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Klaus_K:

--- Quote from: Jaguu on November 03, 2011, 12:01:49 pm ---I think, but I am not sure, that only fields of type "list" can be nested. Just enter the tag information like this: AAA\BBB\CCC\DDD\EEE. You can nest as many levels you want, so you could have:

Voice\Soprano\Maria Callas\Role1
Voice\Soprano\Maria Callas\Role2
Voice\Soprano\Maria Callas\Role3

If you customized your view with panes you will get a tree list of the nested tags. So if you select Role3 you will get all the operas where Maria Callas performed Role3. As I have only a few opera in my libraries, I do not specifiy the role of a singer in an opera.


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Thanks for the advice. I played around a little bit yesterday night and it works as you described. However, it seems that the only way to get there is by manually updating every soloist with a string that includes the backslash, right? I hoped to find a possibility to do this via pane tagging, but that seems not to be possible.
I have two list type fields (Soloist and Role) - my problem is how to manage to assign a Role to a single soloist via pane tagging, when the album has other soloists? Maybe I need to set-up my view differently, but when I tried I always assigned the role to all other soloists when trying to use pane tagging... I know it's difficult to describe with words - I try to catch a screenshot.

Thanks anyway
Klaus

vagskal:
The best way to nest is usually to use an expression for inserting the backslash between different fields. Make an expression pane with this simple example just to see how it works:

--- Code: ---[Album Artist (auto)]\[Year] - [Album]&datatype=[list]
--- End code ---

In your case where one track can have several soloists with different roles I think the only practical way is to have just one list type field with the backslashes in it (Maria Callas\Role1; Some Other Soloist\Role2) and that will unfortunately prevent you from doing pane tagging (since the pane will be nested). MC is not a relational database.

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