[rs] Schedule the film '1984'

Dave F.

Dave F.

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Hi
I wish to schedule the film '1984'. Is there a way to set RS to find the title if it's only '1984'; such as using RegEx?: '^1984$'

I'm unwilling to set the content to Film/Drama in the standard rules as that relies on Freeview assigning it correctly, which occasionally it fails to do. I've missed a couple of previous recordings. Standard rules will find any program with '1984' in the title, such a historic Top of the Pops.
 
Instead of auto-scheduling the search hit, set it to email alert. Then you can screen the results and only schedule the one you want.
 
Disappointing it can't be auto, but thanks. As * & ? (part of regex) are included could ^ & $ be added?
 
It should work if you just put it in quotes, "1984", at least for an advanced rule.

Edit: just confirmed this with "ncis' - it didn't find the New Orleans or New York variants.
 
af123 said:
It should work if you just put it in quotes, "1984", at least for an advanced rule.

Edit: just confirmed this with "ncis' - it didn't find the New Orleans or New York variants.
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It wouldn't find "New York" as there isn't such a version of NCIS - "Los Angeles"? or CSI:NY? :D
 
EEPhil said:
It wouldn't find "New York" as there isn't such a version of NCIS - "Los Angeles"? or CSI:NY? :D
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Fair enough, it was late. It's the LA variant that stopped showing up once I added the quotes.
 
Resurrecting this post as I'm still frustrated by the rules.
Quotes around the title doesn't work.

I've set a rule to look for a single word film: Brothers. Without quotes it returns any film with that word in the title ie 'Seven brides for seven brothers'.

This is the same as using asterisks (See news below.)

I think there should be difference - A string on it's own without any Regex should find only that literal string.

Help screen:
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Dave F. said:
Resurrecting this post as I'm still frustrated by the rules.
Quotes around the title doesn't work.
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Double quotes has been working for me for quite some time on the advanced rule set.
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Double quotes do not work in a similar manner on the simple rule set.
 
Dave F. said:
Is there a reason the simple set can't have the same rules?
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They were developed at different times and changing the way they work now could break some existing rules for some users.

Is there a reason you cant create an advanced rule - they are not that complicated
 
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