Filter by path

[silkshadow]

So I am neck deep into VFS and I am blown away how useful it is. I've been creating views all evening. I've come up with 2 questions. I was wondering if there was a way to filter by path?

Specifically I am working on sports views. My sports are in:

//<servername>/media/Sports/<name of sport>
Sage import path: //<servername>/media

So something like:

      <filter by="path">
      <option name="scope" value="media/Sports/Football"/>
      <option name="scope" value="include"/>
      </filter>

My second question is one I think is just an XML format issue. I have one view I was working on to filter out watched episodes and a genre. Code fragment looks like:

			
<view-source name="phoenix.view.primary.importedtv"/>
      <filter by="genre" value="Mature">
      <option name="scope" value="exclude"/>
      </filter>
      <filter by="watched">
      <option name="scope" value="exclude"/>
      </filter>

I think I just do not know how to correctly list multiple filters. Should I be using something like <filters></filters> instead?

Thanks!

[stuckless]

The filter by path problem that you mention might be solvable by using the "bookmark" or "root" behaviour of a view.

bookmark and root options are used to position the view automatically after creation... and the difference is that root will make the folder path of the view to be the root (ie, user cannot navigate up).

Here's a view that I use to point to where I put new movies before I organize them.

                <view name="sls_newmovies" label="New Movies" flat="false">
                        <option name="bookmark" value="/Movies/New"/>
                        <option name="children-only" value="true"/>

                        <description>Movies in the New folder</description>
                        <tag value="video"/>

                            <view-source name="phoenix.view.default.videofolders"/>
                </view>

Also, there is a filepath filter that can probably do something similar to what you are asking for as well.

Check out the VFS page for a list of filters/sorters/groupers/sources, etc... This list may be a little out of date... i may need to generate an updated version with the newer list of filters, etc.

For multiple Filters... You cannot put multiple filter children in a View. You can mimic the behaviour if you create a new "filter" in the <filters> section that describes it's filters... For example the missing metada filter looks like this...

                <item-group name="missingmetadata-ext" label="Missing Metadata extended Filter" mode="and">
                        <filter by="homevideos" scope="exclude"/>
                        <filter by="missingmetadata"/>
                        <tag value="video"/>
                        <tag value="tv"/>
                </item-group>

So this "excludes" homevideos but includes missingmetadata.

Here's a link to the x-vfs.xml file for reference... check the <filters> section.

[silkshadow]

Awesome, thanks again! I have some xmls to play with tomorrow .

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by silkshadow

Awesome, thanks again! I have some xmls to play with tomorrow .

Also for certain types of filtering you can look at the PQL (Phoenix Query Language) as well. You can do some pretty complex queries against the metadata, but unfortunately you can access fields like "watched" since that is not a metadata field

[silkshadow]

Holy crap Stuckless, this is like a full blown CMS system. Is there anything you didn't think to include? Looking forward to diving into PQL tonight.

[stuckless]

Something else to keep in mind when you are using BMT is that there is an undocumented "long press" operation for a media file. So, when you are browsing a view, if you long press/click on the item it will give a menu of operations for that specific item, such as, delete it, set watch, and one of my favorites, video thumbnails. I used to use the video thumbnails to look at a recording to see if it was corrupted/correct, back when my hdpvr was giving my issues (although I haven't had to use it for some time now).

[silkshadow]

Thanks! This is a very cool little hidden pop up. Video thumbnails and debugged metadata details is beyond great.

[TwistedMelon]

Can anyone shed some light on how to install the little xml snippet above to obtain a different view in BMT? I'd also very much like to create a few views that are rooted at specific points of a remote filesystem.

[silkshadow]

Here is one I did:

<!DOCTYPE vfs SYSTEM "vfs.dtd">
<vfs>
	<views>
		<view name="silkmovlang" label="1Silk Foreign Movies by Language" flat="true">
			<tag value="movie"/>
			<view-source name="phoenix.view.source.allimportedvideo"/>
      <filter by="filepath">
        <option name="use-regex-matching" value="true"/>
        <option name="value" value="Movies\\Foreign Movies"/>
			</filter>	

      <presentation level="1">
        <group by="metadata">
          <option name="empty-foldername" value="Unknown"/>
          <option name="field" value="Language"/>
        </group>
        <sort by="title">
					<option name="sort-order" value="asc"/>
					<option name="folders-first" value="false"/>
				</sort>
      </presentation>	
      
			<presentation level="2">
				<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"/>
          <option name="ignore-all" value="true"/>
				</sort>
			</presentation>		
			
      <presentation level="3">
    			<sort by="title">
					<option name="sort-order" value="asc"/>
					<option name="folders-first" value="false"/>
          <option name="ignore-all" value="true"/>
				</sort>          
			</presentation>
      
		</view>
	</views>
</vfs>

The key bit for filter by path is this:

      <filter by="filepath">
        <option name="use-regex-matching" value="true"/>
        <option name="value" value="Movies\\Foreign Movies"/>
			</filter>

I am using UNC paths, so the value is a piece of the overall path that matches to only the files I want to see in this view. I have a ..\BRD\Foreign Movies folder as well and I did not want that included in this view. So I need to add the Movies\ in the regex match. The match is case sensitive.