Guide Search Messed Up when Titles have Colons (:)

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Guide Search Messed Up when Titles have Colons (:)

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Post by V1de0Lovr » Sat Feb 18, 2017 5:33 pm

Not sure if this is a problem with Schedules Direct guide data or possibly with the way that EPG123 is loading it, but I don't get accurate search results if there are programs with a colon (:) in the title. A guide search for Planet Earth only shows "Planet Earth: Africa" and other titles that have colons in them, NOT Planet Earth II which airs tonight on BBC America. Likewise a search for The Blacklist only shows the new spin-off "The Blacklist: Redemption" and NOT the original show that airs a new episode next Thursday.

I had this problem with 1.0.2 and upgraded to 1.1.0 today to see if that might fix it, but still have the issue. The same search works fine on my other PC which still uses the Rovi guide, so Rovi data and Windows Media Center itself seem to work fine.

Even stranger, searching for "Signed, Sealed, Delivered" only shows 3 old episodes which have colons, not the new episode also having a colon titled ""Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Higher Ground." So it only finds some of the titles that do contain colons!

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Post by garyan2 » Sat Feb 18, 2017 7:12 pm

Haven't heard of this problem so didn't know it needed to be fixed. That being said, I couldn't recreate it ... searches work fine for me. It's possible your reindex task has not completed. Do you have windows search disabled?
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Post by V1de0Lovr » Sat Feb 18, 2017 8:30 pm

Thanks, you're question led me to a resolution. I checked Indexing Options and Windows Media Center is listed as a location, so I clicked the Advanced button, and then the Rebuild button to Delete and rebuild index. After rebuilding, search now works as expected.

Totally unrelated, but I noticed a minor issue with the Client application after upgrading to 1.1.0. On my media center PCs I use the display option to make text bigger, at Medium 125%. The Client application had buttons cut off until I set text back to Smaller 100%. Otherwise its looking good for me now.

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Post by garyan2 » Tue Feb 21, 2017 4:38 am

V1de0Lovr wrote:Totally unrelated, but I noticed a minor issue with the Client application after upgrading to 1.1.0. On my media center PCs I use the display option to make text bigger, at Medium 125%. The Client application had buttons cut off until I set text back to Smaller 100%. Otherwise its looking good for me now.
Thanks for pointing this out. I had expected everything to resize as needed ... evidently split containers don't do that. Took care of it in code, so will be fixed in next release.
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