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Title: Theatre View Sorting - Odd Occurence
Post by: jroyale on January 17, 2010, 09:39:51 pm

I have a library item under video that is a disc location.  All the videos show up as they are supposed to in addition there is an unassigned category.  It appears to have all my videos in it.  I have no unassigned (genre) videos.  So maybe I'm missing something but I assume the unassigned is referring to the genre. 

So to clarify I have a libary item set to c:....\my videos.  Then I have 3 folders that show up as they should with a fourth item called unassigned.

1) Why would unassigned show up when I don't have any unassigned videos
2) Why is a genre category showing up in a disc location specified view

I have deleted the view.  Restarted then entered back in and the same thing happens.

Odd no?

Title: Re: Theatre View Sorting - Odd Occurence
Post by: rick.ca on January 17, 2010, 11:17:46 pm

No. ;)

The items that are included in a view are determined by "Rules for file display" and "Use parent scheme rules" (Customize View - Options - Advanced). If you haven't changed those settings, this view probably includes all the same items as the parent Video view. Categories determine how those items are grouped. If you've specified a disk location, then the items are at that location, or they are not. That is, the latter are not assigned to any of the categories you've specified.

Title: Re: Theatre View Sorting - Odd Occurence
Post by: jroyale on January 18, 2010, 11:16:31 am

Hmmm I see.  So the videos that are "unassigned" are not assigned to that disc location?  I'll check that setting out.

Thanks.

Title: Re: Theatre View Sorting - Odd Occurence
Post by: jroyale on March 17, 2010, 09:27:30 pm

Funny enought this is an old post but happened again.  I did go to custom view, advanced and unticked use parent schemer rules for display and it still occurs.

Am I missing something?

Title: Re: Theatre View Sorting - Odd Occurence
Post by: rick.ca on March 18, 2010, 12:00:26 am

"Unassigned" means not included in any of the specified categories. In this case, that means all videos in your library that are not located in c:\...\my videos. If you don't want to see those, include a Rule for file display that excludes them.

Title: Re: Theatre View Sorting - Odd Occurence
Post by: jroyale on March 18, 2010, 09:37:19 pm

I added rule for display that genre = x.  And x in this case are all the movies in that location meaning I have all my home movies in that disk location and they are all tagged "home movie" genre.  Unassigned still shows up though.

As a quick aside, I'm not quite sure of the programming logic here.  I have said I only what to see movies in a certain disk location and then the program adds all movies/  Seems odd to me but who am I?

Title: Re: Theatre View Sorting - Odd Occurence
Post by: rick.ca on March 18, 2010, 11:23:41 pm

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I have said I only what to see movies in a certain disk location...

You "said" you would like to categorize movies by disk location, and then assumed the program would limit the selection according to the specific category chosen. That would not have been logical or desirable.

Title: Re: Theatre View Sorting - Odd Occurence
Post by: jroyale on March 19, 2010, 09:09:02 am

Roger that.  Can you explain why they are still showing up when I have genre = home movies?  That should limit to only home movies no?

Title: Re: Theatre View Sorting - Odd Occurence
Post by: rick.ca on March 19, 2010, 10:41:48 am

If that's your Rule for file display, then yes, you should only see files that match that criteria.