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<blockquote data-quote="wayloncovil" data-source="post: 1196456" data-attributes="member: 154380">Lehmden,Looking forward to seeing how things develop. Thank you for your efforts. They are much appreciated.A couple of thoughts based on my understanding of Schedules Direct...With Schedules Direct, each Series has it's own unique numeric code. Each episode also has it's own numeric code. It also has a new flag for the first time airing of shows.Some scheduling engines will record based on key words in the title and episode field. The more accurate way of ensuring that all items from a series are by using the numeric values of Shows and Episodes. This is one of the main reasons Schedules Direct can add value to users over other methods of grabbing data.Now I don't know if other scheduling services provide this type of data but I wanted to point this out.Also, the most modern way to pull data from Schedules Direct is using REST to grab JSON data.I wanted to point this out is case it makes sense to think about these things in your development.I also don't know if the MP2 database can hold these specific values but that would be a factor.Thanks again for all you do.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wayloncovil, post: 1196456, member: 154380"] Lehmden, Looking forward to seeing how things develop. Thank you for your efforts. They are much appreciated. A couple of thoughts based on my understanding of Schedules Direct... With Schedules Direct, each Series has it's own unique numeric code. Each episode also has it's own numeric code. It also has a new flag for the first time airing of shows. Some scheduling engines will record based on key words in the title and episode field. The more accurate way of ensuring that all items from a series are by using the numeric values of Shows and Episodes. This is one of the main reasons Schedules Direct can add value to users over other methods of grabbing data. Now I don't know if other scheduling services provide this type of data but I wanted to point this out. Also, the most modern way to pull data from Schedules Direct is using REST to grab JSON data. I wanted to point this out is case it makes sense to think about these things in your development. I also don't know if the MP2 database can hold these specific values but that would be a factor. Thanks again for all you do. [/QUOTE]

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