Searching, Filtering, Sorting
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You can search for certain items in the list. To do that, specify the filters, and press Find next or Find previous. The found items are colored light purple, and the currently selected found item is colored a slightly darker shade of purple. Here's how it looks:
When the search is activated, the list of all found items will appear in the search panel, and you can click on them to jump to those items. To stop searching, click on the Stop searching button. Afterwards, if you click on the Find next or Find previous button again, the search will start from the top or bottom respectively. If you want to stop searching and clear the filters, then click on the Clear search button.
You can't search franchises - only movies or series.
Here's the list of all possible search filters:
Title - searches by title (if an item has multiple titles, they are all considered):
Title is - searches for items whose title contains the specified input
Title starts with - searches for items whose title starts with the specified input
Title ends with - searches for items whose title ends with the specified input
Year - searches by year:
Year is - searches for items of the specified year
Year less than - searches for items before the specified year
Year greater than - searches for items after the specified year
Year between - searches for items between the specified years (inclusive)
Kind is - searches for items of the specified kind
Tags - searches by tags:
Tags include - searches for items which have all of the specified tags
Tags exclude - searches for items which have none of the specified tags
Tags have category - searches for items which have any tags of the specified category
Standalone - searches for items which don't belong to a franchise
Movies only - searches only for movies
Watched (movies only) - searches for movies which are watched
Released (movies only) - searches for movies which are released
Series only - searches only for series
Watch status is (series only) - searches for series which have the specified watch status
Release status is (series only) - searches for series which have the specified release status
Channel (series only) - searches for series which have the specified channel:
Channel is - searches for series whose channel name equals the specified input
Channel starts with - searches for series whose channel name starts with the specified input
Channel ends with - searches for series whose channel name ends with the specified input
Number of seasons (series only) - searches for series by the number of seasons:
Number of seasons is - searches for series which have the specified number of seasons
Number of seasons less than - searches for series which have less seasons than the specified number
Number of seasons greater than - searches for series which have more seasons than the specified number
Number of seasons between - searches for series whose number of seasons is between the specified numbers (inclusive)
Number of episodes (series only) - searches for series by the number of episodes:
Number of episodes is - searches for series which have the specified number of episodes
Number of episodes less than - searches for series which have less episodes than the specified number
Number of episodes greater than - searches for series which have more episodes than the specified number
Number of episodes between - searches for series whose number of episodes is between the specified numbers (inclusive)
Miniseries (series only) - searches for miniseries
You can negate the filters by checking the negate check-box. Remember that it can mean a different thing than what you think. For example, if you negate the Watched (movies only) filter, it will search for series as well, because it will search for all items which don't satisfy the Watched (movies only) filter, and that includes series. When a filter is negated, a red strip is added on the left side.
The search filters can be composed in several ways. If you click on the right-side three-dot menu, the following options will appear:
Make composite (and)
Make composite (or)
Remove filter
If you make the filter composite, then three buttons will appear:
Add filter (the plus button)
Change the filter composition (the cog button)
Simplify (the arrows button)
If a composite filter contains only one filter, you can make it a simple filter again by pressing the simplify button. You can add filters to the composite filter by pressing the add filter button.
The nature of the composite filter depends on the composition type of which there are two: and and or. If the composition is and then all filters must be positive for the composite filter to be positive. If the composition is or then at least one filter must be positive for the composite filter to be positive. The and composition is shown with a green strip on the left side, and the or composition is shown with a blue strip on the left side. You can change the filter's composition by clicking the change composition button.
Here's an example: in order to search for non-watched movies, you should compose two filters: the negated Watched (movies only) and Movies only, and set the composition to and because both filters must be positive.
If you want to remove a filter, then you can click on the remove filter in the three-dot menu.
You can create complex hierarchies of filters with multiple layers and different composition types.
Filtering is very similar to searching. As you saw previously, when searching for items you already use various kinds of filters. Filtering the list uses the same principles, but has one big difference - it doesn't highlight the found items. Instead, it shows only the found items. All other items are removed from the list completely. Here's how it looks:
You can't filter franchises - only movies or series. A franchise appears in the filtered list only if one or more of its entries appear in the filtered list.
When you have specified the filters, you can click on the Apply filter button to apply them. Afterwards, you can click on the Clear filter button to return back to the full list.
You can combine searching and filtering, for example by filtering by some general conditions, and then searching with more specific conditions in the filtered list.
You can specify how the list is sorted. There are a couple options, but they are limited. Here's how the sorting panel looks:
Here are the possible sorting orders:
By title
By original title
By title (simple)
By original title (simple)
By year
Sorting by title takes franchises into account, while simple sorting by title doesn't. You can specify the sorting direction as well - ascending or descending.
There are two levels of sorting. The second level is used when the first level is the same (like having the same title). You can't add more levels since two levels is enough.
By default the first level of sorting is by title, and the second level is by year. The defaults can be changed in the file's settings, and the default settings for new files can be changed in the preferences.
Sorting by title is available only as the first level, because it's complex and it doesn't make sense to make it second-level. Thus only the three last options are available for the second-level sorting.
