[Ramjet99]

Hi, Can anyone point to a tutorial on establishing new genres and then linking that genre to a caregory graphic? I thoguht I had it nailed but my 'martial Arts' genre fails to show.

[RoChess]

Originally Posted by Ramjet99

Hi, Can anyone point to a tutorial on establishing new genres and then linking that genre to a caregory graphic? I thoguht I had it nailed but my 'martial Arts' genre fails to show.

If you want to add it to the existing dynamic 'Genres' filter, then you have to manually edit the Movie Details on every movie and add |Martial Arts| to the 'genre' field on all the movies you want to add.

Since that is a lot of work, the other way would be to convert the dynamic 'Genres' filter to a static one, and then add your own sub genre to that branch that covers your martial arts movies. But then every movie you add that happens to have a new Genre, will not have a dynamic genre created auto, so you are stuck having to add new genre filters then.

The solution I use is to add a new main menu item "Custom Genres" (I put mine under "Custom Collections"), in which you put the filters you make yourself, in your case one for the 'martial arts'. Then the dynamic genre system will remain functional and you can add as many custom filters to that custom menu as you want. For example this is where I put my "James Bond" and other sets as well.

PS: As for your category image to show, just make sure the filename on the category image you add is in the same folder as all the others, and has the exact same name as what is shown inside Moving Pictures. So "Martial Arts.png" for "Martial Arts".

[Ramjet99]

Hmmm, same thing happened - created a Custom node and added some test filters underneath. Listed all the movies I'd expect to see so exited out adn ran up MP. No additional custom cat showing. Went back into conf and they're gone from there too.

Something odd going on.

Mving pictures conf takles a LONG time to open and also delays the opening of the applciation (loading Windows plugin) so possibly all are related.

[Ramjet99]

Upgraded Moving Pictures to latest version (and ran conf as admin) but still getting same result. Additional categories and filters appear to work until conf is exited. Re-entering conf shows they're gone.

What's the relevant file that holds this info - it maybe a permissions issue - or is it contained within the database itself?

[altytesty]

Originally Posted by Ramjet99

Hi, Can anyone point to a tutorial on establishing new genres and then linking that genre to a caregory graphic? I thoguht I had it nailed but my 'martial Arts' genre fails to show.

As you request :-D
STICKY - Tutorial - How to add new Genres including Categories images Moving Pictures

[SilentExcept]

is it possible to have two genres under genres menu item? for example i want to create comedy/romance but UNDER default Genres menu item (not as new item, that i know it is possible and how to do it)..

for the time being i have found two ways to "fix" this:
1. use categories then filtering (categories for comedy genre, filter for romance genre)
2. better solution, custom genre.. i've written a program that will execute a simple sql statement on movingpictures database and insert custom combined genres.

update movie_info set genres=genres||'Comedy/Romance|' where genres like  '%|Romance|%' and genres like '%|Comedy|%' and genres not like '%|Comedy/Romance|%'

[altytesty]

Originally Posted by SilentExcept

is it possible to have two genres under genres menu item? for example i want to create comedy/romance but UNDER default Genres menu item (not as new item, that i know it is possible and how to do it)..

for the time being i have found two ways to "fix" this:
1. use categories then filtering (categories for comedy genre, filter for romance genre)
2. better solution, custom genre.. i've written a program that will execute a simple sql statement on movingpictures database and insert custom combined genres.

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I'm not sure how all of the database parts work together, looked at it for a bit...

What SilentExcept shows for sql may work, but it's a "linear" edit that affects each entry
within the "movie_info", much like my tutorial,
I believe the ideal way would be to
1) Create a "New Genre"
2) Be able to add filters to the new Genre (that way the movie info is NOT altered)

eJ:
Create "Comedy/Romance" Genre
Create filter that points all genres CONTAINING romance
and all genres CONTAINING comedy to go in the Comedy/Romance category

...

If you look at the "node" table, you'll see that each Genre appears 2 times, once with a parent column value of 2, and another time with a parent value of 18


anyway, ill look for a place to suggest our desire so we can all put a star

[Ramjet99]

Thanks for the advice but what I'm finding is that I can create nodes fine, but when I exit Config and go back in again, the node has disappeared and I'm back with the default nodes. Might try a reinstall.

[Ramjet99]

Yep, started with a reinstall and a new database and can now add custom categories no problem. If anyone else in the same boat, make sure to get the MP-artwork and Info copier first to dump data out to the folders and then do a custom reimport using XBMC scrapper.

[altytesty]

fyi, your original question is still open, because it doesn't exist in the interface we gotta open an official FEATURE REQUEST thanks for the heads up and good to hear you're back up