Custom Categories

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It would be nice to add an extra system to add custom categories into MovPic. 
This would be seperate from the rename system. For now the main MovingPictures 
category name could be "IMDb+ Categories", but then later allow users to 'edit' 
this via the IMDb+ plugin.

The XML file that is used for this on the trunk, could use a syntax such as:

<imdbplus>
  <categories>
    <category>
      <name>Actors - Top 250</name>
      <description>This category will allow you to see all the movies a certain actor plays in. It only covers the top 250 actors according to a poll from the imdb.com website.</description>
      <filter>
        <name>John Doe</name>
        <match>all<match>
        <rule>
          <field>Actors</field>
          <compares>equals</compares>
          <to>John Doe</to>
        </rule>
      </filter>
      <filter>
        <name>Jane Doe</name>
        <match>all<match>
        <rule>
          <field>Actors</field>
          <compares>equals</compares>
          <to>Jane Doe</to>
        </rule>
      </filter>
    </category>
    <category>
      <name>Top 10 Sci-Fi Movies</name>
      <description>This category will show you the top 10 science-fiction movies defined by the American Film Institute.</description>
      <filter>
        <name>#1</name>
        <include>tt1234567</include>
      </filter>
      <filter>
        <name>#2</name>
        <include>tt1234567</include>
      </filter>
      <filter>
         ... (etc) ...
      </filter>
    </category>
  </categories>
</imdbplus>

The plugin can then have a new button in the hidden menu to allow a user to add 
one (or more) of the custom categories to their system. The multi-select dialog 
would be perfect for that with showing all the <name>...</name> values of each 
category entry.

Not sure if it is possible to also somehow be able to look at the description 
then before installing, or is the multi-select dialog capable of like detecting 
the info or context-menu button and pop up a notify dialog based on the 
selected item?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by RoChess....@gmail.com on 20 Oct 2011 at 10:57

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Can't really show the description of category in selection using multi-select 
dlg. Just try to make the items displayed in dialog self-explanatory. Would 
only be possible to display afterwards which would be silly.

Original comment by damien.haynes@gmail.com on 21 Dec 2011 at 6:21

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No problem, the idea is that the sub-categories titles will be 
self-explanatory. Can simply create a sub-thread on IMDb+ forum to talk about 
the lists and add a more eleborate description there.

Inside MePo the visual results the lists gives aside from descriptive title 
should be enough. It was more of support for down the road when there might be 
countless of community-created lists, to make it easier to select, but can 
always relook at things for that later. It's going to a simple fixed type of 
list at first anyway. Down the road we can look to see how a larger system can 
be best implemented, perhaps alike to how OnlineVideos handles it to select 
between all those sources it supports (or I'm sure there is some Trakt alike 
thing you already coded :).

Original comment by RoChess....@gmail.com on 21 Dec 2011 at 6:31

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Ok, so with descriptions not being used right now, is the following XML syntax 
the one to go with?

<imdbplus>
  <categories>
    <category>
      <name>Actors - Top 250</name>
      <filter>
        <name>John Doe</name>
        <match>all<match>
        <rule>
          <field>Actors</field>
          <compares>equals</compares>
          <to>John Doe</to>
        </rule>
      </filter>
      <filter>
        <name>Jane Doe</name>
        <match>all<match>
        <rule>
          <field>Actors</field>
          <compares>equals</compares>
          <to>Jane Doe</to>
        </rule>
      </filter>
    </category>
    <category>
      <name>Top 10 Sci-Fi Movies</name>
      <filter>
        <name>#1</name>
        <include>tt1234567</include>
      </filter>
      <filter>
        <name>#2</name>
        <include>tt1234567</include>
      </filter>
      <filter>
         ... (etc) ...
      </filter>
    </category>
  </categories>
</imdbplus>



Then I could start on making the very first one :)

Original comment by RoChess....@gmail.com on 21 Dec 2011 at 7:01

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<imdbplus>
  <categories>
    <category>
      <name>Actors - Top 250</name>
      <category>
        <name>John Doe</name>
        <filter>
          <match>all<match>
          <rule>
            <field>Actors</field>
            <operator>contains</operator>
            <value>John Doe</value>
          </rule>
        </filter>
      </category>
      <category>
        <name>Jane Smith</name>
        <filter>
          <match>all<match>
          <rule>
            <field>Actors</field>
            <operator>contains</operator>
            <value>Jane Smith</value>
          </rule>
        </filter>
      </category>
    </category>
    <category>
      <name>Top 10 Sci-Fi Movies</name>
      <category>
        <name>#1</name>
        <filter>
          <match>all<match>
          <rule>
            <include>tt0000001</include>
          </rule>
        </filter>
      </category>
      <category>
        <name>#2</name>
        <filter>
          <match>all<match>
          <rule>
            <include>tt0000002</include>
          </rule>
        </filter>
      </category>
    </category>
  </categories>
</imdbplus>

The <include> rules will need to be worked out in code and match upto a movie 
using the imdbid.

There will also need to be a way to refresh this manually or automatically to 
take into account new movies.

Original comment by damien.haynes@gmail.com on 22 Dec 2011 at 12:36

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Ok, made first attempt at initial list via: r256

Also got around the <include> rule problem, by looking at 'Full Path' for the 
inclusion of tt-ID. This can then later be modified easy when new MovPic issue 
gets implemented that allows for filter rules based on 'IMDb ID' as well as 
'SortBy'.

Am also considering an alternative that looks at for example 
Director+Writer+Actor+Year, which without looking at the title should result in 
a unique match as well. Will have to verify that on my own production system 
which has a large enough collection to see if filters like that would work.

Original comment by RoChess....@gmail.com on 31 Jan 2012 at 2:34