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<blockquote data-quote="Guzzi" data-source="post: 779824" data-attributes="member: 55213">AW: Server database as film database?Hi hafblade,since you have posted in MyFilms forum, I will comment at this as well.In general, I fully agree with you - I personally am also a &quot;network user&quot; and have multiple clients - so yes, such a setup is what I am after too ;-)Lehmden already mentioned, why this is not implemented in Mediaportal 1.x - and something like that will come with MP2.Due to this, we made this intermediate solution for MyFilms - including basic support for &quot;userprofiles&quot; for watched status.In MyFilms indeed there is a layer, that is currently &quot;connecting&quot; to the XML files - and that one could also connect to an SQL server of TV server. But MyFIlms is focused on end user databases - like Ant Movie Catalog - and keeping the &quot;storage&quot; in native XML allows to use both - the management application and MyFilms - on the same data. If I would import the data into another database, the user would loose the 2-way interoperability (similar to the external catalogs like Xtreme moviemanager, that only support import to myfilms).Changing the architecture in such a way was already proposed by some users - in a way, that myfilms uses it's own &quot;proprietary&quot; storage (that could be centrally on a server) and only interact via input/output filters with the respective external catalogs.That is a nice idea, but quite a redesign/rewrite of a lot of parts - so unless there would be more helping hands, I think we have to live with it &quot;as is&quot; for now. Further, it would not make much sense implementing that for a single plugin, when the frame work will be available in MP2 and could be used for such use case scenario.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Guzzi, post: 779824, member: 55213"] [b]AW: Server database as film database?[/b] Hi hafblade, since you have posted in MyFilms forum, I will comment at this as well. In general, I fully agree with you - I personally am also a "network user" and have multiple clients - so yes, such a setup is what I am after too ;-) Lehmden already mentioned, why this is not implemented in Mediaportal 1.x - and something like that will come with MP2. Due to this, we made this intermediate solution for MyFilms - including basic support for "userprofiles" for watched status. In MyFilms indeed there is a layer, that is currently "connecting" to the XML files - and that one could also connect to an SQL server of TV server. But MyFIlms is focused on end user databases - like Ant Movie Catalog - and keeping the "storage" in native XML allows to use both - the management application and MyFilms - on the same data. If I would import the data into another database, the user would loose the 2-way interoperability (similar to the external catalogs like Xtreme moviemanager, that only support import to myfilms). Changing the architecture in such a way was already proposed by some users - in a way, that myfilms uses it's own "proprietary" storage (that could be centrally on a server) and only interact via input/output filters with the respective external catalogs. That is a nice idea, but quite a redesign/rewrite of a lot of parts - so unless there would be more helping hands, I think we have to live with it "as is" for now. Further, it would not make much sense implementing that for a single plugin, when the frame work will be available in MP2 and could be used for such use case scenario. [/QUOTE]

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