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Laraman:
If the facility to make a film not visible is no longer avaliable then why is there an advanced filter to show visible or not visible films. I for one would like this reinstated if it has been removed. Thanks

Laraman:
Ive just read the section on delete and undelete in the manual and so I tested to see if it would give me the same functionality that was present in 0.9.9.5 and I found that sure it does make the film not visible, but if you then try to undelete it comes back but with stuff missing i.e. the poster is missing. So you cannot achieve the same result as you could in 0.9.9.5

nostra:
I was not aware that someone using using record visibility like this. I think I can make a "Hide record" function pretty easily.

Laraman:
Thats Magic Nostra, can't wait to get the functionality back. Thanks   ;D

rick.ca:
Now I'm curious about what this Aways Show feature is/was. :-\

What has been described sounds like a filter to me. I use the Loan filter to hide movies I don't what to see on a regular basis (e.g., for some movies series, I want a record for each movie in the series, but I don't want to see the bad ones unless I'm interested in seeing information about whole series). The same thing could be done by Bookmarking, but then this wouldn't be available for other uses.

There are three different ways this could be implemented as a filter:

1. Exactly like bookmarking. It would just have to have a different name, like Flagging. The Flag filter would show only or hide all flagged records, or be off.

2. Rather than be a filter itself, it could be a means to override the affect of other filters. In other words, tagging a record with Always show would result in it showing even if hidden by other filters. Always hide, of course, would work as expected (serving Laraman's purpose). This setting would have to be unaffected by Reset filters.

3. My preferred option: Both 1 and 2. ;)

None of this has anything to do with invisible records—only visible ones are affected.

BTW, if any new filters are added, it will become really obvious we need some way to save and recall filter settings. Ironically, I have programmed my remote to do this (e.g., so I can switch between "unseen movies available for viewing" and "unseen episodes available for viewing"), but there is no way to do this in the program. Perhaps this could be implemented by having a Save settings command on the filter menu. This would save the current settings and prompt for a name (e.g. "unseen available movies"). This would then appear on the menu (or perhaps a submenu, along with Reset filters). Or, it might be preferable just to provide for the configuration of such a "filter preset" submenu in Preferences (since there would have to be a way to delete, edit and rearrange the menu items anyway).

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