INTERACT FORUM
Windows => Television => Topic started by: CountryBumkin on November 23, 2015, 01:19:52 pm
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It would be nice to be able to add a "new" recording subscription from within Standard View >Television >Recording Rules.
I know I can take an existing subscription and change/edit the "Rule Name", and the "Search by rules" (i.e. Name or Series Name) to create a different/new subscription, but then I lose an existing subscription.
* Would it be possible to add a button on the Television >Recording Rules page to "Add a New Rule"?
* Also, can you add a few more fields to the search rules, like "Year", "Date" and "Season"? And if so, then we need the "=", "<" and ">" parameters.
This way I could set up my subscription to only record TV Series that is "less than some Year" (for example, I may want to record the series "Two and Half Men" but I don't want the shows after Charlie Sheen left so I would do something like only record shows where the "Year < 2011 (or "Season <= 9"). Another example would be record the new (2015) series "The Odd Couple" but not the original series from 1970.
Thanks for considering.
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+1 ;D
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YES :D
That would also work very nicely for series such as Battlestar Galactica that had an "old" 1970 series & a "new" 2000 series.
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I could see that the "Add a New Rule" feature would be a convenience, but there is a quick and easy method to do what you want now without losing an existing subscription.
Just go to Standard View>Television>All Programs, pick any program in the future, and then record button becomes available, click it, and set up any recording subscription you want.
The only problem with that is that the subscription retains the original program name, which is annoying, and is why I have asked for that field to be editable as well, in addition to having the subscription Rule Name editable. The Rule Name is the field used for sorting and display in the Recording Rules list, but it would be nice to create a rule with the correct Program Name, and a configurable, meaningful Rule Name. I would use this to set up rules for programs that aren't in the current EPG, but I expect to appear in the future, and I want to capture without having to remember to create a rule when they are first scheduled. Thus, I could avoid missing the first episodes if I didn't see that the program had started to be broadcast.
I have also asked for additional fields to be available for rules, so I add my voice to that request.
Of course, all of this relies on quality EPG data, so we will need to take into account the possibility of missing data when setting up rules. 8)
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I could see that the "Add a New Rule" feature would be a convenience, but there is a quick and easy method to do what you want now without losing an existing subscription.
Just go to Standard View>Television>All Programs, pick any program in the future, and then record button becomes available, click it, and set up any recording subscription you want.
The only problem with that is that the subscription retains the original program name, which is annoying, and is why I have asked for that field to be editable as well, in addition to having the subscription Rule Name editable. Of course, all of this relies on quality EPG data, so we will need to take into account the possibility of missing data when setting up rules. 8)
Good idea.
BTW - I was able to edit the "Subscription Rule Name" when I modified an exiting subscription to something new, so either this capability has been added since you last tried, or I am misunderstanding what you are saying.
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Yeah I can edit the "Subscription Rule Name", but I cant edit the original Program Name used to create the rule.
See image.
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Actually, I can edit the original Program Name, by first creating a time based recording, where I can edit the Program Name, and then changing that recording rule to a subscription, which then allows me to also edit the "Subscription Rule Name". I just confirmed this again.
I just can't edit the original Program Name if I create a Subscription Rule in one step.
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Agreed on all of the above. These changes would make the recently improved recording rule functionality even better.