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More => Old Versions => Media Center 16 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: raldo on July 05, 2011, 01:52:28 pm

Title: Theaterview secondary roller, please explain! [solved]
Post by: raldo on July 05, 2011, 01:52:28 pm
There really isn't a secondary roller in the subviews of theater view anymore, is there?

I find the mc15 version more functional since you can use the secondary roller to select new subviews and return directly from that view by going arrow up and then back.

Or am I missing something?
Title: Re: Theaterview secondary roller, please explain!
Post by: Matt on July 05, 2011, 03:11:35 pm
If you go into 'Audio' in the stock views, the secondary roller has choices like 'Artists', 'Album', etc.

Is that what you're looking for?
Title: Re: Theaterview secondary roller, please explain!
Post by: raldo on July 05, 2011, 03:39:33 pm
If you go into 'Audio' in the stock views, the secondary roller has choices like 'Artists', 'Album', etc.

Is that what you're looking for?

That's what I'm looking for, yes.

I am importing my views and it seems as if Theater View does not import those views correctly.

See attached image. The selected view contains 3 levels: Artist(grouped a-z), artist, year-album.

Apparently the editbox which shows these levels is gone! The same goes for imported video views, but not for my image views.

Title: Re: Theaterview secondary roller, please explain!
Post by: JimH on July 05, 2011, 03:43:44 pm
Don't import your old settings.  Set them up again in Theater View options.  The format changed.
Title: Re: Theaterview secondary roller, please explain!
Post by: raldo on July 05, 2011, 03:44:06 pm
See attached image for "images" folder. This was imported too...
Title: Re: Theaterview secondary roller, please explain!
Post by: minolotus on July 05, 2011, 04:42:15 pm
See attached image. The selected view contains 3 levels: Artist(grouped a-z), artist, year-album.

Apparently the editbox which shows these levels is gone! The same goes for imported video views, but not for my image views.

The edit box is missing because "Artist(grouped a-z)" is a root library item whereas Album/Year under images is a standard library item. I am not sure but I don't think that is possible to change the item type. Therefore you need to delete the view and set them up again.
Title: Re: Theaterview secondary roller, please explain!
Post by: raldo on July 06, 2011, 05:28:27 am
Don't import your old settings.  Set them up again in Theater View options.  The format changed.

The standard mode views were imported from MC15. They look just fine in MC16 standard mode.

I then imported those views to Theater View in mc16. Does this mean that, somehow, the old standard stuff is retained in mc16?

Do I need to redo the standard views in MC16  too? Confusing, this is.

Title: Re: Theaterview secondary roller, please explain!
Post by: MrHaugen on July 06, 2011, 06:16:54 am
It's not really that confusing. If you want things to work in Theater View, you do it all over again. Standard view views will probably work just fine. It's up to you if you want a working video environment in Theater View or not, and if you want to be sure no problems comes up in standard view.
Title: Re: Theaterview secondary roller, please explain!
Post by: JimH on July 06, 2011, 06:17:27 am
The standard mode views were imported from MC15. They look just fine in MC16 standard mode.

I then imported those views to Theater View in mc16. Does this mean that, somehow, the old standard stuff is retained in mc16?

Do I need to redo the standard views in MC16  too? Confusing, this is.
For Theater View, you will need to start fresh with MC16.  The format changed.
Title: Re: Theaterview secondary roller, please explain!
Post by: Mr ChriZ on July 06, 2011, 06:25:03 am
Don't use the "Add Library Item From Standard View" option as it's broken.
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=64161.0
Title: Re: Theaterview secondary roller, please explain!
Post by: glynor on July 06, 2011, 10:45:50 am
Don't use the "Add Library Item From Standard View" option as it's broken.
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=64161.0

It worked for me the other day.  I think some of that, at least, has been fixed.

I only used it to import the "bottom level" Views, and not any of the Parent Views (I configured those manually, but that's fine because they are typically much more simple).
Title: Re: Theaterview secondary roller, please explain!
Post by: Mr ChriZ on July 06, 2011, 04:43:30 pm
It worked for me the other day.  I think some of that, at least, has been fixed.

I only used it to import the "bottom level" Views, and not any of the Parent Views (I configured those manually, but that's fine because they are typically much more simple).

I can confirm this seems to be working now.  I repeated my original use case without encountering difficulties.
This doesn't seem to be mentioned specifically in the logs anywhere.  Maybe it was a case of another fix killing two birds as it were.
Title: Re: Theaterview secondary roller, please explain!
Post by: raldo on July 08, 2011, 07:54:14 am
I can confirm this seems to be working now....

It works if I add my old views into a new "Root Library Item" and not a "Category".

I don't know if this is a bug or not, but it's good enough for me!