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MSFS20 Airport starts dropdown order control?

RomanDesign

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In the main MSFS flight selection screen all starts in my airport are garbled: when you click on the dropdown to select where you spawn, it looks something like this:

Gate 5
Gate 18
Gate 4
Gate 14
Gate 15
NE Parking 3
NE Parking 1

...and so on. Completely random order. I named all the stands with "display name" in the editor in a logical order (Gate 21, Gate 22, Gate 23 etc.), but while it sorted the gates in the editor list, that didn't change anything in the sim itself. "Index" parameter is not editable. Don't know what else to try.

- What controls the order of the gates and ramps in the menu dropdown? How can I sort it out correctly?
 
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It also happens to me... I think it´s the order we´ve used to create them.
Unfortunately I don´t have a clue about what can be done to change the order.
 
What's funny is that I used the Asobo files as a starting point, so many of those are the original ones (with changed naming), and they don't seem to be in any particular order from the beginning, like not one after another by distance, name, function or number.
 
614NLV said:
maybe it follows the .xml order
check your xml file ;)
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That's going to be difficult to put it mildly, with possibly thousands of entries by now. Just filtering them out and rearranging may be a huge task... There should be a better way.
 
I don't think you have any other options
edit the xml file
or redo the parking spots in dev-mode, following the right order ;)
 
614NLV said:
I don't think you have any other options
edit the xml file
or redo the parking spots in dev-mode, following the right order ;)
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Ouch... Well, if that's what I have to do... It's kind of weird on MSFS side not to allow any means to order the starts, seems kind of a basic thing...
 
I agree but.... it's just one of the many things that Asobo has to fix
and we hope they do soon :)

EDIT:
I'll have to do it for my airport too :D
but at the moment it is not a priority
 
Bad news. Rearranging them in the XML file has no effect on how they appear in the dropdown. I tried changing the Index field to sort them. They stay in the order you created them. So I assume the only fix is to delete them all and rebuild from scratch. That's a whole bunch of NOPE for me. They will stay out of order.😂
 
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haskell99 said:
Bad news. Rearranging them in the XML file has no effect on how they appear in the dropdown. I tried changing the Index field to sort them. They stay in the order you created them. So I assume the only fix is to delete them all and rebuild from scratch. That's a whole bunch of NOPE for me. They will stay out of order.😂
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Ouch, and I just rearranged my XML... Maybe that's their indexes or GUIDs?
 
in scenery editor
duplicate your parkings
delete the old ones
connect them to the taxiway
do it in the right order
and this will generate a correct xml file with the right order in the sim ;)
 
614NLV said:
in scenery editor
duplicate your parkings
delete the old ones
connect them to the taxiway
do it in the right order
and this will generate a correct xml file with the right order in the sim ;)
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Does this duplicate the Jetways as well? That would be a pain to do all them again.
 
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