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Title: MC 11 problem with saving custom view
Post by: BlueGlow on April 24, 2005, 12:14:19 pm

I have a playlist group called "iPod Playlists" with many child playlists.

I customize the "iPod Playlists" view with a new custom column and apply it.
Then I select "Save this view for this location and sub-locations".
The view is saved for "iPod Playlists" but it is not applied to the child playlists.

I haven't used this feature before so I don't know how it should behave.

Should the parent playlist group view be applied to all child playlists when I select this command? Is this a bug?

Thanks.

Title: Re: MC 11 problem with saving custom view
Post by: Matt on April 24, 2005, 09:16:26 pm

It may be a bug -- we'll take a look.

Title: Re: MC 11 problem with saving custom view
Post by: BlueGlow on April 24, 2005, 11:27:11 pm

Thanks, Matt.

Title: Re: MC 11 problem with saving custom view
Post by: BlueGlow on May 04, 2005, 12:20:09 am

This is still a problem in .255.

Title: Re: MC 11 problem with saving custom view
Post by: Matt on May 04, 2005, 08:46:01 am

"Sub-locations" is misleading in playlists.

Currently, view info for playlists is stored like this:

Playlist Type (playlist, group, etc.)
   Playlist ID

So, a playlist won't look at parent playlists to get view information.  "Sub-locations" really means other playlists of the same type.

It was done this way so that moving playlists around wouldn't cause unexpected results, but perhaps we should revisit this in the next version.

Thanks BlueGlow.

Title: Re: MC 11 problem with saving custom view
Post by: BlueGlow on May 04, 2005, 11:05:41 am

Quote from: Matt on May 04, 2005, 08:46:01 am

"Sub-locations" is misleading in playlists.

Currently, view info for playlists is stored like this:

Playlist Type (playlist, group, etc.)
   Playlist ID

So, a playlist won't look at parent playlists to get view information.  "Sub-locations" really means other playlists of the same type.

It was done this way so that moving playlists around wouldn't cause unexpected results, but perhaps we should revisit this in the next version.

Thanks, Matt.

I still don't quite understand what "save this view for this location and sub-locations" will do. Could you give me an example?

Title: Re: MC 11 problem with saving custom view
Post by: BlueGlow on May 04, 2005, 07:07:43 pm

Can anyone provide an example of a sub-location?

Title: Re: MC 11 problem with saving custom view
Post by: dNj on May 16, 2005, 02:19:23 pm

Should the parent playlist group view be applied to all child playlists when I select this command? Is this a bug?

Thanks.

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Quote from: Matt on April 24, 2005, 09:16:26 pm

It may be a bug -- we'll take a look.

I need help with the above problem too.  I have a playlist group that currently has 106 individual playlists within and this playlist group will continue to grow. I use this playlist group for dj'ing.  I just installed v. 11 and all my custom views were gone.  I tried collapsing the playlist group, customizing the view, and then saving/applying to all child locations...no luck.

Am i forced to recreate the same view for all 106 playlists individually?

Thanks

Title: Re: MC 11 problem with saving custom view
Post by: Matt on May 16, 2005, 02:58:01 pm

dNj, please see my reply above.  We agree that this should be revisited next version.