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wburkett

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inheriting views
« on: July 19, 2020, 09:32:38 am »

I'm sure there's an easy answer to this and I'm sure the question has been asked a million times, but my searches for an answer have been fruitless.

I've got my favorite songs organized by year using smartlists.  Folders are two levels deep, e.g., :

    Favorite Songs (folder)
        2010s (folder)
            2019 (smartlist)

The "Favorite Songs" folder has the view I want: selected columns and ordering.  By the time I get down to the smartlist for the year, the view is a completely different sent of columns.  I know how to save and load a view, but it's getting very tedious doing this for each year.  Is there any way to propagate the top-level folder view down through all the children?  Or collectively get all the children to inherit from their parent?

Thx - Bill
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RoderickGI

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Re: inheriting views
« Reply #1 on: July 19, 2020, 08:41:31 pm »

I don't believe so. MC takes the column layout from its internal defaults I think.

I would love to be proved wrong, and be able to set column presets for all sorts of Views.
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wburkett

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Re: inheriting views
« Reply #2 on: July 19, 2020, 10:10:07 pm »

Thx, Rod -- I wish you would be proved wrong, too.  :-)

Something is starting to come back to me.   If the 2010s folder has the view (ie columns and ordering) I want and I create a new playlist or smartlist in that folder, it inherits the parent's view - which is what I want.  I must have created all the playlists when the parent folder views were the default and changed the folder view after-the-fact.
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