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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 21 for Windows => Topic started by: Denti on December 29, 2015, 01:16:05 pm

Title: Category [Name] field for Theater View -- can we get one?
Post by: Denti on December 29, 2015, 01:16:05 pm

The field [Name] functions differently in the thumbnail display expression of Standard View / Categories, where it outputs not the field [Name], but the category generated by the category expression (not sure how else to describe this).

Anyway, it's a cool thing to have, and I really really wish it were available in Theater View.

Why? Because it would allow me to solve my now years-long attempt to sort and group my music by artists' last names, but to display them by first name, while still making use of the ; delimiter.  [Name] in the thumbnail display of Standard View plus the expression Unswap() is the only way I've been able to successfully do this.

Title: Re: Category [Name] field for Theater View -- can we get one?
Post by: Denti on January 03, 2016, 11:06:38 am

No interest?

Title: Re: Category [Name] field for Theater View -- can we get one?
Post by: glynor on January 03, 2016, 11:12:07 am

I'm interested in this, for the reasons we discussed in your previous thread. I think the behavior of this "special field" should be normalized and made available generally, and not just limited to Categories-style Standard Views.

As discussed in the previous old thread (I'm too lazy to look up but the one with the reversed artist lists that brought all this up), I do think it would need to be "renamed" to [Category] (or something like that).

But, generally, +1 from me.