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37mediagroup
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Manipulating Sort Order Limitations (coming from Direct Publisher)

Formerly I was on Direct Pubiisher, and thought we had a sort feature options thru the Dashboard. However seems that feature goes away with SDK. Can I ask, where do things stand with Sort Order?

 

Is there a reason it cannot be manually manipulated more?   If still using JSON, I believe our only options are:

 

  • most_recent: reverse chronological order
  • chronological: the order in which the content was published (e.g., Episode 1, Episode 2, etc.)
  • most_popular: sort by popularity (based on Roku usage data).

 

Neither seems very efficient. I thought previously I did it thru the DP Dashboard and there was an option for 'Date Added', so I was changing those accordingly to get the best lineup (I think that was even somewhat buggy).  Are we limited to Chronological (oldest first), Most Recent (newest first), and Popularity?

 

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Baradanikto
Roku Guru

Re: Manipulating Sort Order Limitations (coming from Direct Publisher)

Have you tried using playlists in your feed file?  Playlists allow you to manually specify the order of content items.  Especially if you use the wizard tool I've written.

FREE Windows desktop software for converting Direct Publisher channels to SceneGraph (SDK), for creating BIF (Trick Play) files, Roku (MRSS, JSON) feed files, and FireTV feed files @ GitHub/rrirower.
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37mediagroup
Roku Guru

Re: Manipulating Sort Order Limitations (coming from Direct Publisher)

Thanks man, will check it out.  Thought that was more for 'Series' or something.

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