<CustomTag>.displayFormat

[Gdg]

Hi,
I have a custom tag "BoxSet" and I'll like to custom display like this:
<my boxset name> • <genre>
e.g.
"Charles Mingus - Original albums • Jazz"

I tried with a tagFormat:
BoxSet.displayFormat={$BoxSet$Genre^^^ • }

when I try and save the config I got the error:
Incorrect option name 'display' in property 'tagFormat'

What is the correct way of doin' it?

Thanks a lot.

Giovanni, from Italy

[simoncn]

Are you sure you entered 'displayFormat' and not 'display' or 'display Format'?

[Gdg]

well... the error msg I reported was from one of the many attemps I did, sorry for that.

Anyway I checked again, right now:
config copy & paste:
BoxSet.displayFormat={$BoxSet$Genre^^^ • }

error msg copy & paste:
Incorrect tag 'BoxSet' for option 'displayFormat' in property 'tagFormat'
-
Beside the tagFormat above, I only added "BoxSet" in the indexTags.
Sure I miss something else...

[simbun]

(02-01-2026 13:39)Gdg Wrote:  error msg copy & paste:
Incorrect tag 'BoxSet' for option 'displayFormat' in property 'tagFormat'

From the documentation:

Quote:The displayFormat option can be used with the following tag names:
Album
AlbumArtist
Artist
Comment
DiscSubtitle
Genre
Group
Label
Title
Rating
and any role tags specified in the upnpCustom property

The indexFormat option can be used with any tag names that appear in the indexTags property.

[simoncn]

You are getting this message because BoxSet is not one of the tag values that can be customized with the displayFormat option. For a list of the valid tags for this option, see the Tag formatting section of the User guide.

Where exactly do you want the customized BoxSet value to appear? If you want to see it in the BoxSet index, you can do this using indexFormat instead of displayFormat. However, you cannot use indexFormat to replace the value of an existing tag. This is explained in the Index tag formatting section of the User guide. You can work around this by using aliasTags to rename the BoxSet tags in your file to BoxSet2 when read by MinimServer, then use indexFormat with the BoxSet2 tag value, as follows:

aliasTags: BoxSet: BoxSet2
indexTags: BoxSet
itemTags: BoxSet2
tagFormat: BoxSet.indexFormat={$BoxSet2$Genre^^^ • }

[Gdg]

I want to see it in the main browsing list.
Thank you, Simon, that works, but... with a side affect.
All the albums without the BoxSet tag, are grouped under their "Genre" tag.
Just because a BoxSet tag is virtually generate, even for tracks that don't have it.
Is there a way to avoid this?
The requirement is:
If a track has the BoxSet tag, then append the Genre tag, else do nothing.
Thank you

[simoncn]

I don't think there is a way to do what you want. If I have any ideas for how it can be done, I will post back here.

[Gdg]

That's fine, Simon, thank you anyway.

[simoncn]

This has come up previously and I would like to find a solution. The tricky part is how to implement a solution for indexFormat without causing problems for displayFormat. I would like to keep the formatting specification and implementation the same for both of these, so any change to indexFormat has to make sense if used in displayFormat.