Folders with o items showing up in my view..

[rtengvad]

Hi guys

I've worked hard trying to get my views fine-tuned, but I have one problem. I use the "prune-single-item-groups" option and it works fine for some of my recordings. Others however are showing up as 0-item folders.

I wonder if it has anything to do with my meta data. None of the movies tagged as movies shows up like this.

My view for my sage recordings looks like this:

<view name="rte_recordedtv" label="Recorded TV RTE" visible="${GetProperty(&quot;phoenix/core/enableAdvancedViews&quot;, true)==true}">
<description>Sage Recordings ALL</description>
<tag value="primary"/>
<tag value="tv" />
<view-source name="phoenix.view.source.sagerecordings"/>
<presentation>
<group by="title">
<option name="prune-single-item-groups" value="true"/>
</group>
<sort by="title">
<option name="sort-order" value="asc"/>
<option name="folders-first" value="false"/>
</sort>
</presentation>
</view>

Any help appreciated

Thanks Rasmus

[bialio]

What I'd do is get rid of the sort from the presentation, and see what your results are there. You can always apply a simple sort like that from the UI.

It appears that you are going for a view that is similar to the 'TV Shows' view (phoenix.view.default.TV) - you could try copying that and modifying it so that it has the 'prune-single-item' which I think is the main difference.....

On another note, I think generally you'll have the best luck using the *.primary.* views as the basis for building custom views - most of the default views build their content based on the one of the primary views.

btl.

[rtengvad]

Hi bialio, thanks for your time.

I followed your advice and copied the "recordings" view and used that. Used directly as it is written wih no changes, I see lot of single-item folders. But if I correct that apparent spelling mistake in the prune option. ie I add an "L" to singe so that

<option name="prune-singe-item-groups" value="true"/>
becomes
<option name="prune-single-item-groups" value="true"/>

Some single recordings shows up correctly, others as 0-item folders.

Rasmus

[rtengvad]

Originally Posted by bialio

On another note, I think generally you'll have the best luck using the *.primary.* views as the basis for building custom views - most of the default views build their content based on the one of the primary views.

btl.

The problem with the primary view "recorded tv" is that it filters out movies. But here where I live the epg data is incomplete and often tagged wrong. So I have shows where some episodes are tagged as "series", some as "movies", and some as "other". So the filter option just mess up. Then its better just to have all recordings together in one view.

Rasmus

[bialio]

Try something like this - this started as the .TV view I mentioned earlier, and I've modified it based on what it looks like you are going for:

		<view name="phoenix.view.default.RTE RECORDINGS" label="TV Shows RTE" flat="true">
			<tag value="tv" />
			<tag value="default"/>
			<view-source name="phoenix.view.primary.recordedtv"/>
			<view-source name="phoenix.view.primary.recordedmovies"/>

			<presentation>
				<group by="title">
					<option name="prune-single-item-groups" value="true"/>
				</group>
				<sort by="title">
					<option name="folders-first" value="false"/>
					<option name="sort-order" value="asc"/>
				</sort>
			</presentation>		
		</view>

[bialio]

If you want even more of your recorded content in there add

<view-source name="phoenix.view.primary.recordedtvarchived"/>

No everyone uses archive to do stuff, but that's the other place where you might have recorded content other than the two in the view above.
btl.

[bialio]

And I have just now (1:56 PM Central time) finished tweaking the code snippet above, so if you've looked at it before look one more time

Edit : Just noticed you're in Denmark - should be 8:56 PM your time.

btl.

[stuckless]

I'm trying to get my head around how we'd end up with an empty folder when creating the view. With prune-single-item-folder=false, do you end up with a folder with 1 item or still 0 items?

[rtengvad]

I've posted the views with the option set to false and true

false.jpg
true.jpg

As you can set the option set to false gives the expexted 1-item folders

I'll try your suggestion bialio. Time is now 21.36 so the window is open just bit longer (a father of three small kids has to go early to bed)

Thanks both of you for your help.

Rasmus

[rtengvad]

Originally Posted by bialio

Try something like this -

Hmm, no that did not help unfortunately.

None of the 0-item recordings are tagged as movies. I don't know if that has any significans.

Rasmus

[stuckless]

So, when there are zero item folders, does the show appear as well at the top level... or the show completely missing?

[rtengvad]

No, the shows are not missing, I can access the files through the 0-items folders that are in fact not empty. But somehow the prune option does not seem to work for certain shows, that instead are placed in folders that states they are empty.

Rasmus

[rtengvad]

Correction: When I select one of these 0-item folders, I jump directly to the play option menu, as you do when you select a file.

[bialio]

One thing you can try is to do some other browsers (besides the Single List as you have pictured) and see if the issue exists anywhere else. You can change the default browser in the options menu.
btl.

[rtengvad]

Originally Posted by bialio

One thing you can try is to do some other browsers (besides the Single List as you have pictured) and see if the issue exists anywhere else. You can change the default browser in the options menu.
btl.

Thanks for the suggestion.

In banner flow all items in the flow are treated as folders, no matter if they in single list shows up as single item or a 0-folder. I.e., when I select a show from the root I get to a folder structure to choo-se again the actual file/show, no matter the number of files.

In grid flow however everything seems to work correctly. If I select a show in the root I jump to the play option menu if there is just one file/show. Shows with several episodes are correctly treated as folders. Ie., when I select that show it opens a folder structure to choose the actual episode.

I'm not sure what conclusion can be drawn from this. but in any case, since I lack banners on most of my recordings due to local translations, I would prefer the list browser.

Rasmus

[bialio]

Well, we've narrowed it down to the Single List - which helps.