[Feature]: Ability to not fetch referred publications media

[dagandrew]

Is your feature request related to a problem?

Sometimes there are too many media items in the midweek meeting because it references additional publications. For example in the week starting Jan 20

or 27

Describe the solution you'd like

It would be great if there was a setting of excluding referred publications in midweek meeting (except Congregation Bible Study of course - you could keep only the last referred pub, since it's the last part of Wookbook) in the Advanced settings alongside 'Exclude all media from the Teaching brochure'. It would be similar of what JW Library does
and I think it's similar to this #874 and maybe now it's easier since Workbook is changed a bit

Describe alternatives you've considered

Show them, but maybe an option of hiding all referred publication this week on the main screen in the right click menu like 'hide all referred media items' alongside 'hide this media item'

Additional context

No response

Confirmations

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[dagandrew]

Or if you definitely want to keep it you could hide it in dropdown menu with a publication name that goes between main media items

[sircharlo]

Actually, JW Library does not do this. By default it even shows more media than M³, because JWL shows all pictures for any given chapter, not just the images relating to paragraphs covered or referenced by the material.

The difference lies in the fact that JWL doesn't notify the user if a referred publication is not downloaded. If you were to download all referred publications in JWL and look at the media list once more, I think you'd see a much different media list.

[mtdvlpr]

We could make the assumption that videos from referred publications are never used, since videos are always referenced directly (Play the VIDEO). That would clean up edge cases like the week of January 27.

[sircharlo]

We could make the assumption that videos from referred publications are never used, since videos are always referenced directly (Play the VIDEO). That would clean up edge cases like the week of January 27.

I do agree with that.