populate DISPLAY field in database

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populate DISPLAY field in database

Postby billberet on Mon Jan 05, 2009 3:12 pm

F2 - databases - Edit Video Database
how do i add data to the DISPLAY field (field found under coverart)
I have my own metamask populating (Name, Title, SortTitle), i do a custom import, creating my own database fields.
but the display field is always the parent directory name
I tried adding (?<display>.*) to my import metamask but had no luck.

The Display field is populating with just the top level directory name, so if i have 20 records, they all display the same thing. so i have to click on each one and view the details to see what record i'm looking at.

so i'll have 20 records displaying 'SOUTHPARK' and i'll have to click on each to see which file goes with that record.
If you look at the default video import, there is no display field on it, but yet it gets populated with the full directory path.
But with my custom import, it's just the parent directory name,

how do you populate the DISPLAY field?
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Re: populate DISPLAY field in database

Postby billberet on Mon Jan 05, 2009 6:28 pm

i did some more research and i figured out the regular expressions.
now i can import no problems. but i'm still stuck on the Display field.
if i add a new line to my metamask for the DISPLAY named group, will that be valid?
Does the import stop after the first valid metamask, then move to the next record?
if that is the case, i would have to add the DISPLAY field to my current metamask line.

is this a correct assumption?
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Re: populate DISPLAY field in database

Postby billberet on Tue Jan 06, 2009 3:16 pm

i found it, the name field populates the display field as well

:)
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