Today I was updating my custom application to extract statistics from my collection based on the XML export. (Mainly amount of money spent per month). So I was testing with a small XML from a test collection I made in the past. In this case it is useful to test my changes with a small XML file.
So I added a couple of box sets to this test collection. Purely by accident I noticed that the box sets in my Main collection are updated too. In this case I noticed purchase price, date and store are overwritten in the main collection when I added the same box set to another collection. So I messed up my main entries. I was able to correct this because I did not sync to my mobile phone yet. This should in my opinion never happen.
Reproduction path:
Create 2 collections: Test and Test 2
Go to Collection: Test
Add for example box set: 7333018038011
Add as 2 seperate entries
Not sure if it is relevant (did not test that), but in my prefill screen I have Purchase Store and Purchase Price
Edit the box set of this movie and give the box set a purchase price of 10 euro and date 01-01-2020 and store bol.com
This does not only happen between different collection, but also within the same collection (add the same box set to the same collection again). So you are unable to add the same box set twice. In case you want to add it again because you have a duplicate in a different condition, you are unable to do so.
I assume you also lose all other box set information if you made modifications like covers and title. However I did not test this.
I did not find any issues with the movies itself within the box set. Only with the box sets itself. Also no issue with single movie entries.
To wrap up:
Unable to add the same box set (same barcode) more than once.
They are sort of merged into each other, even between different collections
Adding the same box set again should never overwrite already existing data
You are able to add the same movie (same barcode) more than once.
I think box sets should behave the same as single movie entries. Do not let them influence each other and allow to have the same box set more than once. Luckily I noticed the problem in time, otherwise I lost data.
This has been fixed as of this morning, it was reported about a month ago for the first time, but was apparently broken for way longer already. Not sure how it never got noticed.
I think that what we fixed solves what you are seeing?
I checked again and it is now sort of fixed but still broken. This time a new box set is created with the addition of (1) even if it is in a different collection. This is not really an issue. However if you follow the following steps something weird happens:
Add 7333018038011 to Collection 1 as separate entries
Give the box set a price, store and date
Add 7333018038011 to Collection 2 as separate entries
Second collection now looks like this with the addition of (1) in the box set title.
Now rename the box set from 28 Years Later (1) to 28 Years Later and Save
Immediately click on the edit button for the box set again. Now the box set appears to have got the date, price and store you entered in Collection 1. Donât save, cancel
In the edit screen of the movie: save to close
The movie is added to the boxset in collection 1, this image is from the boxset in collection 2. So you see it in collection 1 as well:
The other movie that was part of the box set in collection 2 is now the only movie left (makes sense if the other movie is now part of the other box set:
Now open the edit screen of this movie that is now the single entry in this box set
Edit the box set and it shows the details of the box set that is in collection 1, now this box set also shows the price, date en store you entered in collection 1:
I am not 100% sure, but if you directly edit the box set without going through the movie edit screen this does not happen. When you edit the movies and save them, they are added to the other box set.
If you want to movie the movie back to the other box set again this is not possible:
I assume this all goes wrong because the box set has no id and the name of the box set is the identifier if I look at the html for this list.
2 suggestions:
make it all work
in case 1 is not feasable: block dublicate box set names even if they are in different collection. Give an error dialog or something to tell it is not allowed to have duplicate names.
