Playlist Auto-Populate 'And' 'Or' Support?

[Fursphere]

Are there any plans to overhaul the playlist Auto-Populate logic to include proper 'and' 'or' support? 

So i can do an "or" between two fields for example?  (instead of only being able to do 'or' logic between multiple criteria in the same field)

[faeran]

On 1/18/2025 at 12:44 PM, Fursphere said:

Are there any plans to overhaul the playlist Auto-Populate logic to include proper 'and' 'or' support? 

So i can do an "or" between two fields for example?  (instead of only being able to do 'or' logic between multiple criteria in the same field)

There's been a lot of discussion in the past about doing this. It would require a major overhaul of the entire system and could in the worst case cause issues with playlists that are already out there.

In saying that, I'd love to hear any real world rulesets that you are burning to use if we were to implement a system like this.

[Fursphere]

I've been overhauling my cabinets lately, and re-evaluating how I've got the front ends setup to 'present' things.  Let me see if I can convey my thought process on this one in a way that makes sense.  lol

I've got two 2-player stand up cabinets that can be physically linked (hardware) to create a big 4 player cabinet (with mirrored screens basically).  I made the decision quite some time back that the stand up arcades would only have arcade games on them.  Console systems are all on another PC hooked up in my living room. 

Looking at "Platforms" you get kind of a strange combination of things.   Some are single system (Sega Model 2) and some are multi-system (MAME / TeknoParrot).  But they're all Arcade games right?  So how do you unify everything so the 'platform' doesn't matter?  Playlists of course.  You know this already.

Building a custom 4-player game list that's auto-populated.   Sometimes "max players" is what you look at.  Sometimes its "Play mode". 

If I add "Field: Max Players" and "Field: Play Mode" in the same auto-populate list, its a hard AND.   You can only do "OR" with multiple values under the same "Field" right?.  So there is effectively no way to evaluate both fields?  (Unless there is some way to do this that I'm not aware of). 
 

That's the one use case I was toying with last weekend when I made this point.  I think I had another, but can't recall at the moment. 

What I really want is a T-SQL query based search....    heh   But I know that's not going to happen.