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[baniels]

This may have been discussed before, but the nature of the task makes for a difficult search.

In theater view, I use the keyboard to jump to movies by typing in the first few letters. Since many movie titles start with "The", I can't jump any closer to these than the first movie beginning with "The". Then I scroll from there. High class problem, I know.

Whether it is by renaming the titles or some other means, how would I go about getting my movies to appear (minimally in theater view) as "Movie Title, The"?

Thanks

[MrC]

You can do this, but you'll may lose the ability to display series or season artwork.

The movie (or series name) is generated in Tools > Options > Theater View and under Items to Show, there is Video > Movies > Name.   If you select that, you'll see Name on the right.  Click Edit, and you'll find the expression being used is:

   TVInfo(SeriesDisplay)

This generates the movie name or if series is set, the series name.

You can replace this name to remove the article The (and possible others) by using:

   If(Regex(TVInfo(SeriesDisplay), /#^(The) (.*)$#/), [R2]/, [R1], TVInfo(SeriesDisplay))

But just the use of an expression here instead of TVInfo(SeriesDisplay) will lose the ability to display series artwork (since this artwork lookup only works when either [Series] as a library field or TVInfo(SeriesDisplay) as the expression is used).

[mojave]

What happens if you ignore articles in Tools > Options > Tree and View > Sorting?

[MrC]

That works of course, too!

[fitbrit]

What happens if you ignore articles in Tools > Options > Tree and View > Sorting?

That's what I do.

[baniels]

Beautiful! That did it.

What happens if you ignore articles in Tools > Options > Tree and View > Sorting?