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[lostvibrations]

I have set up a new audio tree view to group by year. At present it groups by each individual year. How can I get it to group by decade (e.g. 1970's, 1980's, etc) and when opening that, to group by year (e.g. 1971, 1972, etc)? Thanks

[gappie]

i use this as an expression: if(isempty([year]),?,mid([year],0,3)0

 
gab

[lostvibrations]

Thanks - I imported that into rules for file display, but when I hit OK it doesn't find any files at all!

[gappie]

im sorry.. guess that that was a bit to quick.
it should not be in the rules.
when you make a view, when using categories or panes, you can add fields you want to see, but also expressions. at the left side of the customize view window. use this expression there.

hope that is clearer, if not i make a screenshot..

 
gab

[lostvibrations]

Thanks gappie, that worked - the tree view now groups the music via decade. However, I want it to then have a sub-group by individual year - like this:

1970
1980
1990
---1991
---1992
---etc

Is this possible? Thanks!

[gappie]

the next step is to add a second item to the categories after the decade. pick year from the fields list.

 
gab

[lostvibrations]

Great! And finally, is it possible to have it show "1980's, 1990's", etc, in the list instead of "1980, 1990"? 

[gappie]

just change the expression: 
if(isempty([year]),?,mid([year],0,3)0
in
if(isempty([year]),?,mid([year],0,3)0's

 
gab

[lostvibrations]

Thanks for all your help gab  

One other thing; after grouping by individual year, I want the tree to show album artist - album, like this:

1980's
1990's
---1991
---1992
---1993
------Bob Dylan - Pink Flies
------Duran Duran - Yellow Smarties
etc

However if I add the expression [album artist] - [album], then the tree just shows (blank) - "date". Any idea what is going on here?

[gappie]

dont know about the date, but i guess album artist is empty, which most of the time is good.. try this instead:
[album artist (auto)] - [album]

 
gab

[lostvibrations]

Thanks a million!! 

[The Mastermind]

I'll throw my thanks in there too. That's a nice improvement in my organisation.

[thurston]

Thanks Gab and lostvibrations!  Very cool!

[Gl3nn]

+1 and thanks from me too!