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<blockquote data-quote="The3" data-source="post: 1048215" data-attributes="member: 126914">Thanks for the suggestion, Edalex &amp; RoChess. The manual importing process is no big deal, as I already have to do that with some of my other (old/obscure) TV shows.As for views, I actually played around with them a bit in my previous attempt to get everything to &quot;play nicely&quot; together. It's definitely powerful, but not really what I'm looking for per se. My main issue with it, from a user experience perspective (I can't help it, I'm a UX researcher/designer!), is the process of switching views. The fact that you have to go into TV Series from the main menu, then move into the into the menu, choose the &quot;change view&quot; option, select the view you want to switch to, and then back out of the menu is simply tedious in the long run. That's a five step interaction, instead of the one step of being able to directly access a separate plugin from the main menu. Before people jump on me for saying that, I know it might come across as a bit lazy <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> . But when you think about long-term use, being able to reduce user burden by 80% is a pretty big prospect.Now, if it were possible to put shortcuts on the main menu of MediaPortal that jumped directly to a given view within TV Series......that would be a bit of a holy grail, as it would make the entire point I made above moot!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The3, post: 1048215, member: 126914"] Thanks for the suggestion, Edalex & RoChess. The manual importing process is no big deal, as I already have to do that with some of my other (old/obscure) TV shows. As for views, I actually played around with them a bit in my previous attempt to get everything to "play nicely" together. It's definitely powerful, but not really what I'm looking for per se. My main issue with it, from a user experience perspective (I can't help it, I'm a UX researcher/designer!), is the process of switching views. The fact that you have to go into TV Series from the main menu, then move into the into the menu, choose the "change view" option, select the view you want to switch to, and then back out of the menu is simply tedious in the long run. That's a five step interaction, instead of the one step of being able to directly access a separate plugin from the main menu. Before people jump on me for saying that, I know it might come across as a bit lazy ;) . But when you think about long-term use, being able to reduce user burden by 80% is a pretty big prospect. Now, if it were possible to put shortcuts on the main menu of MediaPortal that jumped directly to a given view within TV Series......that would be a bit of a holy grail, as it would make the entire point I made above moot! [/QUOTE]

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