How to edit and translate genres and Categories?
Using Jamroom
pch:
Hi Brian,
Thanks for your reply. But it seems you didn't understand my question.
As I mentioned in my previous post, I would like:
1) To modify (edit) an existing genre, not to enter a new one. e.g. When uploading a audio file, I created a genre called "Song". Later, I would like to edit and rename the same genre to "Music".
Yep - I understood you - how I outlined it is how it works. It's important to understand that genres don't live on their own - they are part of the data for a song. So to CHANGE a genre, just enter the new genre you want that song to use and it will be changed. There's no "editing" of genres.
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2) To create a set (list) of genres/categorie at once, ready for the next use, instead of creating them one by one when uploading new audio files. Now the problem is when trying to create a list of genres using the Form Designer, the first genre I created earlier when uploading my previous audio file, is not there. So, how to create a list of genre using form designer that will include/incorporate the existing genre?
You would just to make sure the existing genres are present in the OPTIONS for the select and text field (directions on doing that are in the HELP drop down for the options field in the form designer).
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Also thanks for your reply confirming that there is no multi-lingual support for genres or categories.
Here is a scenario:
We have one audio meeting recording (in english), the same meeting file was translated/interpreted later to Spanish and many other languages.
In JR, we added the English version of this file into a genre called "meeting". We would like to add the Spanish version of the very same meeting recording. Should we create a new genre/category called: "reunión" (which the word "meeting in spanish")?
Please give me your opinion, a good approach of handling this scenario.
Thanks
Yeah I think you could do it that way - the key here is understanding that the genre for an audio item is another piece of data on the audio item (just like the title, length, etc) - it does not live separately from the audio item, so if you need different genres they will need to be entered as options in the form designer (if you want them to pre-exist for users to select from).
Let me know if that helps.
