The tags item no longer control the category
“tags”:[“video 7”],
It sould look like this:
id":“97792-22396-4286888”,
“tags”:[“video 8”],
“title”:“Show TV”,
“genres”:[“educational”],
Then at the bottom you use the categories tag and playlist name and item id’s
“categories”:[{
“name”:“The Joe Show”,
“playlistName”:“The Joe Show”,
“order”:“manual”},
{
“name”:“The Joe Show”,
“playlists”:[{“name”:“The Joe Show”,
“itemIds”:[“96484-19970-3223332”,“96484-19970-3177846”,“96484-19970-3177850”,“96484-19970-3177842”,“96484-19970-3177838”,“96484-19970-3177836”,“96484-19970-3177832”,“96484-19970-3177830”,“96484-19970-3177828”,“96484-19970-3177822”,“96484-19970-3177826”,“96484-19970-3177820”,“96484-19970-3177816”,“96484-19970-3177814”,“96484-19970-3177806”,“96484-19970-3177812”,“96484-19970-3177808”,“96484-19970-3177802”
I discovered the playlist isn’t working for some reason. I have a section in the json where I added the name Featured and a Featured category and playlistname. If I list a video in the json under the section named Featured, all videos I list under Featured will display on the tv in the featured row. When I take the video ID out of the playlist for that same video and reload the channel, the video should be removed but it’s not, the video is still showing…so it’s ignoring my playlist ID’s
Mine is setup as this for the live category
],
“categories”: [{
“name”: “Live TV”,
“playlistName”: “livetv”,
“order”: “manual”
},
and playlist as
“playlists”: [{
“name”: “livetv”,
“itemIds”: [
“VTNlive”,
“nrblive”
The change in the detailsviewlogic mentioned in this thread… I didnt make any changes to that. The single videos are playing and the series videos episodes are working. I skipped the step of making any changes to the detailsviewlogic.brs. I only made a change in the roothandler.brs. maybe I should revisit the change that was mentioned in the detailsview..
I understand, send me your feed link to look at it and I’ll let you know my thoughts
use the contact form at https://ondemandtvnetworks.com/contact.html
Thanks for the offer. First I’m rearranging my json. Moving videos into different categories.
When I setup the content sections and name those they show up as categories (rows) with the names I designated. Still have not figured out why the playlistnames are not using the video ID’s to pull the content but the videos I place within the content sections show up in the rows. Worse case scenario I can at least get some content into each category manually.
Anyway, for now moving some files around to clean things up but may still need some eyes on json if I don"t find the problem.
If you setup the categories and item id’s i may have another templat that may parse everything correctly with the feed. Thats one reason I asked to see the feed link to test it for you. I used this templat but went to my own template that i recoded with help of another template i got from a software and made it work for me!
I have a json that has content with content ID’s, categories and playlistsnames. It worked perfectly in DP. So, I figure somewhere in the example coding there is something different since I wasn’t able to get it to work by adding the feed url to the manifest and have everything display the same. Why should it be so easy right lol to just add the url and hope it would work without having to redo everything 
I appreciate your offer to test it.
Sent you the url of json that works in DP. Appreciate you seeing if you can figure out why playlists with ID’s is ignored in the scenegraph example of seeing if it works with your template.
Thank you.
Your feed works perfectly in the original template before it was edited!
sending you a copy!
You have been a great help and went the extra mile to assist.
Thank you for all the time you spent on it.
@ phlume
Many people been writing me for assistance with your template edit and spending days, weeks even longer trying to get their channel setup
With the custom categories and get it just right! I like what you done, Thanks!
Problem: After all that work they are finding the second part of installing and setting up their channel they get digally sgned and upload the package to Roku only to find the package does not pass and gets errors and warnings with static analysis testing!
The question is did you actually upload and publish the template and run the static analysis testing of this template and get successfully published? Did you make any other changes to the package to help with that! The original package direct from Roku without your edits yields the static analysis testing errors same results!
While I have helped people with the edits you showed and images and coding I have not personally used the template myself!
Has anybody tried the “query” option in the Category settings for ordering videos?
https://developer.roku.com/docs/specs/direct-publisher-feed-specs/json-dp-spec.md#content-categories
I’m going to test it out.
They REALLY need to have a whole section in the DP to SDK tutorial about re-setting up CATEGORIES. I told Roku, but who knows if they ever do anything. It was a MAJOR part of the Direct Publisher setup and they ASSUME that you were using the option for Categories with those different ones setup in the JSON file, but you could set it up so that all you were using were TAGS to create your own Categories you created on the Direct Publisher setup page. That’s how mine were, so now I have to test what I probably should have setup to begin with (but it was just so easy to NOT include the Categories in the JSON file and just use the DP setup/format page options based on TAGS).
Anyone have a copy of the OP sample app and/or feed? Seems they have removed it from their hosting. 
