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How we handle the Slip Case type?
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantDan W
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It is not called digipack, it's called digipak.


You say Tomayto, I say Tomahto

Bla, bla bla.
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Method One                                                              Method Two

BOXSET (Movie or TV)                                            Alternate Method:
                                                                            Add a checkbox to indicate [] Boxset
Keepcases w/S.cover                                                      Then pick approp. case type
Keepcases w/Sleeve                                                Keepcases w/S.cover
Digipack w/S.cover                                                  Keepcases w/Sleeve
Digipack w/Sleeve                                                  Digipack w/S.cover
Custom                                                                  Digipack w/Sleeve
                                                                            Keepcase
SINGLE TITLE                                                        Thinpack
                                                                            Digipack
Keepcase w/S.cover                                                Custom
Keepcase w/Sleeve
Keepcase
Digipack
Thinpack
Custom



If I'm reading this right, you're suggesting that just adding "slip case" to case types is too generic, and we actually need more, more specific entries? If that's the case, then I like that idea a lot.
I think you'd also need Thinpaks with slipcovers in the box set list. And to answer your question, a Steelbook is a single type case (basically it's a keepcase made out of metal).
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Method One                                                              Method Two

BOXSET (Movie or TV)                                            Alternate Method:
                                                                            Add a checkbox to indicate [] Boxset
Keepcases w/S.cover                                                      Then pick approp. case type
Keepcases w/Sleeve                                                Keepcases w/S.cover
Digipack w/S.cover                                                  Keepcases w/Sleeve
Digipack w/Sleeve                                                  Digipack w/S.cover
Custom                                                                  Digipack w/Sleeve
                                                                            Keepcase
SINGLE TITLE                                                        Thinpack
                                                                            Digipack
Keepcase w/S.cover                                                Custom
Keepcase w/Sleeve
Keepcase
Digipack
Thinpack
Custom



If I'm reading this right, you're suggesting that just adding "slip case" to case types is too generic, and we actually need more, more specific entries? If that's the case, then I like that idea a lot.
I think you'd also need Thinpaks with slipcovers in the box set list. And to answer your question, a Steelbook is a single type case (basically it's a keepcase made out of metal).


Like I said, this was a first draft, and if any are missing add them in.
John

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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantDan W
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A checkbox would make this a great deal easier.
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A checkbox would make this a great deal easier.


I agree. I wonder if adding a CHECKBOX to indicate if there's a slipcase or not, as T!M has suggested elsewhere, would not resolve much (if not all) of the ongoing disputes here. The dropdown menu can then be reserved for what some call the "inner" packaging.
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The problem with moving the slip cover info to a checkbox is, what do we use for case type for parent profiles of box sets?
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I do see your point.

Just a thought: why not call it what it really is (physically, I mean): if it's a cardboard box, call it a cardboard box. If it's a fat keep case, call it keep case. If it's a digipak, call it digipak etc.

Trying to find a constructive solution - I have no intention of entering the arena of nitpicking here.
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The problem with moving the slip cover info to a checkbox is, what do we use for case type for parent profiles of box sets?

In my opinion that's is where you would use the checkbox. You would not use it for the child profiles.

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Just a thought: why not call it what it really is (physically, I mean): if it's a cardboard box, call it a cardboard box. If it's a fat keep case, call it keep case. If it's a digipak, call it digipak etc.

I was trying to say that on the first couple of pages of these threads. But it's not what the majority wants...
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantDan W
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Just a thought: why not call it what it really is (physically, I mean): if it's a cardboard box, call it a cardboard box. If it's a fat keep case, call it keep case. If it's a digipak, call it digipak etc.

I was trying to say that on the first couple of pages of these threads. But it's not what the majority wants...

Achim, you know all too well that making things simple and accurate just doesn't wash with this group. Or so it would seem.
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The problem with moving the slip cover info to a checkbox is, what do we use for case type for parent profiles of box sets?


Use the "inner" child case type.

You will then know that it has children in a specific case type, enclosed in a slip case.

Alternately, make case type optional...then you could leave it blank and just tick the "Slip Case" checkbox.
Hal
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