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[Z0001]

Hi

 I have tagged the [Series] field with the series name for movies, eg Rocky, and have a folder under Cover Art called Series in which I have a jpeg called Rocky. But in theatre view instead of seeing the jpeg I expect I still just see a fan of the individual movie cover art. The view is by the [Series] field.

Should this work for movies like it does for TV Shows?

Thanks

[kensn]

I just tried this and it worked for me.

I already had the series field populated for some movies.

I copied a jpg into my series folder and named it after one of my series of my movies.

make a new library item under movies named series and added library item series in it.


Make sure the name of the jpg is the same as the name of the series.

Ken

[MrC]

So long as you have a [Series] category, the artwork will be used.  It is this library field that triggers series artwork.

Your category can use either the library field Series, or you can use the expression TVInfo(SeriesDisplay), which will give you either Series, or if it is empty, Name.

[Z0001]

Brilliant, thanks. I was using a home-made category that was doing the same as the TVInfo expression, but of course MC didn't recognize it as [Series] and so was not displaying the correct art.

All good now!

thanks

[tls62dk]

MrC, I am using the following expression in my Movie Title view (Theater View).

if(isempty([Series]), [Name]Delimit(Watched(2), , / ), Fixcase([Series],3) SERIES)

With the series tag populated, it gives me all movie series grouped and with capital letters. E.g. "ALIEN SERIES"

IT does not provide me with the series artwork as explained above, possibly because the expression TVInfo(SeriesDisplay) isn't used. Is there are way to merge the two so I will get both?

TLS

[MrC]

I don't think so.  I believe Matt indicated that Series artwork only triggers under these easy-to-catch conditions.

[tls62dk]

Thanks anyway. The current set-up I have works pretty well.

[MrC]

Yeah, sorry.  it isn't very clear to my why they check for [Series] can't instead be a comparison of the evaluation of the expression against the value of [Series] instead.  This would allow any expression to then work.  But I have no clue about how this stuff is implemented in MC, so have no authoritative voice here.

[kensn]

check for [Series] can't instead be a comparison of the evaluation of the expression against the value of [Series] instead. 

This would be nice....

[mojave]

I just tagged some movies with Series (Star Trek, Iron Man) and was able to get series art to work. I am using the default Video > Movies > Name view and added TVInfo(SeriesDisplay) as an expression to group by.

When I click a series, the movies in the series will show as expected. However, when I click a movie I go to another screen with just the movie and I have to select it again. How do I eliminate the drill down for movies not in a series?

[mojave]

I created a new view and I get the desired behavior. I wonder why I couldn't modify the existing Name view and have it work properly? Perhaps I needed to reset the view first.