Smart Content Woes

Geminii23

So has anyone encountered this... I seem to have two Victoria 5 icons in my Smart content tab.  Both are identical in content, but they have different Global ID and one has Metadata, the other doesn't.

Anyone know how I can fix this?

Also, why when I install all new content through DIM, do the items show up with the Install Icon in the corner as if they need to be installed again?

Thanks

Havos

The best way to remove duplicates from Smart Content is to right click on the tab, and the select "Content DB Maintenance"

Firstly export your user meta data (if you have any), then reset the database, followed by reimporting all the metadata again from the stuff you have installed. The whole process should take around 5 mins.

Geminii23

Havos said:

The best way to remove duplicates from Smart Content is to right click on the tab, and the select "Content DB Maintenance"

Firstly export your user meta data (if you have any), then reset the database, followed by reimporting all the metadata again from the stuff you have installed. The whole process should take around 5 mins.

So I have a lot of custom User content.  I was able to make a lot of my Rendo and third party content show up in Smart Content by creating products and custom metadata.  Will this get exported properly when I "export user meta data"

Havos

Geminii23 said:

Havos said:

The best way to remove duplicates from Smart Content is to right click on the tab, and the select "Content DB Maintenance"

Firstly export your user meta data (if you have any), then reset the database, followed by reimporting all the metadata again from the stuff you have installed. The whole process should take around 5 mins.

So I have a lot of custom User content.  I was able to make a lot of my Rendo and third party content show up in Smart Content by creating products and custom metadata.  Will this get exported properly when I "export user meta data"

If you have created custom products (ie they are in their own zip files sitting in the DIM installation directory), then you have nothing to worry about. This will not export as User Data, but will be be re-imported during that stage, as DIM will re-read the smart meta data from those products support files.

UserData is any smart content you have set up yourself from within DS, or Smart Content added by scripts (for example Zev0's G3 to G8 pose converter).

Geminii23

Havos said:

Geminii23 said:

Havos said:

The best way to remove duplicates from Smart Content is to right click on the tab, and the select "Content DB Maintenance"

Firstly export your user meta data (if you have any), then reset the database, followed by reimporting all the metadata again from the stuff you have installed. The whole process should take around 5 mins.

So I have a lot of custom User content.  I was able to make a lot of my Rendo and third party content show up in Smart Content by creating products and custom metadata.  Will this get exported properly when I "export user meta data"

If you have created custom products (ie they are in their own zip files sitting in the DIM installation directory), then you have nothing to worry about. This will not export as User Data, but will be be re-imported during that stage, as DIM will re-read the smart meta data from those products support files.

UserData is any smart content you have set up yourself from within DS, or Smart Content added by scripts (for example Zev0's G3 to G8 pose converter).

Hmmmm.  No they are not custom products in that way.

Basically I used the Content Editor method (don't know what else to call it).  IE - In the Content Library, I set the appropriate categories, Create a Product From and then used the Content DB Editor to assign the meta, etc.  The item then shows up in Studio/My Library/Runtime/Support and I give it a proper icon image and voila - the item shows up in Smart Content panel like any DAZ Product.

So would I lose all of these custom items?   

Havos

Geminii23 said:

Havos said:

Geminii23 said:

Havos said:

The best way to remove duplicates from Smart Content is to right click on the tab, and the select "Content DB Maintenance"

Firstly export your user meta data (if you have any), then reset the database, followed by reimporting all the metadata again from the stuff you have installed. The whole process should take around 5 mins.

So I have a lot of custom User content.  I was able to make a lot of my Rendo and third party content show up in Smart Content by creating products and custom metadata.  Will this get exported properly when I "export user meta data"

If you have created custom products (ie they are in their own zip files sitting in the DIM installation directory), then you have nothing to worry about. This will not export as User Data, but will be be re-imported during that stage, as DIM will re-read the smart meta data from those products support files.

UserData is any smart content you have set up yourself from within DS, or Smart Content added by scripts (for example Zev0's G3 to G8 pose converter).

Hmmmm.  No they are not custom products in that way.

Basically I used the Content Editor method (don't know what else to call it).  IE - In the Content Library, I set the appropriate categories, Create a Product From and then used the Content DB Editor to assign the meta, etc.  The item then shows up in Studio/My Library/Runtime/Support and I give it a proper icon image and voila - the item shows up in Smart Content panel like any DAZ Product.

So would I lose all of these custom items?   

Best thing is to start by exporting your user data. It creates a file called UserData_1.dsx which represents your metadata. The file is stored in your runtime in Runtime/Support

Open this file, and ensure it has the meta data that you set up yourself. If you are happy, then take a copy of the file and proceed with the database rebuild. The final step of this will be to re-import all your metadata, including the user defined stuff. This should restore everything, but please don't sue me if it doesn't!

Geminii23

Ok, so all of my custom content seems to be in tact and working but once again, Victoria 5 showing up as a duplicate with the install triangle.  Strange.

Havos

Hmm, very odd. Did you reset the database, or just did a re-import the metadata?

 If you look in your UserData_1.dsx does this contain anything for Victoria 5?

Havos

One other thing, did you install Victoria 5 maybe using both DIM and Daz Connect?

Geminii23

Havos said:

One other thing, did you install Victoria 5 maybe using both DIM and Daz Connect?

Yes, I reset the DB, then re-import meta as you instructed.  I have always just installed through DIM, but under the install tab in Daz there are 241 products that want to be installed again through Daz Connect apparently, Victoria 5 included.  But I do see that some of these items are not showing up in Smart Content pane even though they were originally installed through DIM.

Havos

See if you can de-install V5 using DAZ Connect.

Also it is worth connecting into DAZ Connect every now and then, even if you install everything with DIM, since it will update a lot of the metadata you have to apply additional fixes not yet rolled out to the DIM zip files.

Geminii23

Havos said:

See if you can de-install V5 using DAZ Connect.

Also it is worth connecting into DAZ Connect every now and then, even if you install everything with DIM, since it will update a lot of the metadata you have to apply additional fixes not yet rolled out to the DIM zip files.

I am not seeing anyway to uninstall through DAZ connect.  What if I uninstall through DIM?  Would V5 still show up as a product to install through Daz Connect?

Geminii23

I mean, if I uninstalled V5 in DIM, would I still be able to install her through Daz Connect afterwards.

Havos

Geminii23 said:

I mean, if I uninstalled V5 in DIM, would I still be able to install her through Daz Connect afterwards.

 

I thought you could install via Connect regardless of whether you had, or had not, installed the same product through DIM, although it is a bad idea to install the same with both.

You could always try and uninstall V5 via DIM and then reinstall (again with DIM), to see if that gets rid of the duplicate, but I am not sure it will.

Geminii23

Havos said:

Geminii23 said:

I mean, if I uninstalled V5 in DIM, would I still be able to install her through Daz Connect afterwards.

 

I thought you could install via Connect regardless of whether you had, or had not, installed the same product through DIM, although it is a bad idea to install the same with both.

You could always try and uninstall V5 via DIM and then reinstall (again with DIM), to see if that gets rid of the duplicate, but I am not sure it will.

Unfortunately uninstalling and reinstalling through DIM didn't help.  I wonder if I should just open a ticket for this issue?

Havos

Geminii23 said:

Havos said:

Geminii23 said:

I mean, if I uninstalled V5 in DIM, would I still be able to install her through Daz Connect afterwards.

 

I thought you could install via Connect regardless of whether you had, or had not, installed the same product through DIM, although it is a bad idea to install the same with both.

You could always try and uninstall V5 via DIM and then reinstall (again with DIM), to see if that gets rid of the duplicate, but I am not sure it will.

Unfortunately uninstalling and reinstalling through DIM didn't help.  I wonder if I should just open a ticket for this issue?

Probably the best idea, see if they can come up with some more suggestions

Geminii23

So, I did open a ticket.  But I also recently noticed that only some of my custom LOCAL_USER content is searchable by Artist.  Really strange.

Geminii23

So does anyone have a lot of experience with creating their own metadata and custom content.  IE - making third party items show up in Smart Content?

I had things working pretty good, but after trying to fix this duplicate DAZ items issue (which didn't work) I know have an issue where the only third party content that is searchable now is my items by AlfaSeed/AeonSoul.  I can select the artist name or search by artist and all items show properly in Smart Content search.  Any other third party items won't show even if I select the artist from Info tab of that item itself.

The only thing I can think of now is that maybe there are duplicate Global IDs or something.  I don't know.  I have even tried selecting one of the items and editing the metadata again, just saving it and overwriting the old one in Runtime/Support.  Still not working.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.