INTERACT FORUM
More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: ZRocker on February 03, 2003, 10:00:17 am
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Did you by chance rename the display name for Column heading "Track #" to something else (in Options > Tree & View settings)?
If so, that's the problem...or bug...you have to use the new name in [...] for the templates to work. This is something I noticed a while back (argh)...maybe someday Matt will realize that simply using the fixed/unchangeable 'Name' field (instead the 'Display' field) in template matching makes much more sense.
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I'm taking damage.
However, if you rename "Custom 1" to "Composer", wouldn't you expect to type [Composer], not [Custom 1]?
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I thought the reason for [Artist]=[] was so you wouldn't run into this problem as [Artist] would always be Artist.
I know you're talking about the rename feature but then again, it took me a long time to figure that out too. I think something needs to be done in this area just like you did with the wizard in the search bar.
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Matt - I expect to put whatever is in the 'Name' field...not what is in the 'Display' field ('Name' seems to be internal). If I want to rename each, then I can do that...but, I don't use custom fields anyways so I can't change the 'Name' field (it's constant for me).
I would also expect the 'canned' templates that MC supports (presents the user) to ALWAYS work...since MC can't save custom templates the user defines (and show those in the drop-down history listbox).
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I agree that MJ's templates should ALWAYS work.
I did in fact change Track # to just # as the actual info displayed in this field is small where as 'track #' is way wider than the info to be displayed so # makes more sense as they match size wise.
I again though just presumed that it was to do with the internal field value name rather than the display name that MJ used.
Also - I know your working on a LOT of things, but the ability to add or remove our own name format's really could do with being included into a build sometime soon.
A graphical way of doing this as well with a list of all the fields we are aloud to choose from would again eliminate all errors like this as well as making life sooo much simpler for beginners - maybe with an 'advanced' option that allows the user to enter it manually like it's done now.