Well on that I can agree with to some degree, Agrare. But it is not dissimilar from the some of the other labels. Total DVDs is and always has been a misnomer, the program does not count DVDs, it counts Profiles. The change in 3.6 may be of some help in that area, but not for all I suspect.

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Only Ken can change this.

Once again, you can easily do this for your local layout, with a translation file. If that doesn't change anything for the online, it allows you to have on your screen field titles coherent with data that are entered.

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Only Ken can change this.

Once again, you can easily do this for your local layout, with a translation file. If that doesn't change anything for the online, it allows you to have on your screen field titles coherent with data that are entered.

Well thanks Yves, but personally I've lived with the current names for long enough to not get confused. My primary concern was for newbies who indeed might get confused.

Agreed, Dan.

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It's usually not a problem for people who have been using the program for years, but I still occasionally get no votes for changing the production/copyright year to the year of the (theatrical) release and then I have to explain why things are called something else than what they really are in PMs... And I still have no idea why. 

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...We still don't have a functioning set of charts & graphs. If you have more than 53 studios, production years, release dates, or anything else, the chart just cuts the list off with no method of viewing the remainder. And there is no interaction with the graphs. Several fields are so small that the pertinent data does not fit. ...

I recall that the graph of Production Years used to be much more friendly to the 120+ years of film in my collection. There was no vertical extra chart on the right, and each year had a numerical count at the top, rather than the repeat of the date. It was easier to see which years I only had one dvd, and where each year's total count was. Some people became confused at my having two profiles for a year before 1880, but the 1879 dvd was just one in a box set, so both had that "earliest production year."

Anyway, I only use the chart on production years, and I still feel the old style was more useful.

Hey Cliff,

In my earlier post, I did not intend to rant on the charts and graphs quite the way I did. Rather, it was an attempt to illustrate that there are many other fields and features like, Production Year, that are being neglected while we get the annual "bug fix" update. I see no excuse for the data fields being overlooked in this manner. For those of you who are concerned with data base bloat on these fields, text takes up very little space. In this instance, functionality should be the priority.

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As long as we are discussing the charts and graphs, yes, I remember there was no list on the side in the earliest versions of the program. This rendered a much larger chart than we have today. Aside from this addition, the only "upgrades" have been the graph variation selections on the far right (which further reduces the size of the graph) and the ability to "zoom" in by dragging your mouse over the charts. It may be cumbersome but it is functional.

A simple scroll bar for the side list would be a huge improvement and would render it a useful item. Additionally, zoom and scroll-bars on the chart/graph would be a huge leap forward. The thing I would most like to see is, interactive charts/graphs that would pull up the titles represented by the bar/pie-slice in the chart. It would be so nice to be able to click on one of the bars in the “First Genre” chart and be taken to or shown the titles represented in the selected bar. A pop-up like the one for selecting an actor would be most welcome but a tie into the regular search filters that would take you back into the program to view those titles would work as well.

It just seems so strange that such a powerful program for cataloging DVD's has such an 80’s charts and graphs section. “3-D” texturing is pretty but it is not very functional.

That is covered in the Rules Terry...

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Enter the year of the original theatrical release. For films that have been updated (e.g., a Special Edition or Directors Cut) use the year of the original release, not the year that the re-release was “made” or released.