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[arcspin]

Hi,
I have a question on how to best approach this situation.
I have two different movies that happens to have the same name.

For example the movies:
The Running man from 1963 and the Running man from 1987.
If I not do anything these two movies will be stacked in Theater view but if I tag one of the movies with a space after the name then they are separated in Theater view,

Is there another (proper) way of separating two movies with the same name in theater view?



Best regards,

//Peter

[tij]

You can unstack movies ... right click on stack, there should be option to unstack them

Obviously you can also create custom stacks ... select multiple movies ... right click ... and there should be stack option

There is an option somewhere in auto import that disabled automatic stacking

[wer]

What I do is name them "The Running Man (1963)" and "The Running Man (1987)"

[arcspin]

Hi,
I do not want to stack both movies, i want to separate them in Theater view.
There is no option, in Theater view, to unstack movies.
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I have a an expression so that the year and keyword is added automatically in Theater view, therefor adding the year manually is not an option.
In attached picture you can see that the titel is shown in white, the year in light grey and the keyword in red.

[wer]

You need to make a choice: name the movies differently, or write a more intelligent expression.

You can always just append a space character to the [Name] field of one of the movies.  It's a stupid trick, but if the strings don't match, MC won't stack them.

[tij]

Remove stacking from Standard View and it will not be present in Theatre View (right click on stack in Standard View and choose "unstack")

I have hips of movies with same name (mainly 2D and 3D version of movies) … all of them are unstack in Standard View and they show unstack in Theatre View too

[arcspin]

Hi and thanx for the tip but...
The two movies are not stacked in Standard view and can therefor not be unstacked.

I attach two screen shoots one from Standard view and one from Theater View to better show what I mean.
It is difficult to see in the Theater View attachment but the two movies are stacked together and when I click on the Running man I'm presented with a sub view like in the attachment "TV Sub view"


This can perhaps be related to the fact that I have made some Expressions in Theater View and therefor are presented with this problem.

If tij says that there is no problem presenting different movies with exactly the same name in Theater View, the problem might as well be on my side because of the use of Expressions.

[Hendrik]

Stacking in Theater View only happens when you tell it to, so you must have configured your movies view to stack movies with an identical name - so as another option you could also stop doing that, or change that stacking logic to a smart expression that lets you exclude movies with different years, or whatever.

[arcspin]

You need to make a choice: name the movies differently, or write a more intelligent expression.

You can always just append a space character to the [Name] field of one of the movies.  It's a stupid trick, but if the strings don't match, MC won't stack them.

Yep, this is what I do, append a space character. It works.




Thx,

//Peter

[arcspin]

Stacking in Theater View only happens when you tell it to, so you must have configured your movies view to stack movies with an identical name - so as another option you could also stop doing that, or change that stacking logic to a smart expression that lets you exclude movies with different years, or whatever.

Great, I will look into that.

This is how I group by;

Code: [Select]

If(IsEmpty([Series]),[Name],[Series])
This is how I Display the Expression:

Code: [Select]

if(isempty([Series, 1]), <font color="FFFFFF" "size="80"><b>[Name, 1]<//font><//b><font color="C0C0C0" "size="80"> [Year, 1]<//font> <font color="FF3333" "size="80">[Keywords, 1]<//font>, <b><font color="ff3333" "size="100"> Fixcase([Series, 1],3))<//b><//font>

[lepa]

I think that you need to group with [Name] + [Date (Year)]

I have done it for example like this: If(!IsEmpty([Series]),Fixcase([Series],3),[Name] /([Date (Year)]/))

So following your current case it would be something like this: If(IsEmpty([Series]),[Name] [Date (Year)],[Series])

[Hendrik]

The suggestion from lepa makes sense to me. That way movies with the same name but a different year will show up seperately.

[arcspin]

So following your current case it would be something like this: If(IsEmpty([Series]),[Name] [Date (Year)],[Series])

Sorry for the late reply,

This works out perfectly.

Thank You som much!

[lepa]

Glad it worked out and thanks for reporting back 

[wer]

Arcspin, you'll make it easier on everyone if next time you disclose at the start that you're using a grouping expression (and what it is), instead of not showing it until halfway through...

[arcspin]

Hi,
You are correct, my mistake.
Point taken.

Have a great weekend,

//Arcspin