How to find an ID in Scenarist

srfscenar · 7th October 2011, 11:15

Hi all,

I was wondering, is there a fast way to search for an ID of an asset in Scenarist or you must check EVERYTHING till you find it?

Thanks!

rik1138 · 7th October 2011, 20:11

Open the XML file for the project in a text editor (the .sbdprj file), and look for the ID in quotes. (If the ID you want is 2400, search "2400" including the quotes as just searching for the number might find a lot of matches. You can also search for ID="2400" if you need to narrow it more.) That will tell you what it is pretty quickly, and then you can go back to the project and find it faster. Not sure if there's an easy to find them in the program itself...

IDs are generally created in numerical order too, so if you've found 2396 by chance, 2400 has to be near by...

They need a 'Jump to ID' option in the program pretty badly...

(Shot Rovi a feature request, we'll see what they say...

)
Their response: In an upcoming release the error message should be far clearer with more helpful info. This should make it much easier to navigate to the issue that is being reported.

So hopefully they'll make it easier to locate some of these problems... Especially when you have a huge project with a potential of thousands of different IDs. Have to stick with the text search for now...

srfscenar · 8th October 2011, 10:34

Super helpful rik!!!
Thanks!

And good to know that Rovi will fix that!!!

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srfscenar Registered User Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 492	How to find an ID in Scenarist Hi all, I was wondering, is there a fast way to search for an ID of an asset in Scenarist or you must check EVERYTHING till you find it? Thanks! __________________ " 2 minds are better than 1 "

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rik1138 Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: LA Posts: 620	Open the XML file for the project in a text editor (the .sbdprj file), and look for the ID in quotes. (If the ID you want is 2400, search "2400" including the quotes as just searching for the number might find a lot of matches. You can also search for ID="2400" if you need to narrow it more.) That will tell you what it is pretty quickly, and then you can go back to the project and find it faster. Not sure if there's an easy to find them in the program itself... IDs are generally created in numerical order too, so if you've found 2396 by chance, 2400 has to be near by... They need a 'Jump to ID' option in the program pretty badly... (Shot Rovi a feature request, we'll see what they say... ) Their response: In an upcoming release the error message should be far clearer with more helpful info. This should make it much easier to navigate to the issue that is being reported. So hopefully they'll make it easier to locate some of these problems... Especially when you have a huge project with a potential of thousands of different IDs. Have to stick with the text search for now... Last edited by rik1138; 7th October 2011 at 22:02.

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srfscenar Registered User Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 492	Super helpful rik!!! Thanks! And good to know that Rovi will fix that!!! __________________ " 2 minds are better than 1 "