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Dennis in FL:

--- Quote from: wer on October 09, 2020, 11:44:15 am ---You guessed wrong; my screenshot showed what I did,

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To be clear...what I am puzzling over is the "Compositions" after Beethoven (see my attached screenshot test.jpg and arrow)

wer:
Yes, I know.  And if you had tried building a view exactly as I had shown in my screenshot, you would have seen that MC names the tab that way naturally.

Again, look at my Customize View screenshot.  It shows a top level category of Artist, and the second level as Composition.
Both of these are simply library fields. Artist is a default field, and Composition is a custom field, defined as I told you.

And when you create a view with these two categories and open it, you would first see a bunch of Artists. And then if you drilled down into Beethoven, you would see the tab name changes to Beethoven Compositions.  That is the way MC is written; it builds the tab name based on the levels of categories you drill down into. Those words are even active links, you can click on them to change levels.  Don't ask how the tab name change happens: Observe that it does happen. MC does this on every tab you have, for every view.

There is no secret expression here.  If you're not getting the results as shown in my screenshot, you're not building the view as shown in my screenshot.

You keep saying in this thread "I don't understand how you got so-and-so", but you don't show your own divergent results.  If you actually get different results, then show your work with screenshots from your own computer showing how the view is configured on your system, so I can explain where you went wrong.  If you don't have any divergent results to show because you didn't try what I gave you, then try it.

Dennis in FL:
I have Beethoven in Composer, and Artist is the conductor, orchestra, and if there is another artist (pianist, etc).   

So I don't have artist in use....I have composer, composition, and then album artist

wer:
You can see from the screenshot what I have in the Artist field, and the fields I am using to create the view, so it should be obvious why the tab is named what it is based on the content you see in the screenshot. There is no secret.

Structure the view however you want; use Composer as the top level if you prefer.  The way the tab name is built is the same.  Learn by experimenting.

Good luck...

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