BrowserAssist Beta1 Release (Patreon)

This is the first Beta release of BrowserAssist. It's functionally complete enough to be considered a Beta release now and, in my view, its a fully viable alternative to the VAM Scene Browser. The main new features are:

• User definable tagging system. Every resource/file can be tagged with multiple user definable tags. The Browser results can then be filtered to select resources with a specific tag.
• Support for applying VAM Hidden and Favourite flags from within Browser Assist (see notes below).
• Improved multi select functionality. Tags can be applied to multiple resources simultaneously. Sequences of  adjacent resources can be selected in the browser using Shift click.
• Filtering of resources based on their VAR License is  now supported.
• Rescan buttons, supports refreshing the Browser results when new VARs have been downloaded.
• Improved date ordering of resources in the browser results.
• Lots of other minor refinements.

IMPORTANT NOTES:

1) To enable support for Browser Assist to Hide or Favourite files, there is a windows batch script that needs to be run from Windows Explorer (you may need to be a Windows Administrator to successfully run it). This batch script will create some symbolic folder links between different folders inside your VAM folder structure. This will allow Browser Assist to have write access to 3 folders under the main VAM folder. It is required because (without the symbolic links) VAM plugins cannot write to most folders in the VAM installation - which is required to set a Hidden or Favourite flag on a resource. To enable this functionality, the following steps will need to be performed once:

a) Install BrowserAssist beta as a session plugin in VAM
b) Execute the following batch file from Windows Explorer: VAM\Saves\PluginData\JayJayWon\BrowserAssist\CreateBASymLinks.bat
c) Reload BrowserAssist plugin in VAM

WARNING: In theory, enabling this feature potentially allows a malicious VAM plugin to delete any or all files in the Custom, Saves or AddonPackagesFilePrefs folders under the main VAM folder.

2) The multi select feature of BrowserAssist is very powerful and allows you to apply tags and set the hidden or favourite status of many files/resources with a single click. In some scenarios this may not be easily reversible and requires some caution. For example, you can select every scene in your entire VAR library with a single button press and then instantly make them all set as Favourite (or Hidden) with a second button press. If the scenes were previously a mixture of Favourite and not, its not possible to revert to that mixture without going through each scene and individually setting its Favourite state.

Please report any issues on my Discord page here: https://discord.gg/qrqt2SBzdW