More Powerful Episode Creator options


RaveDave wrote 10 years ago: 1

With this site rapidly growing and adding lots of new shows and the data for them being imported, there are obviously lots of episodes and complete seasons missing for shows, the site could really do with more powerful options to create new episodes, for example last week i spent countless hours fixing the listing on here for the Dr. Phil show, i added hundreds of episodes to complete the listing for the show, currently i am working on the show called the Chase, there are still about 400 episodes to be added to fix it.

It would be so helpful to have a creator tool were you can set a start date and an end date and set the frequency that the show airs, should that be every weekday or every Wednesday or every Tuesday & Wednesday etc and let the site then create a batch of episodes in one go, this would save mountains of time. I realise that this would be a very powerful tool and IMO shouldn't be available as a default option to just any user, but only to those trusted by mods etc to use it properly, if you want this site to contain accurate information for older shows something like this is essential IMO to massively speed up the process.


JuanArango wrote 10 years ago: 1

RaveDave wrote:
With this site rapidly growing and adding lots of new shows and the data for them being imported, there are obviously lots of episodes and complete seasons missing for shows, the site could really do with more powerful options to create new episodes, for example last week i spent countless hours fixing the listing on here for the Dr. Phil show, i added hundreds of episodes to complete the listing for the show, currently i am working on the show called the Chase, there are still about 400 episodes to be added to fix it.
It would be so helpful to have a creator tool were you can set a start date and an end date and set the frequency that the show airs, should that be every weekday or every Wednesday or every Tuesday & Wednesday etc and let the site then create a batch of episodes in one go, this would save mountains of time. I realise that this would be a very powerful tool and IMO shouldn't be available as a default option to just any user, but only to those trusted by mods etc to use it properly, if you want this site to contain accurate information for older shows something like this is essential IMO to massively speed up the process.

I agree, but we are a small crew, so david and jan need to look into this, how much time it will take to code this :)


david wrote 10 years ago: 1

Thanks for the suggestion! Tools to help out frequent editors are a high priority. Will give it some thought if & how this could be done.


MichaelDeBoey wrote 10 years ago: 1

A CSV importer for episodes would also be nice I think :-)


MichaelDeBoey wrote 10 years ago: 1

Any News on this?

Really waiting for the CSV-importer :-)

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