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[Mr ChriZ]

I'm trying to organise my Video Files better.

I've created some custom fields for organising my TV Series stuff.
x Programme
x Series
x Episode

Series and Episode are Integers, and Programme is a string.

I've then created a custom view scheme called TV Series
which is available from Video in the Tree.

The tags for all my Videos are filling up.
Here is what an episode of LOST looks like.
Programme : LOST
Series: 1
Episode: 3
Name: Tabula Rasa

Here's where I'm at with the views
http://img527.imageshack.us/my.php?image=lost0jw.png

Alls looking good...
However when I get to the point where the user is selecting which episode to use,
I would like the thumbnails to display
[Episode] - [Name]
underneath.
So from here I right click on the view and select customize view.
I'm presented with the following Dialog:

http://img506.imageshack.us/my.php?image=lostdialogue2el.png

Now according to the dialouge the thumbnail text is [Name]
Which it isn't because it's [Episode]
Changing it to [Episode] gives identical results however.
I can change it to "[Episode] [Programme]"
and each thumbnail displays for example in episode 3's case
3 LOST
If I change it to [Episode] [Name] however it displays
3 3.
It should be displaying
3 Tabula Rasa

Is this a bug?
On 182.

Edit:
I've just tested it, and at each level it's using the [Name] in the dialogue to
represent the view level which seems wrong.... 

Also does this not look a little odd to anyone:
Programmes  > L  O S T Series > 1 Episode

Cheers
Chris.

[jgreen]

For clarity's sake, wouldn't you want to call the episode name custom field "title", or "episode name"?  I guess I understand why you wouldn't just call that episode "3--Tabula Rasa".  But why not "Tabula Rasa (Ep. 3)"?

[Mr ChriZ]

For clarity's sake, wouldn't you want to call the episode name custom field "title", or "episode name"? 

No more than with Audio, creating custom fields called Track Name?
Name works for me...

I guess I understand why you wouldn't just call that episode "3--Tabula Rasa".  But why not "Tabula Rasa (Ep. 3)"?

That would be causing data redundancy...  I'd rather not if possible.

What I'm getting at is that Default Thumbnail text should be what the current view is showing.
So if I'm looking at Artists in Audio then the default thumbnail text should be
[Artist]

If I'm looking at Albums then it should be
[Album]

Not [Name] unless I'm looking at a view based showing all records by Name.
[Name] should refer to the Name tag nothing else.

This is in my opinion a bug.

Edit:
I've removed my first follow up post because at the time
I didn't understand how MC deals with multiple records with Thumbnail text,
and i thought I was doing something wrong, but that is not so.
My first post still stands.