Hi Vlad, Hi all,

Sorry to post everything here, but the limit between a bug and an enhancement is not always obvious. So, here is all I discovered in the past few months :

# 1
The loan manager should not interfere with the film location as changing a location is not necessarily a loan. Problems are :
- looking at the loan history is a real waste of time : hundreds of mostly fake entries in which you go "fishing" for real loans
- if you did not check "Automatically set return when changing location of the movie" in the options and do not update the loan manager every time you move an edition, loan or not (not easy considering the number of entries in the list), on some occasions you can't return the movie where it belongs, the update being ignored over and over
- I already erased twice everything because of the previous problem and had to re-input all locations (I have about 1000 films) because if you delete the entries in the loan manager, you lose the regular location of the film
- although the loan manager seems to work at edition level(?), in the list you don't know the edition concerned (did I lend the DVD or the Blu-ray?)
Thus the best would be to have 2 data at "Edition" level :
- the location, place where the edition is or would be if not lent, with no history necessary
- the loans (present location) if the edition is lent along with the present loan manager with only real loans that one should be able to query at global, film, edition and borrower's levels
- of course, the lists of locations and of borrowers should be split
- no automatic return is necessary anymore
- when showing an edition, both data should appear : regular location and possible borrower, if any.

#2
With no warning, creating or editing more than one edition of a film does not work. Only the last created or updated edition's data are saved (upon creation, other editions are created empty).
I know it is technically not easy to manage updating unknown number of repetitive items without automatic disk update after every item's update, but there is at least one partial solutions to avoid data loss : remember the first updated edition's # and, before any new update of another edition (a click on the other edition or on +), ask for a film update (and do not exit the update mode). Then remember the # of the new updated edition… Of course, when using the arrows to change the editions' order, change the saved edition's # accordingly.

#3
There should be an easy way to get the list of films that are not "in collection" and not in the wish list (wanted). I want to keep in the database the films I did not like and I have sold. They are no more for sale and the only way to see those films / editions is through the "Search" tab using status "In database" but there you get everything. When selling, I move the edition in a "Sold" location, but the location is not in the search criteria list. I found a workaround giving a "0000" disk #, but I would rather have kept the original disk #. There are lots of solutions to this problem (all of them would be the best) :
- add "Show not in collection" (and not wanted) at the end of the "Quickfilter" menu
- add a "Not in collection" (and not wanted) choice to the "Status" list of "Search" tab
- add the location to the search criteria in the "Search" tab
- add to the "Manage" menu a global "Status" choice (as compared to the temporary choice in the "Quickfilter") that would apply to all searches / lists

#4
In order to have the editions correctly sorted on the disk #, the disk # should be a numeric field.

#5
If you delete a picture from the display of the film (right click on it), it is erased from the disk but if you delete it using the "-" sign in the "Pictures" tab of the Edit mode, it is not erased from the disk as it should be. Very disturbing now because of the next problem.

#6
"Delete unused files" can't be used anymore as it deletes useful pictures, mainly pictures added with the latest release. This is apparently linked to the addition of the sort title and / or the processing of prefixes. The pictures are filed under the title (in local language) without prefix.
- in case you change the title, the pictures are not renamed and moved if necessary
- same if you update the list of prefixes in the Options
This can additionally lead to a real mess in the Covers libraries.
How do you decide that a picture is useful or not?
In my opinion, you should use the sort title and not the title without prefix to name the pictures as you can't input the full list of prefixes in the Options and sometimes have to modify the sort title manually. As an example, "Die" is a prefix in German but a verb in English, thus, for a German, assuming the Die hard series has not been given German titles, "Die Fälschung" and "Die hard" would be filed under "F" and "H" id "Die" is a prefix, or both under "D" if it is not, which is wrong on both occasions.
Upon modification of the sort title, all linked files should be renamed (possibly also renumbered) and relocated if necessary.

#7
Uppercase / lowercase and accented letters. In addition to removing the prefixes to create the sort title, could you as well :
- change all accented letters into normal letters (éèêëÊ… -> e, ñÑ ->n)
- change all uppercased letters to lowercase (save, possibly, for the first letter) or, alternatively, change all letters to uppercase.
Today, in order to have a correct sort order, we have to do it manually. In English, they have now the bad habit to uppercase the first letter of every word (the reason is still a mystery to me) and, in German, it is a rule to uppercase the first letter of all names, even common names.

#8
Pictures imported and numbered in ascendind sequence are displayed in reverse order, last imported first. I don't see any reason for that, so could you change the display sequence? I often take pictures from the film myself and I have today to import them from last to first.

#9
In the list of movie scripts, there is a button for Options. When I select IMDB and click the button, nothing happens.

#10
For some time, when downloading a film from IMDB, I get the English title instead of the original title and have to modify it manually. What has been changed?

#11
In the JeF-program interface, please give the possibility of not displaying the awards or show the awards at bottom.

#12
In the Maxez interface, as the back cover is shown at top right, remove it from the pictures at bottom.

#13
In the Maxez interface (and possibly other interface?), if you delete the front cover of a film in viewing mode :
- the film disappears from the list on the left, but fortunately reappears without image if you reinitialise the list
- the small image used for the list on the left is not deleted from the Thumbs library as it should and thus is not replaced by a possible new one : you have to delete it manually.

Thank you for your help and best regards.

Hi jc,
Why not just click the save button (floppy disk) after your edition updates are done (and before jumping to another edition) ?

I would suggest to use prefixing or suffixing with your disk# (this keeps the old disk#) : for instance, S-124 or 124-S for a sold disc 124. Then, using JeF's interface, you can easily list sold movies by selecting Movies having a disk# matching S-* or *-S (using Extra Queries : for details see M0116 here)

I don't agree. Users may want to have different numbering rules like, for instance, A-001 to A-999, B-001 to B-999 and so on. Alphanumeric field lets users do like they want.
I guess your aim is to have your disks always listed in numeric order : this can be achieved by using a formating disk# convention like : always 5 digits, so 00000-99999 will fit numeric order as if the field were numeric. JeF's interface provides tools for that (bulk initialize or n-digits re-formatting and even auto-increment at movie creation time).

Strange... works well for me... please make sure you have the latest version of script.

Go to options page (checked paper icon), click 'script options' link to get interface options dialog, click Movies button, then uncheck 'Movie awards'


JeF

After all received answers and some bugs corrected, here is my new, much shorter, list :

# 1
The loan manager should not interfere with the film location as changing a location is not necessarily a loan. Problems are :
- looking at the loan history is a real waste of time : hundreds of mostly fake entries in which you go "fishing" for real loans
- the order of the history has no logic : 2010 from 31/12 to 01/01, then 2011 from today to 01/01
- if you did not check "Automatically set return when changing location of the movie" in the options and do not update the loan manager every time you move an edition, loan or not (not easy considering the number of entries in the list), on some occasions you can't return the movie where it belongs, the update being ignored over and over
- I already erased twice everything because of the previous problem and had to re-input all locations (I have about 1000 films) because if you delete the entries in the loan manager, you lose the regular location of the film
- although the loan manager seems to work at edition level(?), in the list you don't know the edition concerned (did I lend the DVD or the Blu-ray?)
Thus the best would be to have 2 data at "Edition" level :
- the location, place where the edition is or would be if not lent, with no history necessary
- the loans (present location) if the edition is lent along with the present loan manager with only real loans that one should be able to query at global, film, edition and borrower's levels
- of course, the lists of locations and of borrowers should be split
- no automatic return is necessary anymore
- when showing an edition, both data should appear : regular location and possible borrower, if any.

#5
If you delete a picture from the display of the film (right click on it), it is erased from the disk but if you delete it using the "-" sign in the "Pictures" tab of the Edit mode, it is not.

#7
Uppercase / lowercase and accented letters. In addition to removing the prefixes to create the sort title, could you as well :
- change all accented letters into normal letters (éèêëÊ… -> e, ñÑ ->n)
- change all uppercased letters to lowercase (save, possibly, for the first letter) or, alternatively, change all letters to uppercase.
Today, in order to have a correct sort order, we have to do it manually. In English, they have now the bad habit to uppercase the first letter of every word (the reason is still a mystery to me) and, in German, it is a rule to uppercase the first letter of all names, even common names.

#8
Pictures imported and numbered in ascendind sequence are displayed in reverse order, last imported first. I don't see any reason for that, so could you change the display sequence? I often take pictures from the film myself and I have today to import them from last to first.

#10
Sometimes, when downloading a film from IMDB, I get the original title in all 3 fields and no French title. Example : Falstaff (the Chimes at Midnight, Orson Welles); Although the French title is reported in IMDB, I get the Spanish original title only.

#12
In the Maxez interface, as the back cover is shown at top right, remove it from the pictures at bottom.