Filterdetails overlay not working

[rorsdors]

I have an overlay screen in my skin that has a category called filterdetails. I could show this by using show abc overlay, category <music> and filter by year or genre. Works fine in version 1.0.2397.32545, but has stopped working lately - nothing shows in details.

Has anything changed in the way this should be set up - I have tried all sorts of permutations but just cannot get it to work now.

This is driving me nuts - help!

[hvs69]

I am also having similar problems. Although, I did not get chance to investigate this problem further. It seems that I cannot use filter with certain fields in the DB for some other fields it works fine.

I found that if you put "filterdetails" in the results category box for set filter event, I could get the results. But, when I clicked on a particular item, there was no response. I don't know if I made sense here.

[cinOxen]

You two having any luck getting this working?

I'm using Naylia's MC skin and want to add some search functionality. Filters work on my xlobby version in all skins that include it, but for some reason I can't seem to set it up myself.

I have a screen with a category "music" linked to database "music" and a button that triggers the events: "show overlay" and "set filter" (Category:music). The overlay that opens contains a category called "filterdetails". This seems to be the method most skins use to display filters but for some reason I can't get anything to show in the filterdetails category.

[scottw]

I have mine open the search screen and then do a "reset" on the category "filterdetails".
On the Search screen where it shows the results of my search (textbox):
Category tab:
Name: filterdetails
Info Screen: Movies
Display: %filterdetails%%display%

And the database selected below is "movies"

That is how my Movies search but should be basically the same for your music.

Hope that helps.

[scottw]

You can also check http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3147&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=230 for a search page I made for that skin.

[cinOxen]

Thanks for the help scottw.

I'm glad you got things working how you want them but what I'm looking for is the ability to search by genre, albumname, artist, etc. My inability to get anything to appear in the filterdetails category is driving me crazy!!

I like the keyboard you've developed by the way - well done.

[scottw]

Sorry I misunderstood. Let me look at my setup to see how I am doing it. I am still pretty new to this so I have to refresh my memory.

[scottw]

I have a filter that display's a list of Genre's for my movies and then clicking on one of them will show only the movies in that Genre. I believe that is the same thing you are trying to do.

My overlay that opens has a category:
Name: "filterdetails"
Info Screen: movies
Display: %display%

My event is as follows:
Show Overlay
----name of the screen
reset (reset is under the "Category" commands, I do this incase it is already sorted by something)
----Category Name: filterdetails
set filter
----Category: movies
----Filter: Genre


I hope this helps, I am pretty new to XL so if it does not help hopefully someone will chime in soon.

[cinOxen]

Thanks again for the help scottw.

The setup you posted is just about the same as what I've been trying. The only differences were that I wasn't doing a reset on filterdetails when bringing up the overlay and I didn't have anything under the Info Screen field for the filterdetails category.

I've tried your settings but unfortunately they didn't work.

I've now also created a basic skin in order to start fresh. I can get the filter working properly this way but can't seem to incorporate it into the current skin.

Probably forgetting to carry the one somewhere

Cheers

[cinOxen]

I've gotten so obsessed with this problem I need to take a step back and ask for help. I'm going to provide my skin and see if anyone will take a look at it. The screen in question is music_filter. I will be extremely grateful for any help.

This is what the overlay looks like:

(filterdetails is on the right)

The skin is here. It is a modified version of Naylia's XLobbyMC Skin.

[cinOxen]

Well this is very frustrating. I basically gave up trying to add search functionality to Naylia's skin and started developing tonihappy's mce skin. Everything works great when adding a filterdetails category to the music section but after cloning the same screen to use with movies nothing works.

I can't help thinking there is some sort of bug that sometimes prevents filterdetails from working correctly.

[Necro]

I'm trying to add this into Naylia's skin as well, using the default skin as a guide. Unfortunately, I cant get it working exactly the way I want yet, so it may be a bit. I'm thinking that if I can get custom displays setup that can change on the fly (i.e. display genre as top level , then artist, then album, etc...)

[cinOxen]

That sounds like an interesting way of browsing music. If you can't figure out how to implement it with filters you could always customize your music database.

Out of curiosity have you been able to get filters working at all in the skin?

[Necro]

Not yet.

And the reason I had that idea was from my meedio setup. I basically used the following methods/tagging to get things the way I wanted:

- A tag that was was either blank or said soundtrack or compilation. That allowed me to show all music, just soundtracks, or just compilations.
- A tag that had the real artist name to display (i.e. Janis Joplin).
- A tag that had the 'sorting' artist name (i.e. Joplin, Janis).
- A track that had the artists name for albums and the album name for compilations.

Using these, and a top level tree structure, you could select how to sort through your database. I could select from view by genre->album or genre->artist, artist->album, or year->album, etc. basically anything at all.

It just made things extremely customizeable...I'm trying to duplicate the few ways that seemed easiest to use at parties. Artist -> Album and search for song. Also, 'soundtrack' or 'compilation' seperate sections. I think that will come down to multiple databases at this point. Which is only really a problem for soundtracks included in the 'main' database of music since they will come up as albums for multiple artists with only one track each I think.

Does that make any sense?

And no - haven't gotten the filter/search working yet. Give me some more time to work on it though.

[scottw]

Ok I had a little breakthru on this. I am adding a PPC section and am using the Heavy Metal PPC skin. It already has a cool search page which will search by artist but I wanted to add buttons to it to be able to search by album, genre, trackname, etc.... By default when you click the find button it triggers a "Show abc overlay" and a "Set filter" (by artist). I added the buttons and set them to "Set Filter"
Category: music
Filter: albumname

and so on.

Guess what it did not work.

I then saw in the "set filter" command the optional "Results Category", I set this to filterdetails and IT WORKED.

Not sure if this will help you but it's worth a try.