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<blockquote data-quote="clahti" data-source="post: 393599" data-attributes="member: 84785">I also just setup the development environment to poke around some ideas on this as well.&nbsp; My feeling is that we need another &quot;view&quot; or improve the List View for this functionality.&nbsp; This would easily be accomplished by <ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Adding a &quot;Collection&quot; field to the database</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Adding UI functionality to assign Collection to movies as desired</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">movies that belong to the same Collection appear as a folder in list view</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">selecting the folder would then list the movies in that Collection</li>
</ul>You could even use icon/filmstrip view for this purpose, just have a generic &quot;cover&quot; that when selected displays only that Collection.&nbsp; Movies that have no Collection value would just appear after all of the Collection folders like a pseudo filesystem view.&nbsp; This would work well with the filtering as well, so for example lets say you have all of your bond flicks in a Collection called &quot;James Bond 007&quot;.&nbsp; You then filter your movies by &quot;Action and Adventure&quot; genre.&nbsp; The resulting display would show a folder called &quot;James Bond 007 Collection&quot; because these movies are part of this genre, followed by all other movies in that genre that are not part of a collection.&nbsp; To make sure we get proper database normalization I would add a pane to the config dialog where you can add your desired Collection strings, then on the Movie Details pane have a drop list so you can select a Collection or leave this blank/unselected for the movie by default.&nbsp; Does this make sense?&nbsp; Any other ideas?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="clahti, post: 393599, member: 84785"] I also just setup the development environment to poke around some ideas on this as well. My feeling is that we need another "view" or improve the List View for this functionality. This would easily be accomplished by [LIST] [*]Adding a "Collection" field to the database [*]Adding UI functionality to assign Collection to movies as desired [*]movies that belong to the same Collection appear as a folder in list view [*]selecting the folder would then list the movies in that Collection [/LIST] You could even use icon/filmstrip view for this purpose, just have a generic "cover" that when selected displays only that Collection. Movies that have no Collection value would just appear after all of the Collection folders like a pseudo filesystem view. This would work well with the filtering as well, so for example lets say you have all of your bond flicks in a Collection called "James Bond 007". You then filter your movies by "Action and Adventure" genre. The resulting display would show a folder called "James Bond 007 Collection" because these movies are part of this genre, followed by all other movies in that genre that are not part of a collection. To make sure we get proper database normalization I would add a pane to the config dialog where you can add your desired Collection strings, then on the Movie Details pane have a drop list so you can select a Collection or leave this blank/unselected for the movie by default. Does this make sense? Any other ideas? [/QUOTE]

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