Personal Video Database

I use the ID as a reference to my discs. Utilizing different ID series (1000, 5000 etc) to designate locations.
Is there a way to set the starting ID number when adding discs?
Right now PVD insists the next ID is in my 1000 series. I'd like to be able to change this as needed.

Thanks
Den

Hi Rick,

To conserve space I store my discs in binders. Sorting by Title is nice until you need to insert a new disc and have to move all the subsequent discs to make room. PVD is the perfect index / table of contents, why not use it... thus the idea to store the discs sequentially by a 'key' number. At first I considered a custom field to hold the numeric key and then found the ID# field almost by accident. It looks like the perfect key to this system. It is easy to add a new disc, enter it into PVD, write the ID# on the disc and put it in the last binder. PVD is perfect for searching for a movie, everyone seems to like it better than paging through the binders.

I was just looking for more information on how PVD creates and utilizes the ID# field. Most of my knowledge on how PVD handles the ID# has come from hacking... there does not seem to be much documentation on the field!

Using the PVD as an index for our TV series has been a challenge because they are not stored in the binders. I was hoping to hear a solution here on the forum but it looks like I will have to work it out on my own. So far the 'TV' prefix and re-using the number for a movie looks most promising.     

I am sure others have similar storage / retrieval issues.... maybe the numeric key system will help.
Thanks for all your time...
DenS
 

I use the ID field as an index to my DVDs. What effect does adding a prefix such as 'TV-' to the number? I'd like to distinguish TV series from my movie DVDs.
Any other suggestion as to how and differentiate storage location would be appreciated.
DenS

This started a month or so ago; when I create a new movie master everything is imported correctly but no images. If I them try to import the poster from Amazon.com I get the message no movies found.
They only way to get an image for a movie is to save the jpg from the internet and then add the file to the movie record.

Thanks you for looking into this,
DenS

When the New Movie master is opened set focus on the Title field..

DenS

Would be nice if an upgrade .16 to .18 preserved my skin.... not a biggie but perhaps an easy fix

DenS

Yea!

The solution was two fold from the post "And parts of this recent thread may be helpful."
My attempts to attach to the server were always to a physical drive..

• naming the server MUSIC from this suggestion "server:E:\Users Shared Folders\me\My Documents\Personal Video Database\movies.pvd - FB on a remote server, local path on server - WORKS!"
  
• addding the TCP port 3050 exception to the Windows firewall on the server.

My connection now looks like this:

MUSIC:E:\Our Data\PVD-Movies\MOVIES.PVD

Where MUSIC is the name of computer where the Firebird database service is running.
"Our Data" folder and the sub-folders under it are shared.

As for the mapped drive not working, I meant placing the database on a mapped drive without using the Firebird server. I have not tried accessing a mapped drive using the Firebird server.

Thanks for all your help and this great program... I will now spend s bit of time updating my imported movies, learning the program and adding PVD to my other computers.

DenS

Thanks... will give it a go...


Do you have an import funtion? I can export a list of my movies in Excel or text format.

DenS