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[jeremyk]

I am trying to hide the episodic synopsis from the ListStyle flat-episodic-16x9. The docs refer to it as Paragraph Text (<paragraphtext>), but I don't see way of actually not showing it. Anyone have any ideas? It must be something simple I am missing.

Thanks!

[jbrave]

You could copy your array to a new array one piece at a time (you have to do it like that), and leave out the ShortDescriptionLine2. Then do your screen.setcontentlist() with the new array.

- Joel

[Corgalore]

"jbrave" wrote:
You could copy your array to a new array one piece at a time (you have to do it like that), and leave out the ShortDescriptionLine2. Then do your screen.setcontentlist() with the new array.

- Joel

It's confusing that the SDK references that text as 'paragraphtext', yet you're saying to control it with 'ShortDescriptionLine2'? I've statically set 'paragraphtext' to a peice of simple text and left 'ShortDescriptionLine2' empty, but the Roku seems to be pulling the text I have set as 'Description' instead and displaying it in the paragraph space.

What gives??

[RokuChris]

"Corgalore" wrote:
It's confusing that the SDK references that text as 'paragraphtext', yet you're saying to control it with 'ShortDescriptionLine2'? I've statically set 'paragraphtext' to a peice of simple text and left 'ShortDescriptionLine2' empty, but the Roku seems to be pulling the text I have set as 'Description' instead and displaying it in the paragraph space.

Episodic poster screens display 3 chunks of text, shortDescriptionLine1, shortDescriptionLine2, and description. Paragraphtext is not a valid content-meta-data attribute. It is confusing that it was used on the slides for those screen types.

If you don't want to show the description text, you can use arced-16x9. You'll also get bigger posters that way.