Questions about tag formatting limitations

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(20-04-2025 22:57)simoncn Wrote:  I am investigating a possible fix for this issue with groups and indexFormat. Instead of having Work.indexFormat produce a single merged Work value for the group, it could apply Work.indexFormat to each item in the group and add all these formatted values to the group. In your example, the group groupW would have these tags:

WORK=work1 [Rating1]
WORK=work2 [Rating2]
WORK=work3 [Rating3]

This would give you the Work index entries that you want. Selecting any of these Work index entries would show the group, not the individual item, maintaining the principle that items within a group cannnot be accessed directly from outside the group.

Back after some holidays far from internet and minimServer...
good news, thanks a lot !

I still need some explanation about displayFormat with groups.

I ripped a CD Bach by Angela Hewitt, which contains:

• 1) Fantasia in C minor (1 track)
• 2) Two-Part Inventions (15 tracks)
• 3) Three-Part Inventions (15 tracks)
• 4) Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D minor (2 tracks)
  

Tagging :

• each Fantasia and Invention has a WORK tag
• each Invention track has a GROUP tag "Inventions à deux/trois voix"
• each Invention track has a WORK_SET tag "Inventions à deux voix (15)"
• each Invention track has a WORK_SET tag "Inventions à trois voix (15)"
• each Fantasia track has a WORK_RATING tag ♪♪♪♪
• 3 two-part Inventions have a different WORK_RATING tag (***, ****, *****)
  

MinimServer settings:

• indexTag : Work
• itemTag : Work_Set, Work_Rating
• tagValue : Group.Default={Work}, Work.merge={Work_Set, Overall_Work}
• tagFormat : Group.displayFormat={$composer^^ : $Overall_Work$Group^$Work_Rating^----------[^]}
  

What is displayed in album view:

• 1) Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) : Fantasia en Ut m BWV 906 ♪♪♪♪----------[♪♪♪♪]
• 2) Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) : Inventions à deux voix----------[***, ****, *****]
• 3) Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) : Inventions à trois voix
• 4) Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) : Fantaisie chromatique et Fugue en Ré m BWV 903----------[♪♪♪♪]
  

for 4) : displayFormat merges the WORK_RATING tag values of the group (created by default), which are the sames, so the result is as expected
for 2) : displayFormat merges the WORK_RATING tag values of the group (explicitely created), which are not the sames, so the result is also as expected
for 1) : there is also a group (created by default), with only one track : i don't understand why i get " ♪♪♪♪" before the expected "----------[♪♪♪♪]"

Any idea ?