Add Food > My Foods won't sort by name

IMaintain
IMaintain Posts: 13 Member
edited November 8 in Introduce Yourself
I can't post in the help forum, and I can't find my specific problem addressed, so I'm posting here.

When adding a food to my diary, Add Food > My Foods shows all the foods I created, and the sort order will change depending the selection "Name" or "Default." But "Name" does not list the foods by name, but in some other order that seems random. When "Name" is selected, Add Foods > Recent and Add Foods > Frequent sort correctly by name, but My Foods doesn't.

I use My Foods exclusively because the inability to edit Recent makes that category difficult to use. The category Frequent is also painful to use because deleting something permanently hides it so that it will lead to confusion when you forget to check your list of deletes in the event you can't find something. But now that my My Foods has grown, it's getting as difficult to use as Recent.

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  • LeonCX
    LeonCX Posts: 862 Member
    edited November 2014
    Here's a solution. Find an unused back date in your diary, like October 1st, and enter all your custom My Foods into that date. This will make them appear in your Recent tab. Then you can alphabetically sort them.
  • IMaintain
    IMaintain Posts: 13 Member
    LeonCX wrote: »
    Here's a solution. Find an unused back date in your diary, like October 1st, and enter all your My Foods into that date. Then they will show up in your Recent tab. Then you can alphabetically sort them.
    As I said, I use My Foods exclusively because the inability to edit Recent makes that category difficult to use. Adding even more stuff to it will make it even more difficult. Is this inability to sort My Foods a known site bug?

  • LeonCX
    LeonCX Posts: 862 Member
    edited November 2014
    I gave you a good solution. If you don't like the diary, try Sparkpeople.
  • IMaintain
    IMaintain Posts: 13 Member
    LeonCX wrote: »
    I gave you a good solution. If you don't like the diary, try Sparkpeople.
    Your workaround will make the system even more difficult to use than it currently is. I responded so that people will understand I'm still asking for a solution rather than let the thread end there, misleadingly. Or perhaps someone from the site will be able to state that My Foods can't be sorted by name, and the solution requires waiting for a new feature.

    In any case, I would hope that people can respond constructively, without flaming or snark.
  • Krepta7
    Krepta7 Posts: 3 Member
    I have had this issue for over a year now. I asked for a fix a long time ago and was ignored. I stopped using MFP for 6 months because of this annoyance. I just started using it again to see if the issue had been resolved. I even tried deleting all of my custom meals. Issue still remains. I wouldn't count on this being fixed since it has been over a year. The fact this doesn't work is ridiculous. Sorting a database table field in alphabetical order is pretty basic. Please up channel this complaint. There is no good reason this cannot be fixed.
  • crashchamp
    crashchamp Posts: 147 Member
    Im not sure why this option is not available on the website, but it is available to sort alphabetically a-z, z-a,or most recent in the android app
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