Topic: New library view (Read 3147 times)

rossp · « **on:** April 27, 2012, 08:53:08 am »

Hi all, Can someone help me with a library view that will list movies by date imported and grouped by month.

Ross

MrC · « **Reply #1 on:** April 27, 2012, 10:50:35 am »

Which type of view? Panes, Categories?

rossp · « **Reply #2 on:** April 27, 2012, 10:51:48 am »

Panes

MrC · « **Reply #3 on:** April 27, 2012, 11:18:05 am »

Something like this (see attached)?

I haven't addressed the file list grouping, sorting; I'm not entirely clear how you want the view.

[edit: screenshot updated w/correct expression.]

rossp · « **Reply #4 on:** April 27, 2012, 11:24:02 am »

Interesting Mr C, The only months that show up in my view are Dec and Jan. But I imported movies this month?

Ross

MrC · « **Reply #5 on:** April 27, 2012, 11:29:33 am »

A morning, single-cup of coffee, MrC error.

FormatDate([Date Imported,0], MMMM)

rossp · « **Reply #6 on:** April 27, 2012, 11:33:36 am »

Brilliant, Can we change the first pane to be year imported.

MrC · « **Reply #7 on:** April 27, 2012, 11:37:04 am »

Sure, you can do that. See the FormatDate() expression. It shows the formatting templates that you can use from any date field. Just replace the Date Imported library field in the view's first column with an expression field instead (like Month).

Once you like this, if you're interested, you can get the years/months to nest in a single pane.

rossp · « **Reply #8 on:** April 27, 2012, 11:37:28 am »

Got it Mr C

FormatDate([Date Imported,0], Year)

rossp · « **Reply #9 on:** April 27, 2012, 11:39:19 am »

Mr C you are a star thanks.

MrC · « **Reply #10 on:** April 27, 2012, 11:42:08 am »

Thanks. And now back to my coffee and peach greek yogurt.

rossp · « **Reply #11 on:** April 27, 2012, 11:48:12 am »

One last thing - in the Month pane the months are listed alphabetically. Can we list them in month order?

April
February
January
March

should be

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr

Ross

MrC · « **Reply #12 on:** April 27, 2012, 11:51:58 am »

FormatDate([Date Imported,0], MMMM)&datatype=[month]

See also: Specify data types for expression based fields.

rossp · « **Reply #13 on:** April 27, 2012, 11:54:25 am »

Holy sh*$ Mr C. I knew you were good but this is ridiculous........

MrC · « **Reply #14 on:** April 27, 2012, 12:04:22 pm »

It's the Chobani.

rossp · « **Reply #15 on:** April 27, 2012, 12:05:55 pm »

Enjoy you have earned your Chobani

rossp · « **Reply #16 on:** April 30, 2012, 09:27:01 am »

OK you've got me interested now. How do you can get the years/months to nest in a single pane.

Ross

MrC · « **Reply #17 on:** April 30, 2012, 11:31:17 am »

Add this as the expression for a pane column:

   FormatDate([Date Imported,0], Year)\/
   FormatDate([Date Imported,0], Month)/
   &datatype=[list]

The backslash is the list hierarchy separator for levels in a pane column (e.g. B will be indented when A\B is presented). It is enabled by forcing the datatype to list: &datatype=[list]. Unfortunately, only one datatype can be specified, so you'll lose the alphabetical month sorting. You could use numeric sorting.

Edit: You can set the field's Sort order to be Date Imported. This should sort nicely.

rossp · « **Reply #18 on:** April 30, 2012, 12:50:02 pm »

Nice

MrC · « **Reply #19 on:** April 30, 2012, 01:00:55 pm »

See edit above.

SkGe · « **Reply #20 on:** April 30, 2012, 02:32:20 pm »

How can you do to show?
Genre>Styles
Where styles field is a (semicolon delimited) where is only take the first line and the rest no.
[Genre,0]\/
[Styles]/
&datatype=[ list ] (edit don't let me write the correct line

)

MrC · « **Reply #21 on:** April 30, 2012, 03:47:32 pm »

You have to perform a little magic to turn this:

[Genre] G
[Style] S1; S2; S3

into:

G\S1; G\S2; G\S3

You use Replace() to replace the semicolon with the entire [Genre] string with a preceding semicolon:

Replace(;/ [Style], ;/ , ;[Genre]\)&datatype=[list]

By appending a semicolon-space to the beginning of Style, we're working on:

; S1; S2; S3

and by replacing the semicolon/space with ;[Genre]\, we get:

;[Genre]\S1;[Genre]\S2;[Genre]\S3

And when interpreted as a list, this is exactly the list:

[Genre]\S1
[Genre]\S2
[Genre]\S3

btw. use [nobbc] [/nobbc] BBCodes around the [list] portion of your code to have it appear correctly here on the forum.

SkGe · « **Reply #22 on:** April 30, 2012, 05:38:57 pm »

You have my bow mate

Ty for the code
And i have another if you can help there
Want to set a decades (grouped) let say 2000-2009>year, but so far i just fail reproducing the right code. So i sticked with [year] and grouped on 10. But if i want that i can't integrate year as you do there.
Can be possible?
I have a field called [decade] ListCombine([1950s], [1960s], [1970s], [1980s], [1990s], [2000s], [2010s], ), but it doesn't help me at all.

MrC · « **Reply #23 on:** April 30, 2012, 06:34:58 pm »

if(
   isempty([year]),
   Unassigned,
   FormatDate([Date, 0], Decade)\[Year]
)&DataType=[list]

MM_switcher · « **Reply #24 on:** May 01, 2012, 02:53:32 pm »

Quote from: MrC on April 30, 2012, 06:34:58 pm

if(
   isempty([year]),
   Unassigned,
   FormatDate([Date, 0], Decade)\[Year]
)&DataType=[list]

Copy/pasted that, but I only get this:

MrC · « **Reply #25 on:** May 01, 2012, 03:01:59 pm »

Works here.

Try adding a sequence of expression columns to test. Add these values, one per column:

  [year]
  isempty([year])
  [Date, 0]
  FormatDate([Date, 0], Decade)

Also, look at the values you see under the U-Z section.

vagskal · « **Reply #26 on:** May 01, 2012, 03:02:34 pm »

Quote from: MM_switcher on May 01, 2012, 02:53:32 pm

Copy/pasted that, but I only get this:

It looks like you have grouping activated. Try to deselect grouping in Customize view.

MrC · « **Reply #27 on:** May 01, 2012, 03:05:20 pm »

Ah, that's it.

Grouping should be disabled by default once an expression is entered. This is a nasty hidden gotcha. I think I now recall you've helped someone else with this problem recently.

MM_switcher · « **Reply #28 on:** May 01, 2012, 03:14:22 pm »

Yes, the grouping was activated, but I never did this. Good to know, what the default is.
Thanks for prompt response, I like the speed here

Matt · « **Reply #29 on:** May 01, 2012, 04:20:37 pm »

Nice detective work figuring this out.

Next build:
Fixed: It was possible to set a category as 'Grouped', then switch it to an expression (which doesn't support grouping), and then have a broken pane or view.

vagskal · « **Reply #30 on:** May 01, 2012, 04:37:59 pm »

Quote from: Matt on May 01, 2012, 04:20:37 pm

Next build:
Fixed: It was possible to set a category as 'Grouped', then switch it to an expression (which doesn't support grouping), and then have a broken pane or view.

Are you sure about this? I kind of liked the workaround to get grouping in an expression category/pane. (I do not think the pane/view is "broken" when you intentionally use grouping.) Would it be possible to instead enable grouping for expression categories/views?

rpalmer68 · « **Reply #31 on:** May 01, 2012, 05:08:44 pm »

Quote from: vagskal on May 01, 2012, 04:37:59 pm

Are you sure about this? I kind of liked the workaround to get grouping in an expression category/pane. (I do not think the pane/view is "broken" when you intentionally use grouping.) Would it be possible to instead enable grouping for expression categories/views?

I tried to group an expression in one of my theater view views the other day and found I couldn't, so I'd support this request.

R.

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