The Category Changer window offers drag and drop Song Category changes. You can display three or more lists of Songs selected by Category. Any Song can be dragged from its original Category pane to any other Category pane, and by so doing be assigned to that Category.
You can also display all Inactive Songs in an Inactive Song list, and reactivate these Songs by dragging them to a Category.
Click the Library tab, then click the Category Changer tab.
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Show History Pane/Hide History Pane
The Category Changer window opens displaying the first three Categories sorted by Short Category name (see the notes on short and long Category names). To show more or less Category windows, select the number to display in the Category Windows field. Each additional Category pane will squeeze up to accommodate the new Category numbers. The minimum number of panes is 2.
Show History Pane/Hide History Pane
The menu bar is used to undo, redo, and save changes. When the Category Changer is opened, the buttons are inactive. Moving a Song will activate the undo and save buttons. Undoing a change activates the redo button.
Check the Inactive box to display a further window showing all inactive Songs.
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The Browse Formats button can be used to save the default format as a new format, save changes to an existing format, save an existing format to a new browse format, set a selected format as the assigned format for the window or temporarily assigned just for the session. Formats can also be permanently assigned to the Browse window in the Browse Formats Assignment window. Browse Formats can be designed in the Browse Formats Design window.
For more information on custom designing formats, see the Formats Design and Formats Assignment topics.
TIP: Press F7 to toggle pane open or closed for the selected Category window.
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Click this button to open the History pane for the selected songs. This history map works similarly to the History Map in the Editor. |
TIP: Press F7 to toggle pane open or closed for the selected Category window.
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Click this button to close the history pane. |
Click this button to select an attribute to display in the History Pane when a Song is selected in the results pane. The display options are:
The Song selected in the results pane.
The Title of the Song selected in the results pane.
The Packet of the Song selected in the results pane. If the current Song is not in a packet, GSelector displays the history of the Song.
The Artist or Vocalist for the Song selected in the results pane. See the notes on viewing Vocalist History in the Editor History Pane topic.
The Album for the Song selected in the results pane.
The Song Group of the Song selected in the results pane. If the current Song is not in a Song Group, GSelector displays the history of the Song.
Pressing the CTRL+F will open the Find option allowing the user to do a "Smart Filter" find. The Finder will search for results as they are typed. To open the Find option click the pane to search and press the CTRL+F keys on the keyboard.
CTRL+F - Invokes the Find Panel.
ESC - Clears the search box. If the search box is empty, pressing ESC closes the Find Panel.
DOWN ARROW - Moves focus from the Find Panel to the grid's data area.
The Categories are displayed in panes in the main body of the window. The number of panes is set in the Category Windows. You can size and sort the content of all panes at once by clicking on any Category pane header bar. The currently highlighted song position and total number of songs in the Category are shown at the bottom of each pane.
At the top of each pane is a drop down box. Click the drop-down arrow to open a list of Categories. Select a Category from the list and enter to display the contents of that Category in that pane.
NOTE: A Category can only be selected once. A selected Category cannot be selected again for another Category pane.
Check the Inactive checkbox to open this window at the right of the Category Changer window. See the displaying Inactives notes for more information in using this pane.
To display Songs in this pane, click the drop-down arrow and select or enter the name of a saved Inactives Filter or saved Inactives Song list. See the working with filters notes in the Filter and List topic. The pane can be 'pinned' by clicking the Pin icon. This means that it will remain easily accessible. The pane collapses to a vertical tab button at the right of the Category Changer pane. It can be partially opened again by clicking this tab, and fully reopened by clicking the Pin icon again. To close the pane, click the close icon at top right.
Selecting Categories
Displaying more Categories
Displaying and activating Inactive Songs
Moving Songs from Category to Category
Moving Song Groups from Category to Category
Sorting and Formatting
Jumping to the Song window
Customizing formats in the Browse Pane: see also the notes on Assigning and Designing Browse Formats.
Working with Child stations
NOTE: GSelector will remember what Categories were selected in the previous editing session in this window.
Note: When the category of a song/link is changed, daypart bans will be preserved but the daypart shifts resets to 0. Given that the daypart shifts are relative to the category, they need to be reset when the category changes.
Special provisions govern moving Songs in Song Groups . Because Song Groups can contain songs in multiple categories, they will only be displayed together in any Category pane if they are in the same Category, and the only way to know if the Song is in a Group at all is if you use a browse format which includes the Song Group field. When you drag a Song in the Group to another Category, you will move that Song in the usual way, whether the Song is in a Group or not. But if the Song Group has a shared Category Attribute, all the Songs display in the same Category pane, and dragging one Song take all the other songs with it to the new Category. See the Song Groups topic for full details.
Keyboard Shortcuts can also be used to initiate the play of a single audio event or a list of audio events. Ctrl+F11 will play a single element. In a list, it will play the element having focus. Alt+F11 will play elements in a list consecutively. In a list, Alt+F11 will play the element having focus. When that element finishes playing, the next element lower in the list will play. This process will continue until the bottom of the list is reached. In a non-list context, such as in the song editing window, Ctrl+F11 and Alt+F11 will play only the current element. See the Using Audio in GSelector topic for more information on playing audio.
As with all Browses, the columns in each Category pane can be sized and sorted. For full details, see the notes in the Working with Browses topic. GSelector will remember the sorts and column sizes applied in each pane from the previous editing session.
You can design one or more custom browse formats to apply to all Active Category panes, by working in the Browse Formats Design window. Once you have designed one or more new formats, you can assign a default format to use in this window in the Browse Formats Assignment window. You can use any field in the Song window or Additional Information window in the format.
In the Category Changer window in a Child Station, you cannot drag a Song from an inherited Category to another Category, nor can you change its Active status. You can change the Category of a Song in a copied Category, or in a Category that you have created in the Child Station, as long as the target Category is not Inherited.
