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Rename and remove field values

Every field that remembers values keeps a list of what you have typed into it: the list that autocompletes in the detail panel. The Field values view of the Library window shows those lists, and changes a value on every shot that carries it, in every shot selects file at once.

The Library window on its Field values view, the Field dropdown set to Company, one value listed with its shot, shot selects and reel counts, and add, remove and rename buttons below.

The Field values view, with Company chosen and every value it holds

Before you start

  • Every shot selects file that carries the value must be registered in the Library. One that is not registered is not changed. See The Library window.

Warning

Renaming and removing a value rewrite your shot selects files on disk, and cannot be undone with Ctrl+Z.

Find the value

  1. Choose File › Library…, then pick Field values in View.
  2. Pick the field in Field. It opens on Company.
  3. Find the value in the table.

Field lists every text and list field that remembers values, from every registered shot selects file. A field only one preset has appears once a file using that preset is registered. Number fields, such as Year, are not listed.

Each row shows how many Shots, Selects and Reels use the value, most used first. A value you added before any shot uses it is listed last, with no counts.

Right-click a value for Selects (4) and Reels (2), with their counts, and choose one to open it in a tab.

Rename a value

  1. Select the value.
  2. Choose the rename button, "Rename the selected value on every shot that uses it".
  3. Type the new name in Rename Company, titled for the field, and choose OK.

Every shot carrying the value changes, in every registered shot selects file and in any tab you have open. In a list field such as Assets, only the matching item changes. Capitalization, and spaces at either end, do not count when matching.

If the new name is already a value, Merge Company Values explains first: every shot using the old value takes the new one. In a field with logos, the surviving value keeps its own logo, and takes the old value's only if it had none.

Remove a value

  1. Select the value.
  2. Choose the − button.
  3. If no shot uses the value, ShotWork asks whether to remove it; choose Yes. It stops autocompleting, and its logo image, if it had one, stays in the pool.
  4. If shots still use it, the dialog lists each shot selects file and how many of its shots carry the value. In Reassign those shots to, pick another value, or (clear the field) to leave the field empty, and choose OK.

Add a value

  1. Choose the + button.
  2. Type the name, and choose OK.

The value autocompletes in the detail panel from then on, before any shot uses it. Adding a value that already exists, in any capitalization, does nothing.

What happens

  • Only files where something changed are saved. An open tab with unsaved changes keeps them, with the new value applied, so it cannot save the old value back.
  • A shot selects file that could not be read is named afterward in Some shot selects were skipped, because it may still hold the old value.
  • Remembered values only grow on their own. A value stays in the list after the last shot using it changes, until you remove it here.
  • Capitalization does not make a new value. The casing typed first is the one kept.
  • Tags have a remembered list of their own, which this view does not show; it feeds the suggestions in Suggested tags and names.