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I am sure I have missed something on the wiki....

I wanted to do a smartlist to return all of the movies with:
1. a "G" or "PG" rating; as well as, 2. those with a genre that contains "general" or "family".

I started with the wizard the "G" or "PG" bit was fine because each of these came up with a selectable tick box.

The second bit was harder.  Although you can select the available genres, this is not a good way as movies often come with a genre of "Family;Comedy" or "Action;Family;Comedy" etc.....  and MC is only set up for a genre to be a single type and not a list of applicable genres.  Thus new permutations are constantly added and I would like to return any that contain "Family" or "General".  Using the smartlist wizard, there doesn't appear to be a way of using an "OR" within search field.

There also doesn't appear to be an option to make a criteria an "OR" comparator, i.e. multiple criteria are always joined by an "AND".  In my example above I want the criteria to return matches to criteria 1 OR criteria 2.

Couldn't see anything on the wiki on how to manually edit the string either.

Pointers??

Thanks

Craig


PS: Is there a work around for the genre field to mean something more meaningful for movies.  Almost all movies fit into a few genres and smarter behaviour in MC would be great.  Can I change the genre field to a list type that can accept multiple entries.

[gappie]

it is possible to use 'or' in smartlists. this thread might be of some help: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=54971.0

 
gab

[rick.ca]

PS: Is there a work around for the genre field to mean something more meaningful for movies.  Almost all movies fit into a few genres and smarter behaviour in MC would be great.  Can I change the genre field to a list type that can accept multiple entries.

You're right—movie genres should be saved in a list field. You can't change the type of the standard field, but you can create a custom list field for them.