button for Genre in movies

[lar282]

Hi
Can somebody help me out?

I want a button on my movie screen and a text beside it. If I press it the category should only show all Action movies. If I press it again it should only show all family movies and so on. The text next to the button should show what the current genre viewing is. Is this possible? Does somebody allready have this in your skin?


//Lasse

[jmv]

Lasse,

I can help with some of your effort. Steven actually created 1/2 this capability specifically based on a request I had. The 1/2 that I use is filtering movies by Genre through a button. Unfortunatley with the site crash all that info was lost...so I'll summarize again here...

Use the F2 function to get to the Event tab. You then need to create an event using the "Custom Search" Capability. Under custom search you can specify the Catagory Name (e.g. movies)--steve says this is optional, but I think I found it required!...Specify the Field (e.g. Genre)...specify the specifics (e.g. family)

You then use the skin editor to assign that event to the button of your choice.

Regarding the 2nd point (text specify the field that is being sorted)...I don't know if that is possible, but you can display the current Genre(s) of the highlighted movie using the display text as category>movies>genre

[lar282]

Thanks alot. I will try as soon as possible.



//Lasse