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Topic: How to link a button to a filter folder...

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I'm sure someone out here will have this same issue:

1. I do not like to waste my hard disk space with duplicate files
2. I have several themed shows that have music videos in common

I have a different folder for each show and made a button on my skin to select each folder in the browser. But this means that certain overlapping files need to be in two (or more) folders, thus creating duplicates.

The obvious solution would be to have all the music video files in the same folder and to create a filter folder selecting the appropiate genres for each theme night. The problem is that I work with a touch screen and selecting filter folders in the browser tree is difficult. I need to be able to select the filter folder from the skin, but the VDJscript command (browser_gotofolder) will not work with filter folders.

I have tried a workaround by creating a virtual folder (which is a static, unmonitored folder) and place inside of that virtual folder a filter folder. I then made a button to select the virtual folder (which is possible) and hoped to see the contents of the filter folder, but alas, that did not work...

Anyone have another workaround?
 
Posted Wed 22 Jan 14 @ 9:17 am
@ VDJ tech support: will it be possible in VDJ 8 to link a button to a filter folder?
 
I have never been able to make it work.. I asked djdad about a year ago to get it included in the new version as I think it would be a valuable addition.
 
Yes, I like the idea of (if you have folders you visit regularly) being able to assign 
goto_filterfolder "80s soul"
or 
goto_virtualfolder "Ken & Barbie wedding"
 
@ any moderator: will it be possible in VDJ 8 to link a button to a filter folder?

111 reads... There must be more DJs that want this feature?
 
isn't this what virtual folders are for?
 
You can link to virtual folders, but these are static, as I understand it, not dynamic. So that's like linking to a real folder.
What I need is the ability to link to a filter folder (one for each of my themed gigs) that updates with the newest songs from the genres that apply to that folder/gig...
 

Cant go direct to a filter folder (By name) , but you can map 2 buttons to scroll up and down ..

For down:
browser_window "folders" ? browser_scroll +1 : browser_window "folders"

For up:
browser_window "folders" ? browser_scroll -1 : browser_window "folders"
 
 
Thanks DJ IN NORWAY. That was very helpful!

Yes, of course. If you'd like, you can move this thread there, DJ DAD.

Thanks everyone for reponding.



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