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include episodes in simple search results
patch:
--- Quote from: Marc on August 09, 2009, 11:17:53 am ---Hmm, it seems I have misunderstood the purpose of Personal Video Database. My intent is to use it as a DVD (and Blu-ray) database,
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Different people use it different ways. I believe others with similar need have found it suitable.
--- Quote from: Marc on August 09, 2009, 11:17:53 am ---Anyway, my idea of a box set feature looks the same and works the same as episodes work: you enter a new movie which is the DVD box set (so it's not a new movie you enter, but a DVD), and then you add the movies that the box contains in the same way as you would add episodes. The difference being that the box is just a group name, and the movies behave just like regular movies (in searches and such).
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You can use it this way but it is not really how it was intended to be used, which is why you are finding it doesn't quite behave as expected. Series is designed for TV shows which have a defined structure coded so as to link data source & internal database. It is hard enough to get it working without trying to make it do more again.
I agree the structure looks tempting though.
Have you tried editing the title (not original title) to reflect the box it comes from. If you prefix the title by the box description, box content will appear together when sorted by title (you just loose the collapsing list). It is how I solve the problem in my database.
--- Quote from: Marc on August 09, 2009, 11:17:53 am ---In my case they need ID's because that's how my collection is ordered: I entered every movie based on the date of purchase, so old movies have a low number, new movies a high one. Since I can't sort the collection by purchase date (this is a custom field), I rely on the ID's. Hence your solution doesn't work for me.
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Have you tried the date added sorted display.
Marc:
--- Quote from: patch on August 09, 2009, 02:05:29 pm ---Have you tried editing the title (not original title) to reflect the box it comes from. If you prefix the title by the box description, box content will appear together when sorted by title (you just loose the collapsing list). It is how I solve the problem in my database.
--- Quote from: Marc on August 09, 2009, 11:17:53 am ---In my case they need ID's because that's how my collection is ordered: I entered every movie based on the date of purchase, so old movies have a low number, new movies a high one. Since I can't sort the collection by purchase date (this is a custom field), I rely on the ID's. Hence your solution doesn't work for me.
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Have you tried the date added sorted display.
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Both of these suggestions are problematic for me. I prefer to sort my titles by ID (which in my case corresponds the purchase date), so ordering by titles is not ideal, even if it would solve my box problem.
Plus, having imported my collection from another program, the 'date added' is the same for all titles. Maybe I can re-import the collection and port my 'purchase date' over to the 'date added' field?
rick.ca:
--- Quote from: Marc on August 09, 2009, 11:17:53 am ---Hmm, it seems I have misunderstood the purpose of Personal Video Database. My intent is to use it as a DVD (and Blu-ray) database...
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The brilliance of the design is that it's based on something everyone is interested in and which will not change—the movie itself. For many movies, the media will be published in a multitude of different editions, all of which will become obsolete. In the not-too-distant future, the Internet will be the most common delivery method, and there will be no media.
--- Quote ---Anyway, my idea of a box set feature looks the same and works the same as episodes work...
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And that's fine in that it doesn't involve changing the existing handling of series. It would be more flexible and therefore appealing to more users if it could be applied or not—as with grouping.
--- Quote ---Since I can't sort the collection by purchase date (this is a custom field), I rely on the ID's.
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If you want to sort by purchase date, sort by purchase date! If there's a reason you can't use Date added for purchase date, then you have to use a custom field. Since there are no date-type custom fields, this would have to be a short text field in which the date is stored as YYYY-MM-DD. The custom field will be included in the sort menu.
--- Quote ---Plus, having imported my collection from another program, the 'date added' is the same for all titles. Maybe I can re-import the collection and port my 'purchase date' over to the 'date added' field?
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You can export Purchase date, convert it to a string in the form YYY-MM-DD and re-import it as Date added. Consider using the two fields, however. You may want to add movies before purchasing them (e.g., wish list) or without ever purchasing them (e.g., members of a movie series you don't want to own, but want to record so as to have a complete record of the series).
nostra:
Personal Video Database is really coded with movies in mind, not media movies are released on. I am sure it is the best way to go, so I will not change this basic concept of the program. PVD is still flexible enough to handle media based collections in most cases, IMHO. Nevertheless, I have some users here and a couple of users on the Russian forum as well as some email requests to support such things like:
1. Season records
2. Box sets
3. Multiple movies on one DVD / BD
4. Group records
I am investigating the possibilities to solve these problems and will certainly improve the application in this regard when I find some good solutions. Improved grouping (as Rick said) does really seems to be the best solution at this time.
patch:
--- Quote from: Marc on August 09, 2009, 03:09:26 pm ---Both of these suggestions are problematic for me. I prefer to sort my titles by ID (which in my case corresponds the purchase date), so ordering by titles is not ideal, even if it would solve my box problem.
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If ID was enhanced to support a suffix or decimal values, would that solve your problem? Basically this would give you the ability to manually add movies between existing movies in your series.
More generally adding a user defined prefix & suffix (then sort on the 3 fields in turn) maybe a general solution to this problem allowing support multiple shelves of discs & later addition between existing records.
--- Quote from: Marc on August 09, 2009, 03:09:26 pm ---Plus, having imported my collection from another program, the 'date added' is the same for all titles. Maybe I can re-import the collection and port my 'purchase date' over to the 'date added' field?
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Could well be the best solution for you depending on how much manual work you have done on your PVD database.
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