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jeremyk
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Hiding the paragraph text from episodic view?

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!
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jbrave
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Re: Hiding the paragraph text from episodic view?

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.

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Corgalore
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Re: Hiding the paragraph text from episodic view?

"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??
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RokuChris
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Re: Hiding the paragraph text from episodic view?

"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.
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