CompanyHistory

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The join/group by is incorrect, which is why the dates are wrong.

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This could be solved if I could join "PS3" onto "PlayStation 3". I don't know how to do that without making another table (to replicate template:Code2Format). Is there another way?

-Black Squirrel (talk) 11:39, 5 January 2020 (EST)

So the problem is that "companies" uses the full console names and "releases" uses codes? I don't really understand the cargo syntax you've used here, so all I can suggest is creating an additional template that fetches the date, instead of trying to get the date in CompanyHistory. The template would be called from Template:CompanyHistory/Cargo and would need to contain a reverse Template:Code2Format. - Hivebrain (talk) 15:02, 5 January 2020 (EST)

Alright no worries - I thought there might have been a shortcut.

I've cheated and made Special:CargoTables/codeformat, which means we can join the tables in a better way. I think the results are correct now - missing games are hopefully the fault of individual pages. -Black Squirrel (talk) 16:07, 5 January 2020 (EST)

Note to self

template isn't pulling out games that have ampersands or single quotes in their names. SQL thing maybe. Will check at some point -Black Squirrel (talk) 16:26, 8 January 2020 (EST)