Need help with a custom view

[Danielc2]

I created a view to display all movies from a folder on my hard drive called Movies. In my Movies folder on my hard drive I have sub-folders for each movie. When I run this view, it returns a list of the folders. I would like it to return the list of movies, not the list of folders. It seems like the flat="true" option does this. However, when I set this option, video files are displayed from ALL of my video folders, not just my Movies folder.

Here is the view I created. Very similar to a lot of the examples that have already been posted. However, I'm sure everyone's folder structures vary:

<!DOCTYPE vfs SYSTEM "vfs.dtd">
<vfs>
      <views>
            <view name="dcc.vfs.video.movies" label="DCC Movies" flat="false">
                  <option name="root" value="/Movies/"/>
                  <option name="children-only" value="true"/>
                  <description>Display movies only</description>
                  <tag value="video"/>
                  <view-source name="phoenix.view.default.videofolders"/>
                     <presentation>
                      <sort by="title">
                     <option name="folders-first" value="false"/>
                        </sort>
                      </presentation>
                      </view>
      </views>
</vfs>

Does anyone know of a good way to get this view to return a list of movies?

[wrems]

The way I handle these is to use 2 queries. Use the first to isolate the folder you want and the other to apply any presentation you need. Something like this:

  <view name="dcc.vfs.video.import.movies" label="DCC Movies" flat="false" visible="false">
    <option name="root" value="/Movies/"/>
    <option name="children-only" value="true"/>
    <description>Display movies only</description>
    <tag value="video"/>
    <view-source name="phoenix.view.default.videofolders"/>
  </view>

  <view name="dcc.vfs.video.movies" label="DCC Movies" flat="true" visible="true">
    <view-source name="dcc.vfs.video.import.movies"/>
    <presentation>
      <sort by="title">
        <option name="sort-order" value="asc"/>
        <option name="ignore-all" value="true"/>
      </sort>
    </presentation>
  </view>

That will solve those issues.

[Danielc2]

Wrems, thank you so much! That is exactly what I needed. Works perfectly now.

I am loving Phoenix! It looks fantastic and is giving me the power to setup my media center UI exactly the way I want it setup.

[bialio]

That's the idea