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| Registered: July 1, 2007 |  Posts: 10 |
| | Posted: | | | | I may not be searching enough (apologies in advance)... searching for "location filter" and a few other combinations didn't help much.
I'm loading my dvd collection into storage units due to too much shelf space and I'm tired of knocking over piles of dvd's. The storage units are called 'pods' made by Atlantic Inc. Cheap and decent looking enough for what I want.
I'd like to quickly view everthing in one location - a "show me all in pod01" filter, or all in pod02, etc... but can't find a filter for it. Partially I just want to be able to do a quick check to see if I entered all the slots correctly. I'll track down and customize a report for this, but I'd like to filter if possible on screen. Is this in there and I'm missing it, or do I need to set a flag for it?
I used 2.4 for quite awhile, abandoned it last year (abondoned all tracking for that matter, and then tried IMDB for a bit) - and just bought 3.0 over the weekend. Love the new version so far.
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 5,459 |
| | Posted: | | | | Not at the moment I believe, but I think it's been asked for so hopefully it might turn up in a future release!  |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 2,692 |
| | Posted: | | | | you can sort by location field so that would tell you if you had entered all the numbers. | | | | Paul |
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| Registered: June 9, 2007 | | Posts: 1,208 |
| | Posted: | | | | You could use the tags to identify which films are in each pod then filter by that. Then use the location column to see where exactly each film is in each pod.
How many films does each pod hold?
Edit: Actually I would like to see location search implemented. Just realised that if a title has more than one disc (and like me you store your discs in a DJ style box) only the first disc would show up when sorting by location. So if I found an empty sleeve and wanted to know what title was supposed to be in it I wouldnt be able to find out without clicking on each title with multiple discs. | | | | Last edited: by MarEll |
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| Registered: June 22, 2007 | | Posts: 42 |
| | Posted: | | | | i had a nice reply to this but it got lost. oh well one more time, this time |
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| Registered: May 10, 2007 | | Posts: 10 |
| | Posted: | | | | I think Tags is the easiest way to go
Make a Tag: Pod -1. Check that tag for each dvd which will go in pod -1. Now just filter the tags and all will show up in one viewable box,
I tag all my unwatched this way… how I keep track.
The Location and Slot feature will work also… but it’d more involved… and you will have to flag the ones I your pods, else you wont be able to tell which movies are separate from the rest of your collection. |
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| Registered: July 1, 2007 | | Posts: 10 |
| | Posted: | | | | Thanks for the ideas. Tags is probably what I'll end up with. Sorting by location does help, but not exact. I'll let you know what I end up doing (need a bit of free time... )
MarEll... You asked about the pod. They hold 60 discs by the edge.
Amazon has a blue one on their site with a decently sized picture: http://www.amazon.com/Atlantic-POD60C72-CD-Pod/dp/B00009LZNK/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-0041842-7810263?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1183464703&sr=8-1
I've bought completely white ones at Walmart for about $15 each. They come in all black as well. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 2,692 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Paulfsimmel: Quote:
I tag all my unwatched this way… how I keep track.
why not just use the watched by feature? then you can see which are unwatched etc rather than using a tag | | | | Paul |
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| Registered: June 9, 2007 | | Posts: 1,208 |
| | Posted: | | | | Just thought actually, you could have the location field as pod A, pod B etc then the slot field as the index number (1-60). Just tried it on a few titles and when I sort by location it looks sorta like this.
title............................location
12 monkeys.................Pod A:1
Flesh Gordon............... Pod A:2
Alien...........................Pod B:1 etc
Would save you using the filters every time you wanted to see each pod and you could use the pods own index numbers.
I use the location field in a similar way, location- 'A108:' Slot- 'A' where the letter in location tells me which box the disc is in and the slot letter is reserved for one of my boxes which has 2 pockets for each index #. | | | | Last edited: by MarEll |
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| Registered: June 22, 2007 | | Posts: 42 |
| | Posted: | | | | i responded to this in another path: saving to excel
http://www.invelos.com/Forums.aspx?task=viewtopic&topicID=176785
with how to format report if you do this. |
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| Registered: July 1, 2007 | | Posts: 10 |
| | Posted: | | | | MarEll.... I have the first pod into Profiler exactly as you described... location is pod 01, and slot is the slot number. When I sorted the list by location it did group them altogether. I also tried a few downloaded reports which worked nicely. lancedvd - I saw your post in the Excel topic this morning. Good stuff. (btw, you need to add a disc to the dvd in edit dvd before you can add location and slot in personal info. I had to add discs to about 10 of my dvd's in my first 60 that I added location/slot info for.) I exported everything to XML and location / slot is in there. I think I'll also try the csv plugin - which would make things a lot simpler than XML for a simple list. Unfortunately - I'm at work at the moment so can't tinker with anything. Back to fixing EDI problems in SAP... |
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