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Linking Products to Albums
This tutorial teaches how to link products to album pages. This function is reserved for Trusted Editors and above. If you are not a trusted editor, but would like an album to be linked to its products, then please post in the album's thread, and somebody will link it for you.
If you've ever linked an album to its artist pages, then this process will be very familiar to you. However, there is one additional step to the process. To start the process, select "Manage Products" under an album's edit menu. 1) Assigning Products The first step is to assign products to the album. The list of products to assign comes from parsing the album's product field, which are separated by commas. If a product's name contains a comma, you may have to assign it under a partial name, and link it manually to the correct product ID in step 2 below. Just like artists, once products are assigned, the product list on the album page is overridden, and further edits their don't display. 2) Linking Products Step 2 is linking the assigned products to their existing Title pages. You always link to a Title page, though in a later step, you can associate a specific Release. Currently, you cannot link to Franchise pages. In this example, only one of our three games has an existing product page. Note that there are actually multiple returns for "Air", because we have a product page for the movie, the game, and the TV series. Multiple results are always returned in a Red box, which will not link unless you click the Apply checkbox. In this case, we want to link to the game Air, which is the first one. 3a) Choosing Classifications Now our album is linked, and the links show on the album page. The final step is to classify the relationship the album has with this product. Does it contain a soundtrack? Is it an arrangement? Is it just a drama with some of the characters? This is important to allow the reader to filter the albums on a product's page to just show those of interest. Commonly, this will be used to filter out doujins. In this example, I've selected Fan Arrange in the Classification window, because this is a doujin album containing arrangements from these games. Note that you have to manually click the Apply Checkbox, or alternatively the "Check All" checkbox before pushing the update button. The selector allows multiple choices. Presently, if you skip this step, the relationship will be listed as "Unclassified". I'd like to find a way to automatically determine this in some cases, but this will require some more thought. Here is a brief explanation of the classifications:
3b) Choosing Releases During this same step, you can also choose to link to a specific release (or to multiple releases). Please see the Product Submission Tutorial to learn more about releases. If you choose a single release, the link on the album page will take you straight to that release page. For an album that links to multiple releases, I intend for this to be indicated in the display somehow, but I'm still mulling over the options. |
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Can Trusted Editors really edit this yet?
Last edited by Nisto; Apr 1, 2012 at 04:20 PM. |
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Soon. I'll be making the changes to the code tonight.
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Heh, I suspected that since there's even a guide now.
I just assigned my first product, and I'm liking it Thanks Secret Squirrel. |
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I feel we have to consider one or two more things than linking artists. For artists, we'd basically keep the assigned texts matched to the original texts (if not, click the Propagate button), but for products, it's not so simple, since the texts are also used by our DB to seek "Related albums".
For instance, the product of this entry should definitely be "NieR Replicant", not NieR, because the contents of the drama is based on the Nier Replicant side of things where the "boy" Nier is the protagonist. On the other hand, I think it's better to keep the field text as "Nier" to make it related to other entries. I'd still sometimes use different titles for releases, if each release has dozen of albums (e.g. anime 1st and 2nd seasons), as I think 10 is the threshold for Related Albums unless we implement the page index for the section. |
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The "related albums" section should not solely depend on the text in the product field anyhow, we should make it configurable. |
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I remember Carl or somebody else suggested it years ago, and I also want that badly. A possible problem I see is it could be a tad too arbitrary (since 'related' is such subjective criteria we could associate one album with tons of other album). It might have to be premise on a conversion of our album pages; we could use a tab layout or such.
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For now, I'll strike the text advising people to use the reverse-propagate button, since using it can interfere with how the album editor set things up.
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Quite an interesting change. It's not too difficult to use, so I'll make the most of it.
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I observed that several Touhou arrangement albums (example) contain remixes of tracks previously available in other albums, that is, fan remixes of fan arrangements. Does that mean we should classify the relationship of that remix with a specific product as "Fan Remix" or just as "Fan Arrange"?
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Last night I fixed a whole mess of incorrect product classifications on albums, so I want to make a note here so it hopefully happens less in the future. The system makes it really easy to make this specific mistake: I fixed albums linked by like 7 or 8 different users, including MYSELF one time.
When you link a licensed fan arrangement or remix album from Loudr/etc. that's set as Commercial, not Doujin, the product will be automatically classified as Arrange or Remix. This is incorrect, and you should manually change it to Fan Arrange or Fan Remix. Please take the time to verify that fan albums are linked properly, so that (1) we have correct data and (2) people who want to filter them out from product pages can do so successfully. Thanks. |
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ok, late reply to chz's post
why not adding "fan arrangement" in the classification? it could directly link to fan arrange no? since there are stuff like cd+dvd and cd+bd for a certain type of submissions, why not that (i.e. fan arrangement) or auto-classifying doujin as fan arrangement? (don't know if there is another classification used for doujin, which isn't arrangement) Last edited by Phonograph; Sep 3, 2014 at 11:27 PM. |
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Why is the feature only available to trusted editors and above?
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I don't know, but with the amount of games being released these days it doesn't make too much sense IMO. Most of my posts involve asking trusted editors to add games to the database for a particular release or linking albums with existing entries. I think all users should be allowed to add games and link them but only trusted editors to add artists. As of now, it is the other way around and I think it makes the cataloging less efficient.
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I think that opening up Product submission is a possibility in the future, but linking will always be restricted. Linking games or artists is both complicated for the user and difficult to cleanly roll-back when moderating submissions. We never really found a good balance there. Also, even submitting products, and understanding the difference between products/franchises/releases is a little confusing and requires some training.
One thing I am open too is adding more trusted editors. I would like to have some more people who are interested in maintaining and expanding our product pages, but we don't really get much opportunity to evaluate people unless they are submitting albums or artists, which is why it has been slow to happen. |
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let's add more inactive trusted editors, I think it lacks a lot for the site =) |
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