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How do I deal with long-running documentary series?
buah:
--- Quote from: Gaco on May 06, 2010, 06:28:05 pm ---That's not the problem. Problem is, Horizon would show up in every search without showing which episodes actually had the tags/categories in question!
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1. If you then apply advanced search on a specific category, you'll get episodes with that category.
--- Quote --- I will just add each Horizon episodes as single movie entities anyway instead of episode in a series.
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2. Make a custom list field "Series", and assign to each episode containing series name entered in "Series" field, and you'll get what you need.
nostra:
I was too lazy to read the whole topic, but do you have the "Filter episodes" option checked in Tools -> Preferences -> Movies?
Gaco:
--- Quote from: buah on May 06, 2010, 07:49:04 pm ---
--- Quote from: Gaco on May 06, 2010, 06:28:05 pm ---That's not the problem. Problem is, Horizon would show up in every search without showing which episodes actually had the tags/categories in question!
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1. If you then apply advanced search on a specific category, you'll get episodes with that category.
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Ok that's always something.. but actually the grouping by category is more of a problem
--- Quote from: buah on May 06, 2010, 07:49:04 pm ---2. Make a custom list field "Series", and assign to each episode containing series name entered in "Series" field, and you'll get what you need.
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I'm not sure what you mean, i don't see anywhere to create "custom list fields"? But in any case, I don't see that this should put episodes together with their corresponding groups when viewing by group (i.e. tree view)?
--- Quote from: nostra on May 06, 2010, 10:00:07 pm ---I was too lazy to read the whole topic, but do you have the "Filter episodes" option checked in Tools -> Preferences -> Movies?
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Yes it is checked. The short story of the topic is this:
Background: IMDB is treating some very long series of documentaries (example: BBC Horizon, spanning a wide range of subjects) as a TV series with episodes, not individual movies. This is a problem in PVD because they don't necessarily share the same genre and are really independent documentary movies, just as my ratings are very different for each. I use "categories" to designate the sub-genre of the documentary films in my PVD. So when right-clicking and choosing "view by category" all the individual episodes from Horizon doesn't come out into the various categories, but stay under the same entry, namely Horizon. No matter which "View by..."I use, the episodes doesn't really show up in the right place (although in the case of search apparently you can make an advanced search among some specific category, though this doesn't solve the big problem).
Best solution right now: Therefore I have chosen to not import the documentary films directly via IMDB but just add them as seperate entries write in some info about them manually.
What I need: Although each documentary in the Horizon series can't be found in a search on IMBD because it's listed as an EPISODE for Horizon (1964), it does have a direct IMDB link. I need a way to manually force import IMDB info into an entry from a IMDB url (such as http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1087881/). IMDB episode webpages seems to share the same basic layout and info representations as IMDB move webpages, so it shouldn't be any trouble at all to make? :)
buah:
1. What I meant was: assign every unique episode category to a containing series. Group by category. Then apply Advanced search on a specific category. You'll get episodes only of that specific category.
2. What I meant was: in Preferences-Custom items make a custom field of type "Select list" and name it "Series". If you decide to enter episodes as separate movie entries, and you're willing to manually enter every url, ensure that you set up IMDb plugin to over-wright Original Title, click Movie-New, than paste IMDb url in URL field (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1087881/ in this particular case), type "1", for instance, in Original title field, assign desired category to an episode in "Category" multi-select list field, type series name in "Series" field (Horizon, in this particular case) and press Import from IMDb button. You'll get episode displayed as a movie entry.
In Tools-Preferences-Movie-Tree View Nodes delete if any node. Then add Category, then add Series node. Click OK. Click View-Tree view (I'd avoid "Group by" command in this case). You'll get episodes sorted by category, sub-sorted by series.
Science
--- Horizon
---- No Ordinary Genius, Part One
This is what I would do.
nostra:
--- Quote ---I need a way to manually force import IMDB info into an entry from a IMDB url (such as http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1087881/). IMDB episode webpages seems to share the same basic layout and info representations as IMDB move webpages, so it shouldn't be any trouble at all to make? Smiley
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It should work if you add a movie give it a title and paste the right URL into the URL field, apply changes and run the IMDB plugin.
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