There is a recurring question at my end. When I selected a movie I want to quickly know what other movies I have with the same Actor or from the same Director. An actor/actrice suddenly stands out in a movie, so I want to see if I have more movies with the same actor. The Mobile already has a function for this to click on the actors name (but the whole feature doesn’t work properly on my device, I will report an issue about this separately). The Web is lacking this feature (If I am not mistaken).
Yes, I could go to the Actor filter and fill in the Actors name. But this is slow and manual.
For now I added this feature to the Web application myself to see if the solution I had in mind actually is workable. My suggestion:
Now I can quickly go from one movie to another just by clicking on the Actor / Director (did not build it for Director yet).
Similarly I think it is useful to have a similar solution for other fields like in the Edition Details.
Another case I have: I would like to link one or more movies to each other. For example I want to link all ‘Alex Cross‘ movies, or link movies to each other that occur in the same period like ‘the events or period around Martin Luther King‘ or ‘World War I‘. I think Tags are the best solution for this. But there is no way to quickly filter on the tags. So I did a similar thing:
@CLZ_AJ , Nice to see it is on your list , so I won’t improve my solution yet and wait for something from you guys.
Yes Box Sets is also something that I use. But it doesn’t feel right in many cases. Where I do use it: if the movies belong to each other, like the 3 movies from the Three Flavours Cornetto**-trilogie** where the movies have 3 different titles that cannot be alphabetically ordered.
But this fails when a movie is already part of a box set, I cannot assign it to a second box set.
It doesn’t feel right when the movies are only held together by a Theme or Time period but are otherwise unrelated. What makes sense:
The 2 movies All Quite on the Western Front and 1917 are all adaptations of the same novel.
But the movie Atonement is not. So Tagging them sounds more correct then putting the in a box set.
With Tags you could link it to other movies as well, multi dimensional.
Got a mail from you guys with some great news. It is implemented !
Works great. It is nice the selection doesn’t get lost after removing the filter.
Feature request to make it even more useful: support this for the Edition Fields (less important I think) and Custom Fields.
Just deleted my own solution because this works way better. Although in my implementation I also applied the filters in the Folder selections. So you can easy go to another value for the same field, but that is not so important. This works nicely
When we built this feature we’ve had a couple of meetings on which fields users would really use this and would find it helpful. We are keeping track of what fields are requested (we don’t want to just “do all” because it would be a crazy amount of hyperlinks (moving your mouse over movie details would feel like it lights up like christmas!).
Custom Fields was also part of that discussion and we decided against it for release, but we are planning (we had a couple of requests) to add them too.
Which edition fields would you use, and would you really use that? Like, you’re randomly looking at Indiana Jones, you see that it has Packaging: HD Case, would you say “ooooh what other movies do I have in an HD Case” ? (this is how we went through the fields).
Note that it will only work on certain types of fields (the actual Edition field is a free text field, and this can’t work on that I’m afraid)
Can you explain better? I don’t understand this one.
If you foldergroup on for instance “Actor”, and you would click an actor link in a details panel, it would simply go to that folder and select it (not filter).
If you foldergroup on for instance “Format” and you would click an actor link in a details panel, it would filter down both folders and movies to any movie/format containing that actor.
Ah you want the actual “folder” panel to switch to that field to folder on tags…
We (indeed) definitely do not want that. We see that users do not want to switch folders ever at all (I’m with you, this is powerful if you often switch folders based on how you want to dive into your collection). Introducing this feature we’re already seeing quite a few very happy emails from users (who never ever switch folders//don’t even know they can) who are now finally unlocking full potential of their database.
Switching the folder field would most likely bring them into a confusion we can’t get them out of.
But, we can always throw this request on a “make it a setting!” pile
Thanks for clearing up what you meant!
I think it is fine the way it currently is.
Good!
This is indeed completely intended.
If you are foldering on Tags, it will “click on that tags folder” in your folder list. And it won’t filter down. This is logical and useful, because the result (in your list panel) is exactly the movies that have that filter.
If you are foldering on Actor, it will keep your tags folders, and “filter the collection” to only show movies by that tag (and then you need the blue pill to cancel the filter).
, so I won’t improve my solution yet and wait for something from you guys.
