Hi there, great product, love it.
One thing I've been REALLY trying to do for awhile now is to set up my VIDEO tree so damn simply that I can just browse folders. No ratings, no groupings, no frills.
I'm a software developer, so not totally inexperienced with XML. I just can't wrap my head around some of the finite points with the nav tree...
2 questions:
view-definitions.xml is the main tree structure, which is then filtered by views, right? Is adding a new view as simple as creating a new blah.view.xml file? (I tried to add a new file -- copied from one of the stock views -- and couldn't see it in the initial setup options following a service restart).
I wound up just editing folder.view.xml to really really strip down the navigation. Currently, it just has:
<container id="video">
<link id="video/folders" />
</container>
That's pretty well for what I'm after, but what my preference would really be is when on a PS3 or XBOX 360 I go into Videos, it simply shows the folder view.
Currently, I navigate to VIDEOS -> BY FOLDER -> [folderlist]
Is it at all possible to move that [folderlist] up a level in the tree? I wouldn't ask if I hadn't already spent 5 hours trying to do this myself... )
Kind regards!
Jordan Bowness
Nav tree question (yup, I've read, searched, researched)
Re: Nav tree question (yup, I've read, searched, researched)
I'm also looking to do the same thing if anyone has accomplished this.
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Re: Nav tree question (yup, I've read, searched, researched)
I havn't tried moving it up a level, but I have created a slimmed down view of just the ones I use.
I took a copy of the advanced.view.xml and called it marksDefault.view.xml and stipped out the nodes I did not need.
The final thing I had to do was the add the view to the main views list by editing the first line in view-definitions.xml
(snippet)
I then did a server restart and selected my new view under "Initial Steps". Job Done... Obviously a upgrade will overwrite the view-definitions.xml each time, so I will need to add them back (and likely set the default view back in the web interface)
I took a copy of the advanced.view.xml and called it marksDefault.view.xml and stipped out the nodes I did not need.
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<view name='marksDefault' path='marksDefault.view'>
<navtree>
<container id='music'>
<link id='music/artistindex' />
<link id='music/folders' />
<link id='music/rating' />
<link id='music/playlists' />
<link groupid='music/onlineservices' />
</container>
<container id='picture' >
<link id='picture/folders' />
<link id='picture/year' />
<link id='picture/rating' />
<link groupid='picture/onlineservices' />
</container>
<container id='video' >
<link id='video/folders' />
<link id='video/year' />
<link id='video/rating' />
<link groupid='video/onlineservices' />
</container>
</navtree>
</view>
(snippet)
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<view name='base' viewlist='advanced,folder,ipodlike,simple,classified,playlists,marksDefault' guilist='advanceddefault,ipodlike,simpledefault,byfolder,marksDefault>
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