just fine!!!
I'll bet Ebay doesn't even know that their 'update' has made it a royal mess. I wish I could remember the EBay guy's name to 'page', so they could tell us WHY they made a ridiculous mess of it & if it's going to be fixed?
ETA: I would NOT change them or 'fix' them b/c this was an intentional Ebay change, scary as that is. If you change the order, you risk it reverting or worse, not being used the way they are intended.
Are they still delimited? If so, they can be saved to a txt file in notepad and can be imported into an Excel page. Excel can re-alphabetize them and can re-export to a comma-delimited file.
Or, I could write a little utility to do that.
@shipscript Yes they are still comma delineated. I have a feeling it will revert each time a new member is added, that, of course, is just a guess.
It doesn't bother me since once they are on the list I just forget about them.
@comics-scifi-collectibles wrote:@shipscript Yes they are still comma delineated. I have a feeling it will revert each time a new member is added, that, of course, is just a guess.
Good to know the commas are still there. After rearranging and saving my list, eBay put them back into the order they chose, which is the age of the account. So oldest accounts sort first.
For those who need to see their list alphabetically, here is a script that can sort the list.
Copy the code and save to your computer with a name like "sorter.html"
When clicked, a browser window will open.
Paste your jumbled list into the top box, and the tool will alphabetize the list into the bottom box.
<html><head></head><body>
<textarea id="source" style="width:100%; height:200px;"></textarea>
<button onclick="process()">sort</button>
<textarea id="dest" style="width:100%; height:200px;"></textarea>
<script>function process(){
var str=document.getElementById('source').value.split(",");
var sorted=str.sort();
document.getElementById('dest').value=sorted.join(",\n");
}</script>
</body></html>
The list is sorted with trailing commas, in case it is to be pasted back into eBay, although eBay will simply sort it again by registration date (age of the account).
Or, you can copy the list from eBay, save to your desktop as a text file, import into Excel and have Excel sort the list.
