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Old 09-19-2007, 12:23 PM
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Custom Menus question.
Hi,
I have created a custom menu for family photos and movies using SageMC
16x9 and the BlueTwo skin. However all the photos and films can also be viewed with the general MY Films and My Pictures menu items which I didnt really want.

Is it possible to specify which menu item can read specific folders to keep family photos and films seperate from general media.

Had a quick look but as usual I can never find the information I want

Thanks inadvance for any help provided

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Old 09-20-2007, 06:39 AM
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Well its obviuosly a stupid question or an easy question where the answers right in front of my face, but I cant see it for looking.

Anyone?? Yes or No will do, just need to know if its possible.

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Old 09-20-2007, 06:54 AM
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Sound like your import directories are all yes, Go to setup then detailed setup under general then media center import directories click on modify
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Old 09-20-2007, 07:04 AM
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Well its obviuosly a stupid question or an easy question where the answers right in front of my face, but I cant see it for looking.

Anyone?? Yes or No will do, just need to know if its possible.

Thanks
Hi jaminben,

neither stupid nor easy, but if you had mentioned 'SageMC' in your thread title I might have spotted it earlier

Regarding your question: yes, you can create two or more menu items that filter on different music and videos directories (this functionality is not yet available for photos, but I'll check if I can get this into the next version)

In order to restrict the music or video view to one or more specific directories, you have to edit your dynamic menu definition file and add the following:

Code:
        <internalScreenMenuItem icon="hover_my videos.png" screen="Video Library Folder View" title="My Personal Videos">
            <evalExpression>AddStaticContext("PathFilterExprs", new_java_util_ArrayList())</evalExpression>
            <evalExpression>java_util_List_add(PathFilterExprs, "\\\\server\\videos\personal")</evalExpression>
            <evalExpression>AddStaticContext("PathFilterExcludes", false)</evalExpression>
        </internalScreenMenuItem>
The above example would create a video menu that only includes videos from \\server\videos\personal.

Likewise, if you want to show all videos except those from the personal folder, set AddStaticContext("PathFilterExcludes", true)


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Old 09-20-2007, 07:25 AM
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Excellent,
Thankyou both for the quick replys. I shall go and have a play with this now

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Old 09-20-2007, 08:58 AM
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hmmm, this seems a little hard for me, are there any tutorials which I could use. Could you also point me the direction of the dynamic menu definition file.(cant find it on mine)

Regards

jaminben

The only one I can find is sagemc_menu.bak, is the correct one?
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Old 09-20-2007, 10:14 AM
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You're looking for sagemc_menu.xml.


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Old 09-20-2007, 10:36 AM
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Thanks gplasky

So the default looks like the code below,

Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE sageMenu PUBLIC "-//NIELM//DTD SAGEMENU XML 1.4//EN" "http://www.sage-community.org/~nielm/nielm_modules/dynamic_menu/sagemenu_1_3.dtd">
<sageMenu version="1.4">
    <menu title="Main">
        <internalScreenMenuItem icon="hover_my videos.png" screen="Video Library Folder View" title="Movies">
            <evalExpression> </evalExpression>
        </internalScreenMenuItem>
        <!--                                   -->
        <internalScreenMenuItem icon="hover_my tv.png" screen="My TV" title="Televison">
            <evalExpression> </evalExpression>
        </internalScreenMenuItem>
        <!--                                   -->
        <subMenuItem title="TV Series">
            <menu title="TV Series"/>
        </subMenuItem>
        <!--                                   -->
        <subMenuItem title="Family Archive">
            <menu title="Family Archive">
                <subMenuItem title="Camcorder">
                    <menu title="Camcorder"/>
                </subMenuItem>
                <!--                                   -->
                <subMenuItem title="Photographs">
                    <menu title="Photographs"/>
                </subMenuItem>
                <!--                                   -->
            </menu>
        </subMenuItem>
        <!--                                   -->
        <subMenuItem icon="hover_my explorer.png" title="My Menu">
            <menu title="My Menu">
                <internalScreenMenuItem screen="Google Video" title="Google Video">
                    <evalExpression> </evalExpression>
                </internalScreenMenuItem>
                <!--                                   -->
                <internalScreenMenuItem screen="YouTube Video" title="YouTube">
                    <evalExpression> </evalExpression>
                </internalScreenMenuItem>
                <!--                                   -->
                <internalScreenMenuItem screen="Rss News Feeds -- nielm" title="RSS Feeds">
                    <evalExpression> </evalExpression>
                </internalScreenMenuItem>
                <!--                                   -->
                <internalScreenMenuItem screen="Video Conversions" title="Video Conversions">
                    <evalExpression> </evalExpression>
                </internalScreenMenuItem>
                <!--                                   -->
                <internalScreenMenuItem screen="Parental Controls" title="Parental Controls">
                    <evalExpression> </evalExpression>
                </internalScreenMenuItem>
                <!--                                   -->
                <internalScreenMenuItem screen="Setup Menu" title="Settings">
                    <evalExpression> </evalExpression>
                </internalScreenMenuItem>
                <!--                                   -->
            </menu>
        </subMenuItem>
        <!--                                   -->
    </menu>
</sageMenu>
And the updated file would look like,

Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE sageMenu PUBLIC "-//NIELM//DTD SAGEMENU XML 1.4//EN" "http://www.sage-community.org/~nielm/nielm_modules/dynamic_menu/sagemenu_1_3.dtd">
<sageMenu version="1.4">
    <menu title="Main">
        <internalScreenMenuItem icon="hover_my videos.png" screen="Video Library Folder View" title="Movies">
            <evalExpression> </evalExpression>
        </internalScreenMenuItem>
        <!--                                   -->
        <internalScreenMenuItem icon="hover_my tv.png" screen="My TV" title="Televison">
            <evalExpression> </evalExpression>
        </internalScreenMenuItem>
        <!--                                   -->
        <subMenuItem title="TV Series">
            <menu title="TV Series"/>
        </subMenuItem>
        <!--                                   -->
        <internalScreenMenuItem icon="hover_my videos.png" screen="Video Library Folder View" title="Family Archive">
            <evalExpression>AddStaticContext("PathFilterExprs", new_java_util_ArrayList())</evalExpression>
            <evalExpression>java_util_List_add(PathFilterExprs, "\\\\jaminbenpc\\videos\camcorder")</evalExpression>
            <evalExpression>AddStaticContext("PathFilterExcludes", false)</evalExpression>
        </internalScreenMenuItem>
                </subMenuItem>
                <!--                                   -->
                <subMenuItem title="Photographs">
                    <menu title="Photographs"/>
                </subMenuItem>
                <!--                                   -->
            </menu>
        </subMenuItem>
        <!--                                   -->
        <subMenuItem icon="hover_my explorer.png" title="My Menu">
            <menu title="My Menu">
                <internalScreenMenuItem screen="Google Video" title="Google Video">
                    <evalExpression> </evalExpression>
                </internalScreenMenuItem>
                <!--                                   -->
                <internalScreenMenuItem screen="YouTube Video" title="YouTube">
                    <evalExpression> </evalExpression>
                </internalScreenMenuItem>
                <!--                                   -->
                <internalScreenMenuItem screen="Rss News Feeds -- nielm" title="RSS Feeds">
                    <evalExpression> </evalExpression>
                </internalScreenMenuItem>
                <!--                                   -->
                <internalScreenMenuItem screen="Video Conversions" title="Video Conversions">
                    <evalExpression> </evalExpression>
                </internalScreenMenuItem>
                <!--                                   -->
                <internalScreenMenuItem screen="Parental Controls" title="Parental Controls">
                    <evalExpression> </evalExpression>
                </internalScreenMenuItem>
                <!--                                   -->
                <internalScreenMenuItem screen="Setup Menu" title="Settings">
                    <evalExpression> </evalExpression>
                </internalScreenMenuItem>
                <!--                                   -->
            </menu>
        </subMenuItem>
        <!--                                   -->
    </menu>
</sageMenu>
I'm a complete noob when it comes to this so any help would be greatly appriciated.

Cheers

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Old 09-20-2007, 11:13 AM
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Looks fine, but note that the "Movies" menu will still show *all* of your videos, including those in "\videos\camcorder"... If you want to have two distinct sets of videos, you also need a filter (this time an 'exclude' filter) for the Movies menu:

Code:
<sageMenu version="1.4">
    <menu title="Main">
        <internalScreenMenuItem icon="hover_my videos.png" screen="Video Library Folder View" title="Movies">
            <evalExpression>AddStaticContext("PathFilterExprs", new_java_util_ArrayList())</evalExpression>
            <evalExpression>java_util_List_add(PathFilterExprs, "\\\\jaminbenpc\\videos\camcorder")</evalExpression>
            <evalExpression>AddStaticContext("PathFilterExcludes", true)</evalExpression>
        </internalScreenMenuItem>
        <!--                                   -->
        <internalScreenMenuItem icon="hover_my tv.png" screen="My TV" title="Televison">
            <evalExpression> </evalExpression>
        </internalScreenMenuItem>
        <!--                                   -->
        <subMenuItem title="TV Series">
            <menu title="TV Series"/>
        </subMenuItem>
        <!--                                   -->
        <internalScreenMenuItem icon="hover_my videos.png" screen="Video Library Folder View" title="Family Archive">
            <evalExpression>AddStaticContext("PathFilterExprs", new_java_util_ArrayList())</evalExpression>
            <evalExpression>java_util_List_add(PathFilterExprs, "\\\\jaminbenpc\\videos\camcorder")</evalExpression>
            <evalExpression>AddStaticContext("PathFilterExcludes", false)</evalExpression>
        </internalScreenMenuItem>

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Old 09-20-2007, 12:20 PM
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You could proberly have guessed this but it doesnt work

Sage gives the error:

Failed to parse XML from c:\program files\sagetv\sagemc menu.xml
error at line 22 col 19:
The element type "menu" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "</menu>".

I've tried various combinations of code, but I'm really just guessing and its a bit like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Anyone spot the error and can fix it for me, please

Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE sageMenu PUBLIC "-//NIELM//DTD SAGEMENU XML 1.4//EN" "http://www.sage-community.org/~nielm/nielm_modules/dynamic_menu/sagemenu_1_3.dtd">
<sageMenu version="1.4">
    <menu title="Main">
        <internalScreenMenuItem icon="hover_my videos.png" screen="Video Library Folder View" title="Movies">
            <evalExpression> </evalExpression>
        </internalScreenMenuItem>
        <!--                                   -->
        <internalScreenMenuItem icon="hover_my tv.png" screen="My TV" title="Televison">
            <evalExpression> </evalExpression>
        </internalScreenMenuItem>
        <!--                                   -->
        <subMenuItem title="TV Series">
            <menu title="TV Series"/>
        </subMenuItem>
        <!--                                   -->
        <internalScreenMenuItem icon="hover_my videos.png" screen="Video Library Folder View" title="Family Archive">
            <evalExpression>AddStaticContext("PathFilterExprs", new_java_util_ArrayList())</evalExpression>
            <evalExpression>java_util_List_add(PathFilterExprs, "\\\\jaminbenpc\\Family Archive\Videos")</evalExpression>
            <evalExpression>AddStaticContext("PathFilterExcludes", false)</evalExpression>
        </internalScreenMenuItem>
                </subMenuItem>
                <!--                                   -->
                <subMenuItem title="Photographs">
                    <menu title="Photographs"/>
                </subMenuItem>
                <!--                                   -->
            </menu>
        </subMenuItem>
        <!--                                   -->
        <subMenuItem icon="hover_my explorer.png" title="My Menu">
            <menu title="My Menu">
                <internalScreenMenuItem screen="Google Video" title="Google Video">
                    <evalExpression> </evalExpression>
                </internalScreenMenuItem>
                <!--                                   -->
                <internalScreenMenuItem screen="YouTube Video" title="YouTube">
                    <evalExpression> </evalExpression>
                </internalScreenMenuItem>
                <!--                                   -->
                <internalScreenMenuItem screen="Rss News Feeds -- nielm" title="RSS Feeds">
                    <evalExpression> </evalExpression>
                </internalScreenMenuItem>
                <!--                                   -->
                <internalScreenMenuItem screen="Video Conversions" title="Video Conversions">
                    <evalExpression> </evalExpression>
                </internalScreenMenuItem>
                <!--                                   -->
                <internalScreenMenuItem screen="Parental Controls" title="Parental Controls">
                    <evalExpression> </evalExpression>
                </internalScreenMenuItem>
                <!--                                   -->
                <internalScreenMenuItem screen="Setup Menu" title="Settings">
                    <evalExpression> </evalExpression>
                </internalScreenMenuItem>
                <!--                                   -->
            </menu>
        </subMenuItem>
        <!--                                   -->
    </menu>
</sageMenu>
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Old 09-20-2007, 12:32 PM
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I've tried various combinations of code, but I'm really just guessing and its a bit like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Anyone spot the error and can fix it for me, please
Yeah, something got messed up. Try the attached menu file...


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Old 09-20-2007, 02:41 PM
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Yeah, something got messed up. Try the attached menu file...
Yep that appears to be working, thankyou. However none of the films showup. They do however work with the normal video section so I know the shares are working (I'll move onto filtering once I have the other part working).

I'm asuming the below code line refrences where my files are stored which is -

G:\family\videos.

I also have a UNC setup within Sage which points to -

\\jaminbenpc\family\videos.

<evalExpression>java_util_List_add(PathFilterExprs, "\\\\jaminbenpc\\family\videos")</evalExpression>

Any ideas what I need to do other than this?

Cheers

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Old 09-20-2007, 02:49 PM
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I'm asuming the below code line refrences where my files are stored which is -

G:\family\videos.

I also have a UNC setup within Sage which points to -

\\jaminbenpc\family\videos.
Which one of those do you use in SageTV for your import directory ? If it is the drive letter path, then you have to use this one in the filter expression. Also, check the case of all elements in the path, I think the filter comparison is case-sensitive...

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Old 09-20-2007, 02:57 PM
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Which one of those do you use in SageTV for your import directory ? If it is the drive letter path, then you have to use this one in the filter expression. Also, check the case of all elements in the path, I think the filter comparison is case-sensitive...
I used \\jaminben\family\videos for the SageTV import directory. I have also tried changing the file names of all the paths to lower case and removed the space from "family archive" to make it just "family". I've also redone the sharing of the folders and recreated an import directory within sagetv after renaming the directorys etc.
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Old 09-20-2007, 03:08 PM
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I used \\jaminben\family\videos for the SageTV import directory. I have also tried changing the file names of all the paths to lower case and removed the space from "family archive" to make it just "family". I've also redone the sharing of the folders and recreated an import directory within sagetv after renaming the directorys etc.
Which SageMC version are you using ? Check the Info in the "Settings" menu.

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Old 09-20-2007, 03:14 PM
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Which SageMC version are you using ? Check the Info in the "Settings" menu.
Software Version : SageTV V6.2.10.152
SageMC STV ersion : 6.3.3c
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Old 09-20-2007, 03:25 PM
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Software Version : SageTV V6.2.10.152
SageMC STV ersion : 6.3.3c
Should work...

Can you create a debug log and post it ?

- shut down UI
- add/edit

debug_logging=TRUE
plugins/df/debug_level=1

to your sagetv property file (Sage.properties, or SageClient.properties if you are using a client)

- restart UI
- select the filtered menu
- attach sagetv_0.txt (or sagetvclient_0.txt)


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Old 09-20-2007, 03:37 PM
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Ok , I've attached the log, hopefully i did it right

Thanks for helping me out like this

Maybe I didnt do it right, Attached another file
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Old 09-20-2007, 03:46 PM
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Ok , I've attached the log, hopefully i did it right

Thanks for helping me out like this
Oops, my bad, it should be

Code:
java_util_List_add(PathFilterExprs, "\\\\jaminbenpc\\Family Archive\\Videos")
instead of

Code:
java_util_List_add(PathFilterExprs, "\\\\jaminbenpc\\Family Archive\Videos")
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Old 09-20-2007, 04:00 PM
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Yep, Thats got the little bleeder working

Now before we get too excited I've also added true to the exclude filter to cut out the general media from this menu. Guess what? It dont work for me...

Heres the lines from the code to which I added true -

<internalScreenMenuItem icon="hover_my videos.png" screen="Video Library Folder View" title="Family Archive">
<evalExpression>AddStaticContext("PathFilterExprs", new_java_util_ArrayList())</evalExpression>
<evalExpression>java_util_List_add(PathFilterExprs, "\\\\jaminbenpc\\family\\videos")</evalExpression>
<evalExpression>AddStaticContext("PathFilterExcludes", true)</evalExpression>

Should this not also work?

Soo close to the finish line now
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