CMP question about Main List.

[Robert2d6]

I should probably be able to figure this out myself, but can't seem to. When I download a new route, and search for missing dependencies, and find some, I highlight them and it gives me the option of showing them in the "main list", where I then can select download to download them. My problem is my main lists has now hundreds and hundreds of files, so I have to keep scrolling up and down to find that kuids that I need to download. How can I clear the main list of items that I have already downloaded?

 

[shaneturner12]

'View in Main List' basically conducts a search for the specific asset KUIDS that were shown/selected (depends on where you click the option)

If you add Location: Download Station to the search, it will show you the ones you need to download.

Shane

 

[Robert2d6]

'View in Main List' basically conducts a search for the specific asset KUIDS that were shown/selected (depends on where you click the option)

If you add Location: Download Station to the search, it will show you the ones you need to download.

Shane

Still not working, I will describe what I am doing, so maybe you can tell me where I am going wrong. I download a route. It shows that I am missing dependencies, so I select "View Dependencies". Now it shows a list in a small box and I see it shows some dependencies that have the Red DS. I click that item , and it gives me the option ( and that is the only option) to show in the main list. It adds that kuid to the main list , which already has around 1300 items in it, 98% of which are already downloaded. Now if I select, location-download station in the search box , now I have 209,000 items in the list. Is there anyway, that in the list that I see when I select "view in main list", I can see just the items that I need to download? I know I am doing something wrong, but can't for the life of me figure out what.

 

[shaneturner12]

Indeed. I will also add the info to my CMP Tips and Tricks thread if I haven't already.

Shane

 

[fran1]

The simpler option is r/click on the route in cm and select download. It should then pull in all assets available. (or the ones it missed first time).

 

[sniper297]

I can't count how many times I scrolled up and down before I figured out I could click the plus sign and add more filters to a dependencies list, and you can also save the filter either temporarily or permanently. After many reskins and updates I clicked the "My Content" tab, then the plus sign to add "Obsolete False" and "Out of Date False", then saved that as "My real stuff" so I wouldn't have all the old crap cluttering the list. Add category routes and save as my routes, change to category locomotives and save as my choochoos, spend time now learning content mangler and it saves a lot of time in the long run.

 

[Robert2d6]

The simpler option is r/click on the route in cm and select download. It should then pull in all assets available. (or the ones it missed first time).

I can't believe that for 6 months I have been apparently doing this the hard way, of looking though the missing dependencies one at a time, selecting them, show in main list, and then going though them in the main list selecting them again one at a time to download, when all I had to do was do what you suggested......... :'(

Thanks for the tip. It will save me hours of mouse clicking!!!!!!

 

[Robert2d6]

I can't count how many times I scrolled up and down before I figured out I could click the plus sign and add more filters to a dependencies list, and you can also save the filter either temporarily or permanently. After many reskins and updates I clicked the "My Content" tab, then the plus sign to add "Obsolete False" and "Out of Date False", then saved that as "My real stuff" so I wouldn't have all the old crap cluttering the list. Add category routes and save as my routes, change to category locomotives and save as my choochoos, spend time now learning content mangler and it saves a lot of time in the long run.

I wish for the basic functions, there was a tutorial on the CMP. I have seen some stuff which helps, but for some of the other basic functions, it is still a mystery to me.

 

[shaneturner12]

Actually, I have several guides on my tutorial website and my blog on how to use certain CMP features (as well as a thread in DLS,FCT). If the info you want is not there, let me know.

Shane

EDIT: I have added a link to my main Content Manager guides that are based on my tutorial website to the thread in my signature - look for Content Manager Guides.

 

[Robert2d6]

Actually, I have several guides on my tutorial website and my blog on how to use certain CMP features (as well as a thread in DLS,FCT). If the info you want is not there, let me know.

Shane

EDIT: I have added a link to my main Content Manager guides that are based on my tutorial website to the thread in my signature - look for Content Manager Guides.

Will look at that, thanks.

 

[shaneturner12]

No problem - CM is one of my main areas of expertise.

Shane

 

[Robert2d6]

No problem - CM is one of my main areas of expertise.

Shane

And one of life's challenges for me.....

 

[Dinorius_Redundicus]

That procedure only gets you the dependencies available from the DLS. There is also the Unknown (?) assets to consider. They are the ones that may be on some non-DLS, 3rd-party website, hidden in some creator's private collection, or which never existed in the first place because the creators started their kuid sequence with a kuid2: number at version :1

For those marked with a ? you can select them in the list, right-click and copy them to the clipboard, then paste that list into Notepad. Get ready for the long manual hunt for missing assets on the Web.

Also be aware that the first scan for dependencies only gets you to the first and maybe second level (i.e. dependencies of dependencies). If you find and install all those, then scan all those assets again, you will pick up a third level. And so forth. Eventually the scans should produce a constant number of dependencies and that's when you know you really have everything.

I've just done this for a map with about 1200 inital dependencies and found I had to go down 6 or 7 levels before the list stabilized!

~ Dino

BTW, why do people insist on calling it CMP? That name went out with TRS2006. It's now just Content Manager, CM (or Content Mangler which is even better). :hehe:



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