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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorMarty S. McFly
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How do I submit child profiles from box sets and link to another set.  Tried submitting child profiles for Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Complete Series (032429244802) from the previous separate blue-ray releases  to make a Canadian profile.  Some were not approved and some were.  Any suggestions would be appreciated. 
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DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile RegistrantStar ContributorDJ Doena
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Can you be a bit more specific on what exactly you did?
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Took Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Complete Series 032429244819 and used the child profiles from it to make the Canadian version of Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Complete Series 032429244802 and some are still linked to the Canadian version of the individual box sets.
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All profiles live by themselves first and foremost.

But you can take any number of box sets and assign the same child profiles to them.

This often happens with re-releases of seasons or even complete series boxes that just re-pack the discs from the earlier releases.

So something like this:

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Star Trek: Season 1 (UPC: 123456789012)
- Disc 1  (DiscId: ABCD-EF12-3456-890A)

Star Trek: The Complete Series (UPC: 987654321098)
- Disc 1 (DiscId: ABCD-EF12-3456-890A)


is totally ok and not out of the norm.
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Hey DJ are you sure about that? I was about to give the same answer to a similar question the other day, and then reminded myself that a given profile can have only one parent. What am I missing?
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then reminded myself that a given profile can have only one parent. What am I missing?


You're thinking "your local DB". In your local, one profile can only have one parent, true. This is due to the hierarchical display of the program

But in the online any number of profiles can have the same child profile assigned because it's just a bit of text in the "box set content" part of the profile.


Since the OP was talking about contribution ("submit") I assumed that this was his issue.
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Well I knew there was merit in your comments. But how does one do it? The DVDP Edit Profile dialog removes profiles that already have a parent, from appearing in the sidebar. Unless you force things by editing the XML or using something like BulkEdit, how do you get around the restriction that the editor imposes? And if you don't have a correct correspondence between what is in "Box Set Contents" and "Box Set Parent" (globally), then wouldn't that mess up certain statistics and/or reports?  (yes, I know that people can have multiple parents!  ) What adds to my confusion  on this, is that I have never seen the XML construction for a profile with multiple parents. I believe the XML reflects (or should reflect) the actual database structure, not the display format.

For example, how would this change to indicate an additional Parent? (another <Parent/> element?)

<DVD>
  <ProfileTimestamp>2017-04-15T01:40:23.000Z</ProfileTimestamp>
  <ID>IA14D01E0F1CB25EE</ID>
......
  <BoxSet>
    <Parent>013132470191</Parent>
    <Contents/>
  </BoxSet>
......
</DVD>

<DVD>
  <ProfileTimestamp>2016-05-14T18:41:05.000Z</ProfileTimestamp>
  <ID>013132470191</ID>
......
  <BoxSet>
    <Parent/>
    <Contents>
      <Content>IA14D01E0F1CB25EE</Content>
    </Contents>
  </BoxSet>
......
</DVD>
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That was the issue where I submitted the child profiles for the parent and some were approved and some were not.  If I try and create those child profiles from scratch it tells me the disc id's are for another profile. 
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That was the issue where I submitted the child profiles for the parent and some were approved and some were not.  If I try and create those child profiles from scratch it tells me the disc id's are for another profile. 


I think we need to talk in images, to get some confusion cleared up.

For the online database, you can contribute a profile that locally has child profiles attached. Like this one of mine:



Once this contribution has been approved, anyone updating their profile of " Young Sheldon: The Complete First Season" 883929-643509 will get notified that there are new child profiles available for this box set.

Theoretically, these same discs 365D-DC5E-33FB-DC4F and 4316-208E-6910-50D4 could be attached to a different box set in the Online database. But not your local. Locally one profile can only have one parent.

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it tells me the disc id's are for another profile.


Can you make a screenshot of that and upload somewhere for us to see? Otherwise it's hard to understand what you're doing and where you're failing exactly
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Quoting DJ Doena:
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...
Theoretically, these same discs 365D-DC5E-33FB-DC4F and 4316-208E-6910-50D4 could be attached to a different box set in the Online database. But not your local. Locally one profile can only have one parent.
...

And therein lies the rub: "theoretically". But what happens when all the affected profiles (both parents and all children) get downloaded from the Online?  What does that XML look like?

Seems like the ability to create an inconsistent database view by having multiple parents in the online, that cannot be represented in the local, would not have been intended by Ken. I would call it a bug. It doesn't make sense for the online database schema to be different from the local. That would invalidate upload/download, restore from online, etc.
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorMarty S. McFly
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Sorry for the confusion but apparently the profile for  Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Complete Series was approved twice as separate profiles for same box set when i submitted changes.  So the child profiles were for the other box set of the same UPC.  if you search for 032429244802 2 show with same UPC  just have to get the covers corrected for some of them. Learned at lot from your reply's. 
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And therein lies the rub: "theoretically". But what happens when all the affected profiles (both parents and all children) get downloaded from the Online?


They get downloaded and attached to the first profile, then discarded for the other ones. Or last one wins. Either or, they are just attached to one profile.

You can try it out. Both of these German Babylon 5 sets 7321921739934 and 7321921228551 contain the disc F45C-2781-4F50-9D7C (Season 1, Disc 1).

If you add both of them at the same time, the child is only attached to one of them
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Thanks DJ. No need for me to try it. I believe you and it confirms what I suspected and would have predicted. It is simply a bug or oversight on Ken's part. I doubt that it will ever be fixed.

The XML (which any of us can figure out) would look something like:

<Box Set>
  <Parents>
    <Parent>1</Parent>
    <Parent>2</Parent>
  </Parents>
  <Contents>
    <Content>1</Content>
    <Content>2</Content>
    ....
  </Contents>
</Box Set>
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This is getting a bit off topic, but ...

I have wondered why a child profile even has the parent info. I can't think of any functionality in DVD Profiler itself that would depend on knowing the parent of a boxset child. Everything seems to be hierarchically top-down, i.e. the parent is responsible for keeping track of the children.

In ProfilerQuery I use the presence of the parent node to detect that a profile is a boxset child. But I haven't (yet) found any use for the actual parent id. As far as I know, there is nothing in Profiler that even shows that a profile (when displayed on its own) is a boxset child.

The fact that you can't have the same child in two (or more) boxsets, is that a bug? No, I don't think so. It would be a bug if Ken thought that it would work. I don't believe he did. So, it's a limitation. The limitation stems from the fact that you can't have two profiles with the same ID, since the ID is the unique key in the database, and each entry in Profiler is its own profile. Ken could have made provisions for multiple boxsets to point to the same child profile. Only Ken knows why he didn't.

A possible work-around is to create a manual profile and copy everything from the original child profile (DVD/Copy, DVD/Paste), and add that manual profile as a child to the second boxset. The downside is, of course, that this child will never be automatically updated.
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A possible work-around is to create a manual profile and copy everything from the original child profile (DVD/Copy, DVD/Paste), and add that manual profile as a child to the second boxset. The downside is, of course, that this child will never be automatically updated.


Or create an alternate profile Id.
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Quoting GSyren:
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...

The fact that you can't have the same child in two (or more) boxsets, is that a bug? No, I don't think so. It would be a bug if Ken thought that it would work. I don't believe he did. So, it's a limitation.
...
As far as I know, there is nothing in Profiler that even shows that a profile (when displayed on its own) is a boxset child.
...

The fact that there are two schemas in place is a bug. The limitation is not the bug, but that the limitation does not apply consistently: the local db has it, the online doesn't.

As DJ points out, Alternate IDs is a solution, created in part by Ken to solve this type of problem. You can clone a profile as many times as you want, simply by creating a unique database key, using the Alternate ID mechanism.

As far as the utility of the Parent ID, again as DJ points out, the local DB uses it as a convenient way to organize the nested display in the collections windows. I'm guessing Ken didn't get around to figuring out a clever way to indicate multiple parents visually, so the bug fell by the wayside.

Perhaps a hot key that cycles thru "Nest by first parent ..", "Nest by second parent ...", etc. would work? And then you would need an option to say whether to apply the nesting rule at the top level or all the way down. Nightmare!!!

P.S. Edited additional note. I mentioned the one (critical) place in DVD Profiler where the fact that a profile is part of a box set is shown, is in the Edit Profile, when you attempt to add a profile to a box set for which the edited profile is the parent. You will notice that the selection side bar of profiles does not include any profiles that are already children in a box set. That's what lead to my question to DJ as to how a dual Parent profile is created, which lead to his example, etc.
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