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Being Able To Edit Each Season Info Instead of Entire Series

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buah:

--- Quote ---It doesn't have to be automatically filled in by a new search for the entire series it could be blank and the user could find all the information on their own and put in the information like the actors, duration of entire season, etc.

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I agree. Very often, when clicking on a season and getting a blank page in a right frame, in a split second I get a glance:"Geez, something went wrong, no data!"

And as the years go passing by, my heart ain't getting stronger... ;)

rick.ca:

--- Quote from: TBach1979 on April 19, 2010, 07:45:31 pm ---It is not unique fields it is all the same fields that are used for every movie.
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They have to be "unique" if you expect to be able to record information in them. Yes, I understand all the fields in the database could be duplicated for seasons, but that's not practical—for the reasons I stated.

buah:

--- Quote from: rick.ca on April 19, 2010, 07:36:50 pm ---Otherwise, unique season records should be restricted to those that are/must be unique—poster, description (for a season synopsis), comments...

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It sounds reasonable. It should be identified and defined somehow visually.


--- Quote from: rick.ca on April 19, 2010, 07:36:50 pm ---For example, is it necessary to be able to rate a season?

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Definitely! I hate all second half sitcom seasons. They all become Macbeth, Hamlet, Mar Adentro, almost ancient Greek tragedies. ;D

nostra:
Actually, I thought of smth like "combined details" on IMDB with a possibility to edit fields settings the values for all episodes in a season, so there will be no need to add an extra record to the database...

rick.ca:
I think the minimum that should be provided are the small number of fields for information unique to each season—poster, synopsis, comments and (maybe) rating. All these would be entered manually and would not be searchable, sortable or groupable. If anything beyond that is to be considered, it should probably be calculated fields. Some might simply be equal to a corresponding series field (e.g., Genre), some would be the range that exists in the episodes (e.g., Release date and Year), an average (e.g., rating) or an aggregation (e.g., credits). These have the advantages of not requiring any maintenance, being informative in their own right, and not making the database more complicated by introducing more relations.


--- Quote ---Actually, I thought of smth like "combined details" on IMDB with a possibility to edit fields settings the values for all episodes in a season, so there will be no need to add an extra record to the database.
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This sounds very much like the second part of my suggestion, although I'm not sure what you mean by "with a possibility to edit fields settings..." And I think the first part is important—at least the ability to add a poster and some kind of unique description.

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