# set appleTV View mode

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/set-appletv-view-mode/206462>\
**Category:** Dev/API Corner\
**Tags:** plugin-dev\
**Created:** [September 16, 2017, 7:27pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/set-appletv-view-mode/206462 "2017-09-16T19:27:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![fluxcapa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/fluxcapa/32/20351_2.png) [@fluxcapa](https://forums.plex.tv/u/fluxcapa)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2017, 7:27pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/set-appletv-view-mode/206462/1 "2017-09-16T19:27:16Z")

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Hi everyone,

I’m aware the user can’t set the view type of a channel. It seems to just be the split view list type.

I was wondering if there were more views available and that I would be able to set in my channel code.

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**Author:** ![fluxcapa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/fluxcapa/32/20351_2.png) [@fluxcapa](https://forums.plex.tv/u/fluxcapa)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2017, 7:42pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/set-appletv-view-mode/206462/2 "2017-09-16T19:42:19Z")

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Specifically I suppose I’m asking which views are available if a code like:  
def Start(): # Initialize the plug-in

```
  Plugin.AddViewGroup("Details", viewMode="InfoList", mediaType="items")
  Plugin.AddViewGroup("List", viewMode="List", mediaType="items")

# Setup the default attributes for the ObjectContainer
ObjectContainer.title1 = TITLE
ObjectContainer.view_group = 'List'
ObjectContainer.art = R(ART)
```

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**Author:** ![shopgirl284](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@shopgirl284](https://forums.plex.tv/u/shopgirl284)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 9:47pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/set-appletv-view-mode/206462/3 "2017-09-29T21:47:43Z")

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There was a time when there were setting options in each player app to change the view type, but now the player apps just show everything in either details, list, or poster views by default and do not allow you to change the view types.

So I do not think that any of the player apps recognize or support Plugin.AddViewGroup() anymore.

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**Author:** ![fluxcapa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/fluxcapa/32/20351_2.png) [@fluxcapa](https://forums.plex.tv/u/fluxcapa)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2017, 4:55pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/set-appletv-view-mode/206462/4 "2017-10-06T16:55:02Z")

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Thanks for clarifying, I tried a lot of things and none of the views changed to what I wanted. Too bad, it would look a lot cleaner with what I’m doing if it was a list view.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2020, 8:05pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/set-appletv-view-mode/206462/5 "2020-01-08T20:05:17Z")

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