That new fangled "View Recordings Calendar" page in web admin...

[studio55]

Hi,
I just noticed the options that you get when mousing over shows in the new page thats been added in the last version update, the "View Recordings Calendar", and I'm not sure about a couple of them.
"Force" is obvious, but not sure what is the difference between "Delete" and "Prevent". I looked in the Help files but must have tried searching in the wrong place because I couldn't find any info on that new page they added.
What confuses me is that not all shows displayed in the calendar view will have both options. Sometimes its just "Delete" (or could be "Prevent" only, not sure) and sometimes when I click and apply either of the buttons, the show still shows up on the calendar page. This happens with both options sometimes, and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.
Thanks.

[ccarlin]

Originally Posted by studio55

Hi,
I just noticed the options that you get when mousing over shows in the new page thats been added in the last version update, the "View Recordings Calendar", and I'm not sure about a couple of them.
"Force" is obvious, but not sure what is the difference between "Delete" and "Prevent". I looked in the Help files but must have tried searching in the wrong place because I couldn't find any info on that new page they added.
What confuses me is that not all shows displayed in the calendar view will have both options. Sometimes its just "Delete" (or could be "Prevent" only, not sure) and sometimes when I click and apply either of the buttons, the show still shows up on the calendar page. This happens with both options sometimes, and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.
Thanks.

Delete and Prevent are very similar in that they stop the episode or program from being recorded however Prevent also adds it to the recently recorded list. What this does is stop the same episode from being recorded at a different time or potentially a different station.

So basically if you don't ever want something to be recorded you hit Prevent (the option might not be available if there is no unique id for the show, or it is a one time recording and not a series). If you just want the show not to be recorded at the given time on the selected station you can hit delete.

I hope that clears it up.

[studio55]

Thanx carlin