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More => Old Versions => Media Center 12 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: zirum on July 06, 2008, 04:13:48 am
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I have read thru http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=44021.0 (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=44021.0) article regarding multi artist approaches, but have some problems with the way I would like it to work.
Currently, I use:
[artist] for the "someone feat. another one"
[Artist] for the "someone;another one"
[Featured Artist] for the following expression: If(IsEmpty([Artists]),[Artist],[Artists])&DataType=[List]
What I would like, is a pane "Featured Artist" which have a list of
Someone
Another One
if [Artists] is blank, I would like the value of [Artist] to appear. And when i select anyone of these, i would like the record to appear.
But this is what happens instead:
When i press any one of these in the pane, the result is blank.
If i press both, it is also blank.
When I select "all (x)", the record appear.
Am i missing something?
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Open up the pane properties and check the "Matching" options.
If it's set to "match all" change it to "match any"
Does that help?
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Nice thinking, Marko. But unfortunately, that was grayed out...
Seems like all calculated fields is that. Might there be particular reason for that?
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Was shooting from the hip there.
I'll have a closer look after Hamilton's won at Silverstone....
:D
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Appreciate it, Marko :D
I'll go and root for Hushovd in Tour de France, meanwhile :)
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Hamilton was in a class of his own this afternoon, regardless of mistakes by Ferrari.
How's Hushovd getting on?
I don't get so complex with [Artist], but I do have a list type field called [Genres] to complement the default, standard [Genre] field.
I created an expression based pane:
if(isempty([genres]),[genre],[genres])&datatype=[list]
All [Genre] and [Genres] are listed in the pane and the file list correctly reflects the pane selections.
So, if I've understood you correctly, it appears to be working OK at this end?
-marko.
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Actually, Hushovd won as well! :D
http://www.letour.fr/ (http://www.letour.fr/)
Yes, I guess if you look at a song you know have multiple [Genres] for, and still can see that when you select one of them in the pane, the you have been able to achieve it the way I would like to have it. If so, that's odd.
What settings might be different on my computer...?
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Did you try creating an expression based pane rather than using the expression based library field?
This is the approach that worked for me.
I just created a library field using the same [genres] expression, and if I add that field as a pane, it does not work!!!
-marko.
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That explains why I was sure it had worked once. I probably had created it as an expression to test it first. I use the field several views, so it is a bit more cumbersome (i need to create a first-letter-index pane on it as well...), but at least then it works.
Thanks a lot for the help, Marko. I suppose it is not a desired behavior, so i'll post it into the build thread as proposed bug.
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A new "problem" occurred to me. Well, I guess it is more of a limitation in MC due to the way it works. When i created a "Artists" pane for first letter, and select for instance "A" for Another One", I will also get a item in the full "Artists" pane with the item "Someone", since "Someone" also is represented as a hit.
Might there be a way to avoid that? I would rather only have the Artists with matching first letter represented in Pane 2...
My to expressions look like this:
Artists (First letter): Mid(If(IsEmpty([Artists]),[Artist],[Artists])&DataType=[List],0,1)Artists: If(IsEmpty([Artists]),[Artist],[Artists])&DataType=[List]