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Ability to hide crew group dividers |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 4,245 |
| | Posted: | | | | I would like the ability to "hide" crew group dividers from a contribution.
There are a few times in my local I use a Group Divider for a company to keep track of non-contributable crew. Some of these include such things as Makeup Effects Companies, but those listed, while well known are credited with job titles that aren't allowed at this time, such as prosthetics.
When I have these in my local I have to remove the company group divider and contribute the profile then add the company group divider back into the profile.
This is also a pain when I look at new updates and may need to add back in a company group divider because the new update doesn't have what my local one does.
Gee, I hope that made sense. |
|   | T!M | | Profiling since Dec. 2000 |
| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 8,736 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting CubbyUps: Quote:
Gee, I hope that made sense. It does. Frankly, I'm getting sick and tired of the various recent aspects that are threatening the ability to contribute: - If the way I parse a certain name locally differs from the way it's parsed in the online profile, yet I can't "document" the change (documentation on parsing simply doesn't seem to exist except for maybe a handful of major stars), then I have to change the parsing before I can contribute other changes/additions, and then fix it right back. - If the way I capitalise a certain name locally differs from the way it's capitalised in the online profile, I again often have no other option than to change my entry before I can contribute other changes/additions, and then fix it right back. - And now these dividers: when I choose to maintain a divider which doesn't qualify for inclusion in the online profile, then I'm forced to strip it from my profile before I can contribute other changes/additions, and then put it back in. The same horror-scenario applies to pointless dividers that ARE included in the online but which I don't want in my local. All in all, there's basically not a single profile left where I can simply hit the "Contribute" button. I nearly always have a batch of extra work to do before I can eventually contribute to a profile. There's only so much I can take, though - I'm getting dangerously close to just giving it up, and keep my work local instead. |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 20,111 |
| | Posted: | | | | This is something I'd very much like to see as well!  I often add custom Group Dividers in Crew also, and must remove them before contributing. It's not a major pain to simply copy and paste the xml info into a text file and re-add it in after I've contributed without the Crew Dividers, but it sure would be easier if Dividers could be marked as "Custom" | | | | Corey |
| | Registered: May 20, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 2,934 |
| | Posted: | | | | I would like this also. Even to the point of being able to contribute and accept the portion of the cast crew that I want.
I know that it is not much help, but ken made it easier.
Before you make your contribute, go to file ---> create profile file. This will create a file that is like the ne you download at update. All but the Image. Then make your changes and contribute. Then find that Profile file (where ever you selected to save it) and open it from within windows file system. You will get a comparison screen. Just accept it and you have your profile back.
It is not perfect, but it is how I do it.
Charlie |
| | Muckl | | That's my common name. |
| Registered: April 9, 2009 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 858 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting CharlieM: Quote:
I would like this also. Even to the point of being able to contribute and accept the portion of the cast crew that I want. +1 Quoting CharlieM: Quote:
Before you make your contribute, go to file ---> create profile file. This will create a file that is like the ne you download at update. All but the Image. Then make your changes and contribute. Then find that Profile file (where ever you selected to save it) and open it from within windows file system. You will get a comparison screen. Just accept it and you have your profile back. Great use of profile files, thanks for the tip! | | |
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| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 13,202 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting T!M: Quote:
Quoting CubbyUps:
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Gee, I hope that made sense.
It does. Frankly, I'm getting sick and tired of the various recent aspects that are threatening the ability to contribute:
- If the way I parse a certain name locally differs from the way it's parsed in the online profile, yet I can't "document" the change (documentation on parsing simply doesn't seem to exist except for maybe a handful of major stars), then I have to change the parsing before I can contribute other changes/additions, and then fix it right back.
- If the way I capitalise a certain name locally differs from the way it's capitalised in the online profile, I again often have no other option than to change my entry before I can contribute other changes/additions, and then fix it right back.
- And now these dividers: when I choose to maintain a divider which doesn't qualify for inclusion in the online profile, then I'm forced to strip it from my profile before I can contribute other changes/additions, and then put it back in. The same horror-scenario applies to pointless dividers that ARE included in the online but which I don't want in my local.
All in all, there's basically not a single profile left where I can simply hit the "Contribute" button. I nearly always have a batch of extra work to do before I can eventually contribute to a profile. There's only so much I can take, though - I'm getting dangerously close to just giving it up, and keep my work local instead. Welcome to my world. Because I have to do this extra work, on a lot of my profiles, I only audit them when I am watching that disc. If I did what you seem to be doing, auditing for the sake of auditing, I would drive myself crazy. Much respect for lasting as long as you have. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
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| | T!M | | Profiling since Dec. 2000 |
| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 8,736 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting TheMadMartian: Quote:
If I did what you seem to be doing, auditing for the sake of auditing, I would drive myself crazy. Much respect for lasting as long as you have. For the record: I don't "audit for the sake of auditing" - I audit just for my own benefit. I'd keep doing so even if Invelos disappeared tomorrow without a trace and there was no on-line database left. |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 13,202 |
| | Posted: | | | | Perhaps I worded it wrong. I know you audit for your own benefit, I do as well. What I don't do, and you seem to do, is pop that disc in a player for the sole purpose of auditing...that's what I meant by 'auditing for the sake of auditing'. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
- Citizen G'Kar |
| | Blair | | Resistance is Futile! |
| Registered: October 30, 2008 | | Posts: 1,249 |
| | Posted: | | | | I like this idea (as an option) because I do at times like the group dividers can make the cast list have a look a bit closer to what you see in the credits. Personally, seeing a list of 10 names each with the same role off to the right sometimes made me dizzy  The only minor problem that I have with the dividers is that the indention feels just a little too short and gives me a feeling confusion for a moment with non-grouped names that fall between two groups. | | | If at first you don't succeed, skydiving isn't for you.
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