Consider the following hypothetical situation:

I have an actor whose common name is Tom/Q./Smith. He is frequently credited as Tom//Smith. The Credits lookup says Tom/Q./Smith 25/45 and Tom//Smith 24/44. I have a Common Name entry for Tom/Q./Smith, and use "Credited As" on those profiles where he is credited as Tom//Smith.

A couple of his old movies get released wherein he is featured as Tom//Smith, making the Credit lookup go to Tom/Q./Smith 25/45 and Tom//Smith 26/46.

I would like to change the Common name in my local to match the data given by the Credits lookup, so I try to just edit the Common Name.

The problem is that that doesn't have the effect I want. I want all of the profiles that have him as simply Tom/Q./Smith [ ] changed to be entries as Tom//Smith [Tom Q. Smith] and all of the entries that have him as Tom/Q./Smith [Tom Smith] changed to be entries as Tom//Smith [ ]  Ie. to fiddle the "Credited As" field for all of his entries to keep the same (verified) credits.

Does any of that make sense? I think it may come up more frequently as more data is verified and corrected in the master online database.

An option to do this would be useful, I think.

Fred:

My understanding is that the online CLT will adjust itself automatically as the counts vary. But you made a critical comment.

I want all of the profiles that have him as simply Tom/Q./Smith [ ] changed to be entries as Tom//Smith [Tom Q. Smith] and all of the entries that have him as Tom/Q./Smith [Tom Smith] changed to be entries as Tom//Smith [ ]  Ie. to fiddle the "Credited As" field for all of his entries to keep the same (verified) credits.

That makes it purely a local choice.

A lot of users make a big to do abnout usability versus accuracy. Usability is nearly always something that is defined by the USER, and is going to be different with each and every user, which is why the Online should be accuracy centered., unfortunately depending on perspectives sometimes accuracy can be variable as well, which is why Rules were created.

Skip

Quoting skipnet50:

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Fred:

My understanding is that the online CLT will adjust itself automatically as the counts vary. But you made a critical comment.

I want all of the profiles that have him as simply Tom/Q./Smith [ ] changed to be entries as Tom//Smith [Tom Q. Smith] and all of the entries that have him as Tom/Q./Smith [Tom Smith] changed to be entries as Tom//Smith [ ]  Ie. to fiddle the "Credited As" field for all of his entries to keep the same (verified) credits.

That makes it purely a local choice.

Sorry, Skip. I had thought that the sentence just before the section you quoted was sufficient to indicate that I was only interested in a convenience feature for local databases, where I said

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I would like to change the Common name in my local to match the data given by the Credits lookup, so I try to just edit the Common Name.

I'm interested in what you mean when you say:

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My understanding is that the online CLT will adjust itself automatically as the counts vary

In what way do you visualise the CLT adjusting? i wouldn't think that it had to, would it? or am i missing some other thing ...

Quoting FredLooks:

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Quoting skipnet50:

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Fred:

My understanding is that the online CLT will adjust itself automatically as the counts vary. But you made a critical comment.

I want all of the profiles that have him as simply Tom/Q./Smith [ ] changed to be entries as Tom//Smith [Tom Q. Smith] and all of the entries that have him as Tom/Q./Smith [Tom Smith] changed to be entries as Tom//Smith [ ]  Ie. to fiddle the "Credited As" field for all of his entries to keep the same (verified) credits.

That makes it purely a local choice.

Sorry, Skip. I had thought that the sentence just before the section you quoted was sufficient to indicate that I was only interested in a convenience feature for local databases, where I said

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I would like to change the Common name in my local to match the data given by the Credits lookup, so I try to just edit the Common Name.

I'm interested in what you mean when you say:

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My understanding is that the online CLT will adjust itself automatically as the counts vary

In what way do you visualise the CLT adjusting? i wouldn't think that it had to, would it? or am i missing some other thing ...

My bad, fred, i misread you. Thanks for clarifying

Skip

@skip: no worries, mate

@m.cellophane&T!M: Yeah, frankly I was thinking of the Name Variants tool when I first ran into this issue (my local common was backwards to the online common). The problem was I didn't have two names, I only had the one, which I wanted to change as though there were one.

Actually, now that I think of it, I should have created a new name the way I wanted it, assigned it to one of the profiles, and then used the Names Variant tool to merge them.

grrrrr. now I think of it.

I'd still like to see something like this, but it's backed down my priority list quite a bit. (Thanks to Goodguy!)

Hmmmm, dare I say it.

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