0001380: Search/AutoPlaylist for 'empty' fields or 'non-empty' fields should be more usable

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0001380	MMW v4	Playlist / Search	public	2004-05-18 01:38	2007-02-05 12:45

Reporter	rusty	Assigned To
Priority	high	Severity	major	Reproducibility	always
Status	resolved	Resolution	fixed
Fixed in Version	3.0

Summary	0001380: Search/AutoPlaylist for 'empty' fields or 'non-empty' fields should be more usable
Description	In MM 2.2, search for empty/non-empty fields was implemented, however, it's unintuitive because: i) This only works with 'equals'/'not equals' conditions, and there's nothing in the UI to make users aware of this ii) For some Criteria, when 'equals'/'not equals' is the Condition, a list of checkboxes appears (e.g. for Album, Genre, Mood, etc.) which implies to the user that something must be checked off. Most users do not even realize that they can search for Album="" by not entering anything! The simple solution to this is to add, for all Criteria except 'All Text Fields', a new Condition called 'is unknown'. Whenever this condition is chosen, there should be no UI to enter a Value. Note: there's no need to remove the current functionality.
Additional Information	Original feature: #1297 Example of experienced user (onkel enno) not realizing that the functionality is already available: http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3614
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Fixed in build	1014

rusty 2005-11-29 15:03 administrator ~0006430	Raising to 'immediate' since we need to either decide to fix it this week or push it from 2.5 since we want to finalize strings this week (or add the strings to the current build so that we can decide to add it in later on in the release cycle).

jiri 2005-12-01 15:28 administrator ~0006444	There's no need for string update, so decreasing priority.

jiri 2005-12-01 15:34 administrator ~0006446	Wrong bug...

jiri 2005-12-02 14:51 administrator ~0006453	The string 'is unknown' was temporarily added manually to the list of translations strings in order to decrease priority of this bug.

rusty 2005-12-06 14:55 administrator ~0006527	Pushed beyond 2.5.1 to get it out the door quickly.

Ludek 2007-02-05 12:44 developer ~0008524	It is not true that for all Criteria except 'All Text Fields' the new Condition called 'is unknown' should be add. For example criteria like Path/Filename, Type, Media, Played #, Status are always known. The new condition was added for all criteria except the described.