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buah:
If the movie is rated by PVD user, it is considered as seen. It would be nice to see "Seen" checkbox automatically checked while rating movie in "Rating" field. Also, it should be allowed to subsequently uncheck "Seen" checkbox, whether or not "Rating" field is filled in, i.e. in purpose to watch it again and revise given rating.

Cheers

rick.ca:
Having some reason to add or change a rating doesn't necessarily mean the movie has been seen, so this would have to be an optional behaviour. Also, the second part of your idea is not clear. Do you want an existing rating to be reset when "seen" is changed to "unseen"?

Although this seems convenient, I would sometimes forget the seen status is being changed when I rate the movie, and then the date seen (which is important to me) would not get recorded. It would be nice to have a special dialog that would include all the things that need to be updated after a movie is viewed—date (with same options as current menu), rating, comments, the option to delete the media, etc. It would be particularly useful if it could accommodate custom fields—then it could be adapted to any particular routine/work flow.

buah:

--- Quote from: rick.ca on January 29, 2010, 01:20:52 am ---Do you want an existing rating to be reset when "seen" is changed to "unseen"?
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Of course not.


--- Quote from: rick.ca on January 29, 2010, 01:20:52 am ---Although this seems convenient, I would sometimes forget the seen status is being changed when I rate the movie, and then the date seen (which is important to me) would not get recorded.
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I don't get this? If "Seen" is already checked (with or without seen date), it's status wouldn't change while rating, only if it's unchecked. But, if you watched a movie, and you didn't checked it as "Seen", and you didn't rate it, if you first decide to rate it you could automatically get "Seen" checked. Later you can add seen date, if you now it?


--- Quote from: rick.ca on January 29, 2010, 01:20:52 am ---Having some reason to add or change a rating doesn't necessarily mean the movie has been seen
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I couldn't figure out any reasonable reason (;D) other than to rate seen movie. But, if you think so...

I found this option in almost any movie manager I tried, and I found it absolutely convenient.

Cheers

rick.ca:

--- Quote ---Of course not.
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Why not? If there's any point to linking the two fields, why shouldn't work both ways? If I'm sure my rating of a movie will remain unchanged, why would I bother watching it again. While I can understand why some would prefer not to reset the rating, doing so would be perfectly sensible behaviour.


--- Quote ---if you first decide to rate it you could automatically get "Seen" checked. Later you can add seen date, if you now it?
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There are currently 43 unseen and 702 seen movies in my database. If the seen flag is set without the date, I'm unlikely to find it unless I go looking for it. And I'm not very good at remembering to look for things I don't know I've forgotten. My memory is not so bad, however, that I'd fail to recognize one movie out of 43 is one I've recently seen—but forgot to set the date. This, in fact, is how the date seen and rating get recorded in most cases. Even if I know what I'm looking for, I'm finding the recently viewed movie in my list of unseen movies, and then recording the date. The alternate feature I suggested would ensure the rating and any other information related to the viewing of the movie gets recorded at the same time.


--- Quote ---I found this option in almost any movie manager I tried, and I found it absolutely convenient.
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It never occurred to me you were suggesting something you believed to be inconvenient. But the program is used by many people, not just you. I was only pointing out "...this would have to be an optional behaviour." I do, of course, think my idea is much better. But it, too, would be optional. ;)

buah:

It's hard for me to speak at theoretical level on this issue, because I used such an option a lot, so I'm speaking upon experience I got. And now, I use PVD without it, and I don't mind it at all. As I emphasized, it would be convenient to have it in PVD, nothing more or less. That's why I entitled this topic "Minor..."

The idea wasn't mine, and the fact it was implemented in almost any movie manager could imply that it is used by significant number of users. Anyway, I don't mind if it would have to be even optional. That option would be checked in in my personal preferences, just like "Allow editing Rating in View mode" is, for instance.

Cheers

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