Questions about tag formatting limitations

[eseb63]

I found a workaround for my previous problems with displayFormat (not available for the Work tag) and indexFormat with groups.

Instead of asking minimServer to format the Work tag with rating, i supply a formatted tag Work_Rated, which is Work tag suffixed with rating. Same for Overall_Work.

The work rating propagates from work to group, and from group to movement, if they don't have an explicit rating.

MinimServer settings:
indexTags : Work_Rated, Work_Rating
itemTags : Work_Set, Overall_Work, Overall_Work_Rated, Work, Group_Rating, Movement, Movement_Rating

tagValue : Group.Default={Work}, Overall_Work_Rated.Default={Overall_Work}, Work_Rated.Default={Work}, Work_Rated.merge={Work_Set, Overall_Work_Rated}, Group_Rating.Default={Work_Rating}, Movement_Rating.Default={Group_Rating}

tagFormat : Group.displayFormat={$composer_S^^ : $Overall_Work$Group^$Group_Rating^ [^]$Group_Art-Rating^ (^)}

It works fine, i can browse and see rating at different levels.

but i (again) have an issue if works are grouped.

with the same 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)"
Fantasia 1 has a WORK_RATING tag ♪♪♪
Fantasia 4 has a WORK_RATING tag ♪♪♪♪
3 two-part Inventions have a different WORK_RATING tag (♪♪♪, ♪♪♪♪, ♪♪♪♪♪)
each rated work has a WORK_RATED tag = Work + Work_Rating

I browse by Work_Rating and select for example a ♪♪♪♪ rating :

if i select the Hewitt album, i see the items as expected

• Chromatic Fantasia
• the Invention à deux voix group, as it contains a ♪♪♪♪ rating track
  

but if i select the Work_Rated index, i see

• Chromatic Fantasia as expected
• Inventions à deux voix (15) workset (though not having a rating)
• the exhaustive list of "inventions à deux voix", without having the group displayed, which is confusing and not conform to the principle you gave that items within a group cannot be accessed directly from outside the group ?