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Topic: CD Albums: Time To Bite The Bullet Pt. 1 The Problem

10th Aug 2017, 9:21 PM
	Lee Wrecker If you can't dig me, you can't dig nothin' Member since Nov 2013 2283 Points	Magic Marmalade, I think you're onto something here because the complexities of the country field are a definite deterrent to users entering CDs. Making it the last field to enter instead of the first is a brilliant idea. At least then site users would feel as though they were making progress before having to deal with the country field. So reordering the input process is a neat way to circumvent being stopped in your tracks from the very first question. So your idea of shuffling the country field to the end makes sense to me. I think combining your idea to something like mine above for determining the country would make the process much more user friendly. Which I think is the object of this entire thread. In the interest of clarity I'll outline how we could go about this step by step as you have above. Go to "Add Item" (or read the guide to adding CD albums) and enter: Label Artist Cat# Barcode (if present) Country (Optional Field) (read the guide to choosing a country) The guide to choosing a country link would look something like this: 1. Made In Country/Region + Marketed in the same Country/Region = Listed as from that Country/Region 2. Made In Country/Region + Marketed in a different Country/Region = Listed as from a different Country/Region (ie. EU made UK releases) This would include what MM calls Alpha and Omega releases and hopefully deal with that problem. If you know your CD was 3. Made In Country/Region + Marketed in multiple Countries/Regions = Listed as from Country/Region of original release (should perhaps be changed to country/region of manufacture)but available in other countries/regions by selecting from an international list of countries contained in a drop down menu on the listing page. 4. If you are still unsure of Country/Region select Unknown Country If a member selects Unknown Country a Mod could enter it while the entry is being checked if there is enough data entered to determine it. This would hopefully get round the problem of having too many CDs listed from Unknown Country. I know a lot of this has been put forward before in separate suggestions from a number of contributors but what I'm attempting to do here is create a more comprehensive model for the Mods to examine when dealing with this issue. By the way I thought this thread had fizzled out but I'm glad to see it is still ticking along and new ideas are coming in which is great. Thanks to everyone that has contributed so far. Edited by Lee Wrecker on 11th Aug 2017, 10:02 PM