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xenonism
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Confused about filters...

Post by xenonism »

I haven't been using sabnzbd for two months, now I came back to it and the queue, while expectedly long, also looked wrong. Basically, tags that are supposed to be rejected were allowed to the queue. While confident that everything was working well before the two months break, I went to the Wiki to find out what might be wrong. That's where I got confused.

First of all, the Wiki makes text examples of filtering and doesn't show the actual Web interface. Apart from that, I always used multiple keywords in the same filter line, with no separator, but that doesn't seem to work right now. Finally, I saw mentions of a "Preview" button that would show the effect of active filters on the RSS feed, but I can't find it anywhere in my Web interface. I am using version 0.7.16 and the "Plush - gold" interface, like I was before my break.

Here's a screenshot explaining what I mean with multiple keywords and showing the absence of a Preview button:

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Can anyone enlighten me? Thanks in advance! :)
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jcfp
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Re: Confused about filters...

Post by jcfp »

I doubt specifying multiple keywords the way you do in your screenshot does what you hope for. If you want to reject on each of those keywords, try creating a separate reject filter for each or use a regexp.

Wiki probably means the "read feed" button when it's talking about preview, please comment in http://forums.sabnzbd.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3513 (no I cannot edit the wiki).
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Re: Confused about filters...

Post by xenonism »

Thanks for your reply. About the multiple keywords issue, what puzzles me is that I had the impression it worked that way until now. I know I can set multiple filters, but I think "my way" would make things easier.

About the Preview button, I posted in that thread like you suggested, but I think the feature was probably removed. After all, when you click "Save" on a filter, the "Matched-Not Matched-Downloaded" table is updated, so it works as a preview, somehow. Still, the Preview feature was mentioned in the forum just last March by shypike, so I find it strange that it's gone without a warning.
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