Cannot get indexFormat to do anything

[paultaylor]

I was trying to see if I could the Artists (note the s) index to give me more information, so I tried setting

Code:

Artists.indexFormat={$artists$artists_sort^^^:}

but it had no effect, why is that ?

I read

Quote:The indexFormat option doesn't replace any existing tags in the item. For example, the option
WorkByTitle.indexFormat={$title$tonality$opusnumber$subtitle}
would add a WorkByTitle tag if it doesn't exist in this item. No tag would be added if the item already has a WorkByTitle tag. This limitation doesn't apply to the Artist tag.

in the manual, is that saying the indexFormat only does anything if you dont have a value for the field you are using (Artists), is there a way round this ?

Out of interest I also tried

Code:

Artists.displayFormat={$artists$artists_sort^^^:}

but that failed giving error

Code:

MinimServer: conflicting option 'displayFormat' for tag 'Artists' in property 'tagFormat'

I couldn't work out exactly what the problem was.