Finding "DIM/Manual only" available content (i.e. only non-connect ones)
Sensual Art
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I am trying out the Daz connect as the primary method of installing content. But there are lot of content (such as vid tutorials, textures, merchant resources) that are not available through connect. They are not even listed in Products section of DS but available through DIM or Customer files section. So the question is how do I filter only those content either through DIM or customer file section so that I can install them through DIM or manually?
Note that DIM does not recognize connect installed files so almost all my content is showing as uninstalled in DIM.
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I have already tried the filters "Not Connect Available" and "Not Connect Installed" in DIM but both these filters show items such as the 50's Diner which is actually available through connect.
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In the Ready to Download tab click Install Filters and uncheck Connect Installed and Connect Available. Note, however, that this will not hide things that have already been downloaded (or installed) via DIM.
I am assuming you mean Download Filters button on that tab because only the Download Filters popup (Settings) had those checkboxes. Even after unchecking Connect Available and Connect Installed in that Settings popup I was able to see several items which could also be installed through Connect (which I verified in the Products section of DS). My goal is to avoid listing any item that can be installed through connect, as connect is my primary installation method and it would cause duplicate installation of that item.
I even tried applying those "Not Connect Available" and "Not Connect Installed" filters after unchecking Connect Installed and Connect Available in Settings popup, but was still able to see some of those items which could be installed through connect.
I also tried searching the advanced filtering documentation but could not find anything on connect being a selector. Only if I could find something like "connect::false" just like "dim::false" it would have given me exactly what I wanted.
Finally, I tried a programmatic brute force method of getting the list of all items that I have access to and then checking if they had a .SEP file associated with them. This was done by initiating a HEAD request for the programmatically generated SEP file URL (based on SKU) instead of the usual GET request as I was interested in only getting the response code (not the actual content). Anything other than HTTP 200 would mean that the .SEP file was missing which meant that the item was not installable through Connect. This got me a long way in. Now I just have to filter out a few entries (mostly bundles) that neither have DIM nor Connect installable listed.
P.S.: I am surprised that the .SEA links I generated programmatically returned HTTP 200 even for those items which are not available through connect.
If you have a list of Connect available items thata re not tagged as such in DIM please send it to Daz.
Richard, at this point, I am not sure how DIM interprets the "unchecking" of the Connect Available and Connect Installed options. Does it expect these two parameters to be "false" (which I want) OR does DIM ignore these two parameters while filtering the results (as in case of other parameters where the filtered set is calculated based on "union" of checked options). As far as I understand, based on either of these two interpretations the results can vary. I observe the later being the case when DIM includes connect available items even when Connect Available and Connect Installed are unchecked since those items are satisfying other criteria which are checked. In fact, the presence of the aforementioned 50's Diner in the list (even while Connect Available and Connect Installed are unchecked) corroborates this observation.
I believe, the interpretation of the Connect Available and Connect Installed as "false" is done by the additionally installed DIM filters ("Not Connect Available" and "Not Connect Installed") which uses the regular expressions to further filter the results. Perhaps my unfamiliarity with the regex syntax used here is preventing me from using them to my advantage.
In any case, I think my little program retrieved exactly what I was looking for - items that are NOT available for installation through Connect, though it took it around half-an-hour to run through my entire list of items.
Products that require a manual install don't show up in DIM or DAZ Connect.
You can filter out those products by going to your Product Library and enter dim::no in the Filter: box.
If Connect Installed is unchecked you will not see any downloads for items that have been installed with connect, if Connect Available is unchecked you will not see any downloads for items that can be isntalled with connect. However, on Genesis and Genesis 2 items, among others, you would still see the PoserCF packages. Similarly, a product witha video guide will still have a DIM download for that even if the content zip(s) are hidden.
Here's my DIM screenshot with Connect Available and Connect Installed unchecked. Notice the items which I have highlighted; they all can be installed through Connect. This is only the first few items, I am sure there a ton others if I scroll further down.
My goal is to avoid these items to show up (as they are already visible through Connect) so as to avoid any scope of duplicate installation.
The best way to avoid them would be to send a list to Daz, then they can hopefully correct the tags (though if you actually isntall them through Connect they should go, since that is presumably based on the local CMS rather than a tag).