Understand Content Manager Status Labels
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Revision as of 14:08, 3 March 2022
The information in this Wiki Page applies to TRS19 and Trainz Plus. This page is intended to provide information for understanding the different asset Status labels used by Content Manager.
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Content Manager Status
Start Content Manager by clicking Manage Content from the Trainz Launcher.
The Status column in the Content Manager display gives information about each listed assets location, availability, and its "currency" (installed, obsolete, modified, Payware, unknown, etc).
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Notes: It is important to remember that:-
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The Status labels are described in the following sections. |
Available for Download
This modified search filter will show all the freeware assets including their different versions that are available on the Download Station (DLS). Set the Content Manager search filter to Download Station and edit as shown below.
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The filtered list will show all the assets except Payware that are available on the DLS. The Status labels that you may see would be:-
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Available for download | This IS the latest version available on the DLS and it is not already installed. If you are looking to install a new asset or update an existing one, then this is the one you would normally select |
Available for download, Newer version available | This is NOT the latest version available on the DLS and this particular version is not already installed. There is an update to this version available on the DLS |
Available for download, Obsolete | This is NOT the latest version available on the DLS and this particular version is not already installed. You have an updated version already installed but it may not be the latest version |
You can also check to see what is the latest version of an asset that is listed as Newer version available or Obsolete. This will produce a list of all the previous versions (installed or not), currently installed (if any) and later versions of the selected asset. | |||||
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In this case the latest version of the selected asset is already installed (Installed from DLS) and it does not have exactly the same name as the original. If the latest version is not installed in Content Manager then it will be shown as Available for download. |
Create an "Updates Filter"
A very useful Content Manager filter to create and save is one that will identify and display assets that have updates available on the DLS. Detailed step-by-step instructions for making the filter (it is a simple process) can be found on the Wiki Page Set Up An Update Filter but a summary is provided below.
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Installing the Latest or an Older Version of an Asset
Where there are multiple versions of an asset that is Available for download, including Newer and Obsolete versions, you can select any listed version and Content Manager will download and install only the latest version. |
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You can download and install an earlier (older or Obsolete) version of an asset if you don't want the latest version. |
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Installed
This search filter will show all the assets that are installed in Content Manager. Set the Content Manager search filter to Installed. The Status labels that you may see would be:-
[For simplicity only the major labels are shown in the figure below]
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Modified | The asset is one you have created yourself, or have modified or cloned from another asset |
Built-in | The asset was installed when Trainz was installed on your system. Built-in assets cannot be deleted |
Packaged | The asset is included in a DLC package that you have installed. See the Packaged and Payware section below |
Installed from DLS | The asset was installed from the DLS |
Base | The asset was installed when Trainz was installed on your system. Like Built-in assets, Base assets cannot be deleted |
Notes:
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Third Party
You may occasionally see the following label on installed assets:-
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Third Party The assets availability is "questionable". It may be best to avoid using until its status is resolved. |
This will appear on assets that:-
- you have uploaded to the DLS but they have not yet been approved for distribution. Usually it takes 24 hours (sometimes more) before approval is given. After approval the Third Party label will be changed to Installed from DLS
- have been removed from the DLS listing, for a variety of reasons:-
- if the reason was copyright violation then the assets will no longer be available to anyone who had not already downloaded and installed them before they were removed. If you had downloaded them then they will appear as Third Party in your Content Manager. If you include them in an uploaded Route then they will appear as <unknown assets> in the Content Manager of users who have downloaded your Route but do not already have the assets.
- if the reason is repair work then they can still be downloaded and installed, as Third Party assets, and the repaired assets will (eventually) become available as updates that will be identified using the "Updates Available" filter as shown in the example below.
- in some circumstances a removed asset might still be downloaded as a dependency of another asset but not as an individual asset in its own right. It will receive the label Third Party once downloaded.
Running the Updates Available filter (see the Create an "Updates Filter" section above) will identify any Third Party assets that have updates available as shown in the figure below:-
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Disabled
You may occasionally see the following label on installed assets:-
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Disabled The asset has been manually Disabled (from the Content menu select Disable). |
Disabling assets will "hide" them from other assets, including Routes and Sessions, so they cannot be used. It is a useful technique for deleting troublesome assets from a Route or Session without actually deleting the assets themselves. For an example of this see Deleting Stubborn Scenery Assets. Normally you would restore the Disabled assets after fixing the Route or Session (from the Content menu select Enable).
Payware assets that are Disabled will have Payware (not active) as their status label.
Open for Edit
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Open for edit The asset is currently in use by another process such as Surveyor, Driver or Content Manager. |
This label will appear on any asset that you have:-
- currently open in Surveyor (a Route that is being edited) or Driver (a Session that is running)
- opened in Content Manager for editing - for example changing its config.txt file or image files
- imported into Content Manager from a Content File (.cdp file) or a Content Folder when the same asset is already installed
In the first case, exiting Surveyor or Driver will close the open Route and Session assets.
In the second and third cases you will need to manually close the open assets.
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Unknown, Incompatible, Not Installed
Set the Content Manager search filter to All Content and click the Status column heading (once or twice) to sort the very long list according to their Status labels. Scroll down the list and you may see:-
Unknown Location
The Status label "Unknown location, Obsolete" means that a later version of that asset is already installed in Content Manager |
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Unknown location The asset is listed as being on the DLS but it is unavailable |
The Unknown location label can appear if a later version of an asset has been uploaded to the DLS but the original version was not or had been removed for some reason, as shown in the example below.
If the asset is simply labelled as Unknown location then try the following:-
You may find a later version is Available for download |
Incompatible
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Incompatible The asset is designed for a more recent version of Trainz than you are currently using. |
For example: TRS19 and Trainz Plus (SP4) will load Routes and Sessions with Trainz asset version builds up to and including 4.9. Routes and Session with build versions 5.0 and above will be labelled Incompatible and will need a later Trainz version (for example TRS19 SP5 for build 5.0) to be loaded.
The Build Version column will identify the minimum Trainz build that the asset needs.
To display the Build Version column in Content Manager:-
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A list of all the Trainz Build Version Numbers with their corresponding Trainz Version Names and service pack numbers can be found at "Trainz-build"_number |
Not Installed
| Not installed, Payware (not active) The asset is in a DLC package and must be installed using the Content Store option from the Trainz Launcher |
Unknown Asset
An <unknown asset> can appear when using the List Asset Versions or the List Dependencies commands on a selected asset.
The label "<unknown asset>" will be shown in the Name column and the Status column will be blank.
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unknown asset The asset cannot be found on your system or on the DLS. |
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Apart from the example above, unknown assets are almost always dependencies of other assets that you have downloaded and installed. The installed assets would be labelled has having Missing dependencies. See the Missing Dependencies section below.
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The unknown asset may:-
- be from an independent (3rd party) web site
- have been made by the same creator as the dependant asset but was not uploaded to the DLS
- have been removed from the DLS for some reason (a rare event but it does happen)
- simply not exist, anywhere
Fixing this may not be easy. Possible solutions are:-
- There is a very long thread in the Trainz Forum where you can find posts looking for missing/unknown assets. See Missing kuids? Post them here
- You can try contacting the creator via email (their address may be in the config.txt file) or a PM (Personal Message) through the Forum
Neither is a guaranteed solution.
If the unknown asset is in a Route or a Session then a third option is to use the Delete Missing Assets command from the Tools menu in Surveyor, but make a backup copy of the Route or Session first.
Packaged and Payware
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Some of the Status labels that can appear on Packaged and Payware assets are:-
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Packaged | The asset is included in a DLC package that you have installed. See Notes: below |
Payware | The asset is part of a payware package (usually from the DLC). Most DLC Payware can be modified for your personal use (the Status label "Modified" will be added) but cannot be uploaded to the DLS. Exactly which assets in a package are Payware and which are Packaged (freeware) is determined by the creator of the package. See Notes: below |
Payware (not active) | The asset is part of a payware package that is no longer active on your system. You may have uninstalled the package, disabled it, or it may have been installed for a free trial period which has now expired |
Notes: For current DLC packs, there are two important clarifications:-
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Also Note:
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Can you use Packaged assets in a Route or Session that you will upload to the DLS? An asset will be labelled as Packaged if it is on the DLS and is also part of a DLC package that you have installed. The same asset can be in both locations and its status will be labelled according to how it was installed. For example:-
You then use this asset in a Route that you have uploaded to the DLS. Anyone who downloads and installs your DLS Route, and who does not already have the asset or the same DLC package installed, will have NZ House 1-4 downloaded and installed from the DLS by their Content Manager as normally happens with all DLS dependencies during the Route installation process. When they look at the asset in Content Manager they will see:-
If they later install the same DLC package, or another that contains the same asset, its status will change to Packaged. So the answer to the question is Yes. |
Missing Dependencies
This is a label to be avoided.
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Missing dependencies The asset relies on the presence of other assets (dependencies) that must be installed on your system and at least one of those assets has not been installed. |
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This situation shown in the example above can occur if you have:-
- deleted the asset without realising that it is needed in other assets, such as a Route or a Session, or
- used the Import command to install the asset from a .cdp file or a content folder - Content Manager will not search for and install missing dependencies when you import an asset.
- If this is the case then:-
- right mouse click on the asset or assets with the missing dependencies and select List Dependencies
- select all assets marked as Available for Download, right mouse click and select Download
- If this is the case then:-
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This page was created by Trainz user pware in January 2022 and was last updated as shown below.