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[krh5150]

Hi,

I reviewed and tested the example code from the documentation for the PosterScreen using the filter category banner. However, how is a group of data loaded into each category? For example, you have a TV show with 3 seasons. Each season will have specific episodes. How are those episodes loaded into their specific seasons, if using the "season" as the category.....[Season 1, Season 2, Season 3]?

When testing the code from the documentation, it loads 10 episodes and not into any categories.

Thanks,
Kevin

[RokuChris]

You need to manage that data in whatever way makes the most sense for your situation.

There are lots of different ways to do it, but one solution is to store the arrays of content-meta-data items in a parallel array such that they are ordered the same as the array you pass to SetListNames().

contentArrays = [
  [{ title: "S1E1" }]
  [{ title: "S2E1" }]
  [{ title: "S3E1" }]
]

Then, you can populate a category by saying something like:

if msg.isListFocused()
  index = msg.GetIndex()
  screen.SetContentList(contentArrays[index])