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Hi!

So far jcollection runs well and I am really happy with it! Great job Thorsten!

The import of the DVD-Profiler xml- file works great also! I had some work with the picutres (255 items!) but now that this is done, it looks like I wanted it to have.

Anyway I have some questions.
First of all I would like to change "actors", "director" ... in the frontend into German. Where can I find it since these words are not in the lang- files?

The other question I have is about the "info#" fields, e.g. info#5.
Is it possible to change it into „added on“ and that this can be seen in the frontend, like you can see actors, director…?

By the way, what is this “overwrite” thing? Will all information of the items be overwritten when I do an update of this item?

Last question.
When I import a new xml-file (e.g. a new movie) will the old items stay or will everything be deleted?

Best
Andy

Hi,
to translate the info fields, you can either use the component "babelfish", which works really great for multi-language sites, or (if you only have one language anyway) change the entries in the backend of JCollection directly. What you are looking for is the "info types". Every info type can have up to 10 different fields, so you can add your custom field(s) to the "Movie" type.
The "overwrite thing" is one of JCollection's core feature. It is possible to utilize webservices (such as Amazon(*), Google books, imdb(*),...) to fetch information about an item, and then to "overwrite" the information that is stored in JCollection's database with the information from the webservice (that may be the title, description, actors, whatever). Also, it is possible to "overwrite" the "global" item information with the information that is stored in the first info set, which makes sense if every item consists of only one info set anyway. I've written down some lines about the overwrite in the manual (it's not complete, but should give you the idea).
Finally, if you import a new XML file, the items will be added to the database. I am not 100% sure if JCollection checks for duplicated entries, but I think for the import duplicated titles are ok.
HTH,
Thorsten.
(*) requires some fine-tuning.