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andreas martin
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| 10/18/2009 6:07 AM |
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First I have to explain how I use UVG for this to give meaning.
We are a small group of volantaries who produce local news-broadcasts every third week or so, and have been doing so since 1994.
We are now in the process of making our entire archive available online, and for this we are using uvg. We make a new series for each broadcast and upload each segment of the brodcast idividually and then "stitch" the broadcast together using the series function. This makes it possible for the viewer to watch an entire broadcast, as well as making all segments searchable.
Our huge challenge with uvg is that we HAVE TO publish all our content chronologically, starting with the first broadcast in 1994, so that the sorting-functions in uvg gets things right. It would be pretty confusing if the broadcasts, videolists, serieslists, and so on did not show things chronologically.
Unfortunately we have a couple thousand segments in total, which makes the chance of human error when uploading quite large. We have of-course discovered that we have forgotten to publish a segment here and there. But if we upload those segments now, they will sort as newer than everything else on the site. They will sort as newer than segments which in real life are newer.
We really don't want to delete broadcasts back in time to fill in the gaps when need, and then re-publish all the newer material, and in that way make everything chronological again.
Are there any way to edit the videoID and seriesID, making things right?
Or even better, have uvg sort videos by date added, not videoID and seriesID. I don't think that would cause problems for people using UVG as a youtube-replica since videos would still be sorted as newer as they are published, but it certainly would be better for people like me who need things chronologically and happen to make human errors when uploading.
The videoID always increases by one, so say I have video uploaded 1,3, and 4, and unfortunately forgotten to upload video 2. Video 1,2,4 will now have gotten videoID 1,2,3, so if I upload video 2 now I have no "spare room" in the videoID to put in video 3, without changing all the succeeding videos.
(That was a very uncomplicated example, but imagine if the videoID stretches from 1 to 2000, I need to fill in a video between videoID 795 and 796..!)
If videos and series sorted by date added it would be much easier to manually squeeze in a new video between two existing ones.
Ideally the function to alter the dates should be present in for example the my-videos and my-series modules for easy access..
What do you guys think? Pengtsen? |
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andreas martin
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| 10/19/2009 4:33 PM |
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Another suggestion:
In stead of changing how uvg operates with seriesIDs and videoIDs, which perhaps could invlove quite extensive changes, I think that if you could just make all the "recent"-lists sort by date added instead of ID all my problems would go away.
In that way one could easily update the dates in the database to make things sort as wanted, but the IDs, links, database and so forth would still function as they do today..
Can this be done? |
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Pengtsen R
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| 10/20/2009 3:45 AM |
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you don't need to change "videoId" or "seriesId', UVG doesn't use them for sorting.
however, maybe you can alter the "CreatedDate" column in UVG_VideoTable? when you choose "Recent Videos", UVG sort by this column.
If you uploaded Video A related to an event in 1994, then uploaded Video B related to 1996, then you want to add Video C, which occurs in 1995, you can change it's CreatedDate to be a value between Video A and Video B.
what do you think? |
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Pengtsen R
http://www.bizmodules.net |
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andreas martin
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| 10/21/2009 4:05 AM |
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This is perfect and excactly what I hoped could be done.
But it seems I have to edit both the createddate and lastusedate? |
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Pengtsen R
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| 10/21/2009 11:50 PM |
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| CreatedDate should be ok. |
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Pengtsen R
http://www.bizmodules.net |
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