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Marc:
It seems to me the best way to enter a boxset in PVD is to add the box, then include the movies as 'episodes'. This works well, but when you click for example on an actor's name, the results wont include other movies. Maybe for a future PVD version this behavior could be altered to regard episodes as movies when listing credits, doing searches, etc?

rick.ca:
If you decide to treat movies as episodes, you have to accept the program is is going to in all ways handle them as such. This may be okay for a set of movies that are almost as closely related as are episodes (e.g., the cast is largely the same). Usually, this is not the case. See this topic.

Marc:
Yes I saw that topic. But I was wondering if the program could be adjusted to handle the episodes in another way, treat them more like seperate movies (at least as far as the credits are concerned). Of course, the real solution would be a new feature that lets you properly catalogue box sets. I'm sure that will probably be added in the future, but in the meantime, maybe a tiny modification of the episode feature could be a temporary solution?

Marc:
I should also mention that the way you suggested handling boxes in that topic won't work for me, as I've imported a large collection from another program so adding the box movies seperately will mess up my ID's (my ID's are numbered after purchase date, so the box could have a low ID and the box items would be high ID's - no good).

rick.ca:

--- Quote ---Of course, the real solution would be a new feature that lets you properly catalogue box sets.
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If you want a "solution," I think this is want you should focus on and attempt to define. It's not a good idea to modify an existing feature/behaviour to accommodate a use it was never intended for. You're going to end up insisting the episodes behave like movies (e.g., in search and filtering), and I'm going to insist they behave like episodes. I think the best way to handle box sets is to have mechanism that looks similar to that for series, but really is just a means to group independent movie records into a box set. There could be grouping option to apply this, or to turn it off to "free" the individual movies. Assuming the parent record would be used to record information about the box set, what information would you expect to see there?


--- Quote ---adding the box movies seperately will mess up my ID's
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I don't understand. How do ID's impact on the handling of box sets? Why do they even need ID's?

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