Tvshow.nfo plot vs outline

[tOLJY 49]

Hi,

When I have metadata scraping turned on, the outline I set in my nfo is overridden with the same as the scraped plot field, even if I lock the outline field.

Is there a reason for this? From what I understand outline should be the short form and plot the long form. I'm trying to set up the metadata so it can show me a brief overview on the show page and then more details only once I click into it.

[Luke 42077]

Hi, it's because currently the server's nfo support treats them interchangeable, meaning as being the same thing.

[tOLJY 49]

You say "currently" - do you expect this to change in future?

[Luke 42077]

Actually, we're only writing outline but never reading it, so maybe we could just stop touching it altogether. We're putting the tagline in there. Some users might actually like that so I don't know if we can just remove it.

[tOLJY 49]

What I'm trying to do is have a short version displayed on the series screen, with more detail once I click into the outline - can you see any way I can do this by adding a div with a page break etc to the data?

Or does the outline displayed on the series screen just do the first couple of hundred characters and then ellipsis?

[tOLJY 49]

All good, add <br/><br/><br/><p/> after the short form data and then going into more detail after it seems to work pretty well

[Luke 42077]

Not sure what the end result of that is, but if you're happy then I'm happy.

[tOLJY 49]

Basically, I'm trying to set up a python script which looks at my library and watchlist and makes reccoemndations by adding stub files to a Reccoemndations library I've made up.

I pretty much want the series screen to look like normal with the outline/plot, but then on the expanded view include some text on why I might like it, based off how it was found/what AI thinks.

Pictures for reference.