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Author Topic: User Defined Fields and Smart Lists  (Read 2067 times)

wburkett

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User Defined Fields and Smart Lists
« on: December 27, 2015, 12:24:53 pm »
I am still new to MC and I just tried to create a smartlist that made use of a user-defined field that I created with the library manager.  To my astonishment and disappointment, I can't find any of the user-defined fields in the list of fields from which I can create rules!!  Two questions:

(1) Why aren't they there?? (This would be a very powerful user tool!)
(2) What can I do to use these fields in a smartplaylist rule?  (E.g., is there a way to work the "custom" rule to find a user-defined field that is blank?)

wow - I'm still surprised by this discovery.

Bill
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JimH

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Re: User Defined Fields and Smart Lists
« Reply #1 on: December 27, 2015, 01:05:22 pm »
Make sure the names match exactly, including case
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Re: User Defined Fields and Smart Lists
« Reply #2 on: December 27, 2015, 01:40:35 pm »
The answer is, user defined fields ARE usable in SmartLists, Views, etc.  I'm not sure why you don't see yours, but they should be available.

If you don't see them after verifying spelling and case, please post a screen shot so we can see what you are doing.

Brian.
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Re: User Defined Fields and Smart Lists
« Reply #3 on: December 27, 2015, 01:46:48 pm »
Did you limit the fields usage using the Audio, Image, Video etc. flags when you set it up?
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wburkett

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Re: User Defined Fields and Smart Lists
« Reply #4 on: December 27, 2015, 05:28:31 pm »
Ah ha.

I'd closed and relaunch MC a couple times and did not see the user-defined fields in the smart playlist fields.  TTTHHHEEENNNN it dawned on my that the MC server was running, so I shut that down, too - and voila! - the user-defined fields showed up!

Sorry to trouble y'all - thanks for the feedback.

Bill
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