Favorites Flag (1 Viewer)

[fforde]

Started on: 2006-06-28
last update: 2006-06-28

Summary:
Add a favorites flag to the DB that is editable via the GUI similar to the existing isWatched flag. This would allow a new "Favorites" view.

Description:
So I have a lot of videos managed by MediaPortal and even sorting by Genre, things can get a bit unweildy. So I am suggesting an added flag similar to the existing "watched" flag that the user could manually trigger through an onscreen menu (possible the IMDB/info screen like the watched flag currently). A new view could then be added (which would require no coding effort) to filter videos based on if they had been flagged as a favorite.

Any takers? What do you guys think? I don't think it would be very hard to implement. At first it could even just be only modifiable via the config screen.

 

[fforde]

I have some experience with C# and database work so I wouldn't mind actually look at the code and trying to make a patch for this, but what are the policies for database changes and upgrades? Are DB changes part of grander project timeline or can changes be made more freely?

 

[tomtom21000]

* I think it is possible to create video playlists. that might cover your purpose, too.
* Maybe look at the stars rating for music. Might give you more options than a flag, which is binary (favourite/no favourite)

db changes are sensible for sure. but as a patch why not, give it a shot.

tomtom

 

[bermag]

I was going to make a similar suggestion. What I would like to have is some user defined fields so you can group and sort your films on some own definitions. Genre is coming from IMDB (could use that but would like to keep their definitions as well as my own categories).

The only way (AFAIK but I am new to MP) to group films into folders is to either use share view (low WAF on that one lol) or to use a view like genre which group films. But I would like my own groups/folders. For example I want one folder for my kids films and another for my own films. Or one folder for each TV serie.

A separate "favourite" flag might be a good option, but it could also be taken care by a more generic solution with "user defined" key words.

The easy solution is to just add another field to the film for a user defined "tag" for each film and a table with keywords (using a combobox to select valid choices. Setup table with keywords in setup). A 1:1 relation.

A bit more complex solution which would open up a lot of new options (but for individual use ort for general use "in-the-box") is to allow the use of multiple tags for each film. That way you could for example have one tag for my folder structure above, another one for "media quality" (for example "HDTV", "DVD", "Low quality rips" etc) a third might be "Storage" (like online, off-line media etc).

But probably the easiest (and which would be enough for most people) is to have one or a few fixed fields (one favourite flag and another user defined tag).

As a first strep it would be enough to add the fields to the database and being able to enter data in the setup dialog (and of course allowing views to be defined for the new fields). But in the end you shoudl of course be able to enter this directly in "My videos".

 

[mzemina]

User groups is an excellent suggestion!