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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: ThatAdamGuy on October 27, 2005, 02:17:57 am

Title: How to create new combo list field?
Post by: ThatAdamGuy on October 27, 2005, 02:17:57 am

I'd like to create a new field "Labels" that's a list-type concatenation of "Genre" + "Keywords" so I can then create a view on the left that categorizes all my music by non-duplicative labels :)

However, I haven't been able to figure out how to do this.  When I create a new Labels field with the calculated value:

[Genre];[Keywords]

...it looks fine, until I then create a new list view, and then I get a list like:

Dance;a cappella;Spanish
Dance;a cappella;
Dance;French

Instead of what I'd like to see, which is:

A cappella
Dance
French
Spanish

Any ideas?  Thanks!

Title: Re: How to create new combo list field?
Post by: darichman on October 27, 2005, 06:12:07 am

Only a workaround, but:

Make your calculated field: "[Genre];[Keywords]"
Create a second field and set it to list.
Periodically select all your files, choose Move/Copy Fields and copy the contents of field A to field B.

That's the only way I've been able to combine multiple fields and still have it display properly as a list. It requires maintenance, but will do what you want it to do. It would be great if we had the option to set fields as both Calculated AND Semicolon delimited lists ;)

Title: Re: How to create new combo list field?
Post by: ThatAdamGuy on October 27, 2005, 06:17:34 am

Aw, bummer that it's not possible to do without a workaround... but thank you for the thoughtful idea!