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Question 1 :

When i add a box set to my collection DVD Profilier assigns a number to it. Then i add the titles in the box set ie:

An officer and a gentleman  ( number assigned to title )
Runaway Bride                  ( Number assigned to title )
Primal Fear                        ( Number assigned to title )

Now i see i have added 3 different titles to my collection yet my DVD totals go up 4 and i've only
added 3 titles. I've tried removing the number when adding the box set and then adding titles included
in the box set but it still get 1 more DVD added to my collection than i really have. Is there a way around this?

The "Total DVDs" figure that you see in the program is actually the number of profiles you have. There's a profile for the box and a profile for each of the 3 DVDs in the box. What you can do is set the box to not have a number. That way, your largest numbered item gives you the number of DVDs you have, if you choose to count that way. For instance, I have 3,096 profiles in my Owned collection, but my largest collection number is 2,847; therefore, I consider my collection to consist of 2,847 titles which utilize 3,096 profiles.

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I've seen the term Parent and children used alot and i'm fairly sure what it means but just to clairify.
My box set contains 3 different titles, this is the Parent and the 3 titles in the box set are the children ?

Parent refers to the box. Children refers to the individual titles within the box.

When i said " I've tried removing the number when adding the box set " that is what I was trying to say. I put a tick in check box " NONE " to the right of where the collection number would go. When i did that i still saw my total dvds go up 1 more than what it should have.

The nightmare on Elm Street is 1490 my higest numbered profile and i added one double feature dvd and even tried to assign each title a same collection number and removing the collection number for the parent and my Total DVDs still went from 1490 to 1493


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Didn't expect any responses at this hour. Thanks for all the help everyone i'm sure i get it worked
out. It's 4:45 AM here i'll try tommorow

The term Total DVDs that the program uses is actually a misnomer, it should read Total Profiles, that is what is being counted.

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m.cellophane :

Your "Total DVDs" is going higher than you collection numbers because you don't assign
any collection numbers to your parent profiles

Correct.

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but by not assigning a collection number to your parent doesn't reduce your "Total DVDs"  ( Total Profiles ) by one.

Correct. Every profile, numbered or unnumbered, are all included in the figure for "Total DVDs". As a few of us have mentioned, the "Total DVDs" figure is really a count of the number of profiles you have. Since a parent profile is a profile, it's included in the count. If you don't number it, it still doesn't lower your "Total DVDs" figure, although your collection numbers will decrease.

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Try adding a bogus box set and you will see what you have assumed is not correct.

I understand. I think it's just that we might not be understanding each other.

one thing you can do to get an accurate count is use the tags.

a basic example is to set up a tag called box set. then set this tag on every profile that is a a parent in the box. now you can go to the tag page of filters and uncheck the box set tag. this will show only profiles that don't have this tag. the filtered # to the right of total dvds will now show your actual total because this number would exclude all the profiles not showing.

you can set up a tag and do the reverse for TV box sets to have them show as a single profile as apposed to one per disc.

The tags I use for this are a bit more complex, I have Box Set, TV Box, and then one for the box sets that are multiple movies per disc. These each have child tags that tells me if that particular profile is a box, a movie, or a bonus disc. This way i can filter and get counts in various ways.

-Agrare

Here are my tages relating to box sets



I can post examples of some profiles and how i tag them. but basically, any movie box set (Indiana Jones Collection for example) is tagged as a 'Movie Box Set' and the actual parent profile gets a Box tag. the 3 movies get the Movie tag and a disc of all bonus material gets a Bonus tag...i don't use the Disc tag and not exactly sure why I have that but must of had a reason when i set it up.

Tv series basically do the same thing as movies, the Episodes tag is essentially the same as the Movie tag. its for the child profiles...the disc is essentially the same thing. i do use it but the difference is hard to explain, it mainly stems from me not deciding if i want disc level profiles or not and keeping those seperate if i do. TV series have seperate tags from movies though so i can count a series or season as 1 and a 3 movie set as 3.

I then have the multi movie disc for those double/triple/quadruple features. this is basically because depending on my reason for counting i either count these as 1 for all the movies or as 2/3/4 (one for each movie).

I then have a saved filter set that will filter it down to each tv show as 1 and movie box sets as number of movies. and then i change the multi movie disc to how i want at that time. Also buy using the child tags, i can filter out all my tv box sets or all my movie box sets or even any box set. I probably need to figure out if i need or why i put a disc child under movie box set. and then maybe also tweak the tv tags to handle disc level/episode level profiles if i decide to go that route...but it works for me

as far as collection numbers, I have them numbered in shelf order (order i bought them, sequels get grouped with the first at the spot it was bought). I have set ranges that i use to also split out/order movies/tv/anime. Titles that are my girlfriends don't have a collection number (all movies are also tagged by owner). box sets and children currently share the same collection number

-Agrare

That's up to, Ken. He knows about it, whether or when he might do anything about it is up to him, all we can do is wait.

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That's up to, Ken. He knows about it, whether or when he might do anything about it is up to him, all we can do is wait.

I understand Plug-ins are software modules that add to the functionality of an application. Just wondering if a Plug-in could handle adding an option to omit a profile from the Totals. I don't really care about the "Total DVDs" description now that i understand what it actually is.