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DVD Profiler Unlimited Registrantxyrano
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Just curious!

Lets say that you have a 2 disc edition of [insert title of choice].
The discs in this 2 disc edition is;
- a Main Feature disc and
- a Bonus Material disc.

Lets also say that you choose to utilize the child profile feature in DVDP and as such you have:
A: The 2 disc edition profile with 2 child profiles and those profiles are part of the 2 disc edition profile's, box set content list.
B: Each child profile is uniqly identified within DVDP's disc id system.
So, you have:
- UPC, the 2 disc edition
- - Disc id, the main feature disc
- - Disc id, the bonus material disc

Now lets say that the 2 disc edition is in fact, a keep-case.

Now to the question.
How do you use the Case Type field for these disc id child profiles?
A. I set it to the exact same value as what is specified in the parent profile.
B. I set it to something other then what is specified in the parent profile.
C. I set it to nothing.

Options:
D. I contribute the changed field to the Invelos main database.
E. I lock the field.

Thanks for your time!
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Maybe I am missing something here... but if there is only 1 movie it wouldn't be a boxset at all. A main feature disc and a bonus disc don't make for a boxset per Rules.

So the way it sounds to me if you want it as a boxset you must go with option E (locking it and keeping it local) And as for the rest it would be whatever you like the best since it would be a local only choice.
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Regardless of the bonus disc issue, for box sets I always set the case type to match the cover scan since their use are defined by the rules. So if the child profile displays the same cover as the parent, then it's a keep case + slip cover or whatever the parent profile uses. If it's a picture of an individual case, I set the case type accordingly. So the question can only be answered er... case by case. 
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorT!M
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Quoting Addicted2DVD:
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A main feature disc and a bonus disc don't make for a boxset per Rules.

Agreed: in these case it is not allowed to create a profile for the Bonus Material disc. Instead, you only add the bonus disc's data and it's disc ID to the main profile.
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As has been noted by Pete and T!M, this is 100% against the rules so you can't contribute it.

That being said, if I were to do this, I would keep the case type the same and lock it down.  Anything with 'D' is a non-option.
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Quoting TheMadMartian:
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As has been noted by Pete and T!M, this is 100% against the rules so you can't contribute it.

I have to agree with the three of you
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DVD Profiler Unlimited Registrantxyrano
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Quoting Addicted2DVD:
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Maybe I am missing something here... but if there is only 1 movie it wouldn't be a boxset at all. A main feature disc and a bonus disc don't make for a boxset per Rules.

So the way it sounds to me if you want it as a boxset you must go with option E (locking it and keeping it local) And as for the rest it would be whatever you like the best since it would be a local only choice.

Okay, in retrospect it does look like I picked a flawed example and my question disapears in discussions about boxset per Rules. I should have picked something known to be a valid boxset instead. My bad!
I wonder what the response would have been if I had posted this, with a better example, in the general forum instead.

However, I did look for a rule about Case type for child profiles that is a disc but I could not find it. So I was curious what others do with that field.

Quoting KinoNiki:
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Regardless of the bonus disc issue, for box sets I always set the case type to match the cover scan since their use are defined by the rules. So if the child profile displays the same cover as the parent, then it's a keep case + slip cover or whatever the parent profile uses. If it's a picture of an individual case, I set the case type accordingly. So the question can only be answered er... case by case. 

Interesting! Thanks!

Quoting T!M:
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Quoting Addicted2DVD:
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A main feature disc and a bonus disc don't make for a boxset per Rules.

Agreed: in these case it is not allowed to create a profile for the Bonus Material disc. Instead, you only add the bonus disc's data and it's disc ID to the main profile.

??? Wait! Are you really... No, You can't be serious! You had a long week, right!? Sorry, I couldn't resist 

Quoting TheMadMartian:
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As has been noted by Pete and T!M, this is 100% against the rules so you can't contribute it.

Oh, don't worry! I wont!

Quoting TheMadMartian:
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That being said, if I were to do this, I would keep the case type the same and lock it down.  Anything with 'D' is a non-option.

Okay, thanks!

Here is my view.
When I look at a DVD I see minimum of 3 objects.
- a case
- a cover
- a disc

As I use DVDP to "Profile" this DVD, it can only identify 2 of these objects. The cover and the disc.
The cover has a UPC code and the disc an uniqe number. The case then becomes a property of the profile I just created using the UPC code. The created profile now becomes the main focus. The disc can be added to the Disc id list of the profile. I can also add the cover but I would split it into two parts (and for a good reason).

If I instead look at a 2-Disc set (of sorts) I see 4 objects.
Same as above but that it has 2 discs. Here we can also choose to do child profiles for the discs.
In that case, I would have a profile we all have come to call "Parent profile" and then the 2 discs as child profiles.

Since the 2 child profiles are discs, why would I put something in the case type field?

I best remind all that I will NOT contribute something that is against the rules. Although, I have difficult of finding a rule about this   
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorVirusPil
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Case type same as parent*, except those examples where the discs are hold seperately in a different case type.
For example:
- Box with included evelopes
- Slip case with included Keep cases
or similar.

*As for example a Keep Case with different discs in I'd keep the keep case also for the childs.

As the case type is defined as "type of packaging in which the DVD is released", I think this is the most logical.
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