As of the latest TestFlight beta and server pre-release, Channels for tvOS tvOS & iOS now supports personal sections.
Personal Sections allow you to build your own views in Channels.
Don't like our choice of presentation for the Movies view? Build your own. Wish you had your own section in Channels for just the content you love? Build your own. Love the new Sports section, but wish you could have one just for Game Shows? Build your own!
Personal Sections allow you to add row based views into your library right into your navigation.
How does it work?
You build Personal Sections in your Channels DVR Server web admin, just like you're used to.
Create a new section, give it an icon and a title, then add customized rows to it.
Once you've built some sections, you apply them to your clients via Server Side Settings, just like you do for Channel Collections.
This means they're available globally, or on a per client basis.
Personal Sections appear in your sidebar navigation under all of your other sections.
How do I build them?
Personal Sections are pretty easy. You simply create a new section, give them an icon and a title and then add rows. Rows are where the customizability comes in.
Choose what type of content a row should show: Movies, Shows, Video Groups, Episodes, or Videos.
You can adjust how they're sorted, which direction, and best of all, they support Smart Rules!
Smart Rules allow you to be creative while adding rows for your personal section.
Rows in Personal Sections support even more properties:
- Set whether they are a single horizontal scrolling row, or if they're the traditional double row.
- Set whether the items should show progress indicators or not.
- Set whether the items should display with thumbnail or airing art (Episodes & Videos)
Beta Test
This is a very early beta of this feature and there will be bugs and there will be further development to expand this feature as the beta goes on.
Current Issues
Currently, the navigation sidebar does not handle unlimited items. If you have a lot of items in your sidebar already, it will over flow. The same goes for the title of your section, so keep it short.
Future of Personal Sections
Personal Sections will be worked on for quite some time. We plan on expanding on what is here now to allow you to create as rich of an experience as you can.
So keep watching this thread.
Thanks
As usual, thanks for giving this feature a go, and add any feedback in this thread. And please share some of your personal sections!
. Just to be clear, server side settings only effect tvOS clients, not iOS/iPadOS clients, correct?
