Got a bit inspired to add to my User Defined Fields. The 1st 4 I have had on there for some years. Had a bolt of inspiration for some new ones. Tell me what you think.
Format Owned, Seen It and Viewing Date are all built in to Movie Collector.
The Web and Mobile versions now include a Watch History which include “Where Watched”, which auto-generates the Watch Count, and could be used to include your fields “Home Media Format Viewed Previously” and “Cinema”.
I would recommend that you review the Web and Mobile versions, since they seem to do what you want, but in a more sophisticated and flexible way
Format Owned, Seen It and Viewing Date are all built in to Movie Collector. - Are for the previous formats that I have owned and viewed the movie on.
“Where Watched” to me says the location I watched that particular version of subjected article. As in the physical movie that I own that I have catalogued. I have always used this section to indicate my views of that film in that format per the attached. I don’’t see how mixing my previous views in other formats with the article in question makes sense, as the fields and the headings are all centred around the particular article, not a broad overview of all manners of viewing. I’m sorry but your answer seems to be a simplification of sorts that doesn’t really answer my need here.
I don’t understand your original question. You want to know what we think, without giving us the information about how you are using these new fields.
I think that what you are doing is not something that I would want to do, but if it suits your purposes then that’s fine.
I guess my original intent was to present the way I feel the information should be presented, especially where it concerns viewing the movie through other mediums and formats. The catch all approach that seems to be the method here just doesn’t work for me. This isn’t the only part where this is employed and I used the user defined fields as way to get around them. If that’s the approach you guys are happy to employ then that’s fine, but I feel like you should afford the users to have some access to customisation on the web and the app so as to enable us to show information how we feel it should be shown. I get that maybe how I have done it is a little clunky and messy, but there should be some compromise that suits everyone.
Movie Collector is really DVD/Blu Ray Collector, which is how I used it at first.
Nowadays I use it as Movie Collector, that is every time I see a movie, whether on TV, Cinema, Streaming, Digital Download or physical media, I add the movie to my database.
Because of the way I now use it, I reassign fields associated with physical media for other purposes (eg I use the Region field to indicate which “greatest movies” lists the movie appears in).
This is what I want to do, and although this is not the way the product was designed, it works just fine for me.
Your requirements are different, but I think you need to analyse them carefully. For example you have “Adaption Of” with the data set to “Novel”. This is a statement of fact, but is it a useful database field? , ie do you need to group all novels together (in which case it might be a database field) or do you merely need to note the fact, in which case this info could be stored in the Notes field. Storing it in a UDF suits you, but I don’t think many people would want that information.
If you want changes to the system you need to explain clearly what you want to achieve so that others might be able to suggest things. But changes will only be made to the software if you can convince the Clz team that they are a good idea and will improve the product.
You should also bear in mind that development on the Windows version of the product has ceased, so no changes will be made here, but only to the Web product (which currently does not have UDFs, though will do next year). So you really ought to convert to that if you want to suggest improvements.
Yeah I believe it worthy enough to be there especially if the the proper credit was correctly added to the selection of crew options instead of just being made to be added as writer. Yes, there is some overlap to this where the writer of the source is the writer of the movie, but for the rest, this distinction should be made, and then the original material can be the reference for that.