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Smart Content Library Primary Category

gepetersiiigepetersiii Posts: 86
in Daz Studio Discussion

I recently reloaded the metadata for my library. After doing so, there was a change to the Smart Content Library on the left-hand side. It added a category, the 'Default' and then 'XXX'.
Unfortunately, it sorted some items into the second category which I need to correct. But it got me thinking. What is it and what purpose could it serve?

Instead of having multiple libraries I could just group certain items into other primary labels. This is new to me and I don't know much about it or how to use it yet. I am hoping someone will have a good reference for it that would teach me how to use it.

I appreciate any help you could offer or suggestions on how you use it personally.

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  • NorthOf45NorthOf45 Posts: 5,482

    What you are seeing is a Custom Category that you probably created. I have all the products visible in that screen shot, and none of them come with an XXX category. All products with metadata categorize every asset (usually) with a Default Category of some kind. (Sometimes a few miss the Default part, and many get none, which default to Lost and Found). You can create as many top-level categories as you want, and include references to anything from any content library folder you want, as many times as you want. You can copy and move custom categories around all you want without disturbing the underlying folder structure. Any assets without metadata can still be categorized from the Content Library (which would also remove them from Lost and Found).

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,773

    It mnay also have been added by something from oen of the adult stores that came with metadata

  • gepetersiiigepetersiii Posts: 86

    What is confusing me about this is that those are Daz items installed using DIM. After I ran the metadata options, they were moved to that category.

    As far as I can remember, I did not create an XXX category. I use a separate library for third-party content. The exception to that rule is I installed some items I purchased last week into the wrong directory. I rectified that issue. But even in my third-party library, I do not use XXX as a label.

    Why would Daz content show up under that category?

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,773
    edited July 2023

    Well, my copies of seveal of those products are not in that category.

    Post edited by Richard Haseltine on
  • gepetersiiigepetersiii Posts: 86

    Well, shoot. To make matters even less clear and understandable, I loaded Daz Studio today and CMS would not start. I quit and restarted and everything works again. But now, all those files that were in the 'XXX' category are no longer there. They are in the default.

    This backs up my suspicions that something strange and unknown happens every time I load Daz Studio.

  • NorthOf45NorthOf45 Posts: 5,482

    A product can have assets in more than one category. When using Smart Content with something selected in the Scene, if Filter by Context is checked, it will show any and all products that have any compatible assets, as defined in the metadata. With Filter by Context unchecked, it will display virtually everything. So, yes, it can look different every time, depending on what is selected in the scene, if anything, and contextual filtering active.

  • ShelLuserShelLuser Posts: 749

    When in doubt just check things out using the content library pane, check the Categories section.

    You can even use this method to fix all this and either move or remove those other category entries.

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