Populating a Flow

[alfi33]

Originally Posted by jusjoken

Can you open an issue on the issues site with these pics and I will look into fixing this for the next release.

k

Done. Thanks for taking a look. I'm really liking Gemstone!

[matt91]

I'm also seeing (or, as the case may be, not seeing) a usercategory issue.

I have three categories set for my favorites - dads, parents, kids.

However, when i go into the usercategory filter menu on a flow, i only ever see "dads." The other categories don't appear, so i can't filter on them.

Perhaps this is related to the issue described above by alfi regarding the two kinds of categories.

i can add pics/additional info if needed.

thanks
Matt

[jorton]

Already on the issue log. Thanks for reporting.

J

[Fuzzy]

What API call are you guys using to handle the usercategory filter? Because of the complex nature of UserCategories (that being individual Recording UserCategory Tags, as well as Tags associated with a favorite), Sage added a specific function to the FilterByMethod() call to handle this. If you are not using FilterByMethod for this, and instead just pulling it from GetMediaFileMetadata(), then you are only looking at the recording's UserCategory, and not the favorite's.

As far as I know, regarding the favorite based UserCategories, I think the only way to use them are via GetFavoriteProperty(fav as favorite, "UserCategory") and SetFavoriteProperty(fav as favorite, "UserCategory", cat as string), each of which use comma delimeted lists, and FilterByMethod.

I also think there is yet another "UserCategory" tied to manual recordings, that you get via GetManualRecordProperty( airing as airing, "UserCategory") and SetManualRecordProperty( airing as airing, "UserCategory", cat as string).

The way the default UI pulls the UserCategories to be displayed in the detailed info screen, and basically be the steps needed to do this filtering without using the filterbymethod call, is as such:

[Fuzzy]

I'm certainly not a java guy, but it looks like if you modified your GetUserCategory function as such, it should handle all the situations the core sagetv product handles:

public static String GetUserCategory(Object IMR){
        IMediaResource imediaresource = Source.ConvertToIMR(IMR);
        if (imediaresource!=null){ 
            if (phoenix.media.IsMediaType( imediaresource , "FOLDER" )){
                return "FOLDER";
            }else{
                String tCat = sagex.api.MediaFileAPI.GetMediaFileMetadata(IMR, "UserCategory");
		if (sagex.api.AiringAPI.IsFavorite(IMR)) {
			if (tCat.length() > 0) {
				tCat += ", ";
			}
			String tCat += sagex.api.GetFavoriteProperty(GetFavoriteForAiring(IMR), "UserCategory");
		}
		if (sagex.api.AiringAPI.IsManualRecord(IMR)) {
			if (tCat.length() > 0) {
				tCat += ", ";
			}
			String tCat += sagex.api.GetManualRecordProperty(IMR, "UserCategory");
		}
                if (tCat==null){
                    return "null found";
                }else{
                    tCat.replace(", $",""); ' remove potential trailing comma and space
                    return tCat;
                }
            }
        }
        return "";
    }

[jusjoken]

Thanks for digging into this. The code you found in Gemstone actually was only a test function that I should have removed as I am using the "hasUserCategory" function in Phoenix and in it I am checking for Manual Recordings but I was NOT checking the favorites part you pointed out... so I will update the Phoenix call and then the next push Stuckless does should solve this in Gemstone.

For the list produced in Gemstone UI... this one will require a new version of Gemstone to correct it.

k