First of all I have additional artist columns displayed set up as
Artist 1 Value $meta(artist,0)
Field %artist%
Artist 2 Value $meta(artist,1)
Field %artist%
Artist 3 Value $meta(artist,2)
Field %artist%
Artist 4 Value $meta(artist,3)
Field %artist%
So I can see multiple artist as seperate columns.
If I click direclty into Artist 1 column to do an edit and press return, the artist 2 entry is deleted.
This didnt use to happen.
Cheers
To me it looks as though you write the whole artist field when you edit any of the columns - you do not address one of the artist multi-value fields.
I would have assumed that you had to use the same expression for field as for value, but I am not even sure that that would work.
I'm sure it used to work - what happened occasionally was that the separates needed updating so in artist 1 it would read "Bob//Harry//Jim" all together. What you could do is click in the artist 1 field, press return and they would separate out it the correct columns, but now they get deleted.
It has to be "Bob\\Harry\\Jim" for a multivaluue-field.
I doubt it has.
If you read the help on the various $meta-functions, then you will notice that this function only returns a value but never sets one.
| $meta(x) | returns all values of field x (e.g. $meta(artist)). Multiple values of a field are separated by ", ". |
|---|---|
| $meta(x,n) | returns the nth value of field x (where n starts at 0, e.g. $meta(artist,1)). |
| $meta_sep(x,sep) | returns all values of field x (e.g. $meta_sep(artist,; )). Multiple values of a field are separated by sep. |
If you want to treat a multi-value field, you either have to use the extended tags dialogue or first merge duplicate fields
and then split them again.