Default grouping, sort order

[IVB]

I've been on stock UI since, oh, 2003, but Stuckless' G+ post made me curious about Phoenix. (I tried a few different things a few years ago but massive "OMFG YOU CHANGED IT" from wife/kids had me quickly back out.)

Anyhow; i've been reading various threads, want to make sure I've got this right. For TV shows & movies, I always want to have no grouping (by show), and always sort by date added (desc). In order to accomplish this, I *think* I need to manipulate the files on the server, is that correct? I tried making a manual change via the HD200, but when I exit the menu it resets itself.

thx

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by IVB

I've been on stock UI since, oh, 2003, but Stuckless' G+ post made me curious about Phoenix. (I tried a few different things a few years ago but massive "OMFG YOU CHANGED IT" from wife/kids had me quickly back out.)

Anyhow; i've been reading various threads, want to make sure I've got this right. For TV shows & movies, I always want to have no grouping (by show), and always sort by date added (desc). In order to accomplish this, I *think* I need to manipulate the files on the server, is that correct? I tried making a manual change via the HD200, but when I exit the menu it resets itself.

thx

I'm not 100% sure, but I don't think the View changes in Phoenix (done from the UI are sticky) (Brian can correct me if I'm wrong).

So, yeah, typically the vfs changes if you want them to be sicky, you will need to manually create a new view file on the server.

The easiest way to do this, is to simply override our default TV view with your own. TO do this,
1. create a file called "phoenix.view.default.TV.xml" in "SAGE_HOME/userdata/Phoenix/vfs/" (create the directory if necessary)
2. in that file paste the following...

<!DOCTYPE vfs SYSTEM "vfs.dtd">
<vfs>
	<views>
		<view name="phoenix.view.default.TV" label="TV Shows" flat="true">
			<tag value="tv" />
			<tag value="default" />
			<view-source name="phoenix.view.primary.recordedtv" />
			
			<!-- If you don't want imported tv, ie downloads, rips, etc then remove this line -->
			<view-source name="phoenix.view.primary.importedtv" />

			<presentation level="1">
				<sort by="recentactivity">
					<option name="sort-order" value="desc" />
				</sort>
			</presentation>
		</view>
	</views>
</vfs>

3. In BMT web ui, click "Refresh -> Refresh Configurations" (should get an OK message)

Then in BMT web UI, click on the TV Shows view from the Browse menu and see if it's showing what you like.

Now when you go into Phoenix (ie, TV) and you click TV Shows, then you'll see the TV shows view that you just created.

You should NEVER edit the x-vfs.xml file directly, because we will override that file. Any VFS chagnes should go in the userdata/Phoenix/vfs/ directory to ensure that you can easily add your own views that do not get overwritten, and you can easily remove views later, if you no longer want them.

[IVB]

cool thx!