option to copy a show or poster through multiple dates

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Hmmm :)
I'm love to be lazy, so I get it.. but, won't it be even better if this could be setup in a different way?

Hang on.. it's late, I just got back from Germany and had a a long weekend, and my German sounds like a drunk Dutch soap-opera :) so.. if this is gonna sound weird, I'll rewrite it tomorrow.

Layered it would be better if you wouldn't be able to copy it thru different shows, but make it a relational link between artist and events.

Artist ID
Tour-name ID

Venue + Artist ID + Tour-name ID, and you got your copy.

This would mean that the tour information would be a fixed element of the artist page so it can be selected while adding an event. A possibility to copy an image to multiple events (tour or not .. which can't be defined) brings the risk of 'false'duplication when importing from other sites or silly mistakes made by humans (actually.. all silly mistakes are made by humans :)).

Does this all make any sense?

TC,
,Mark

Hey Mark!

That does make sense.
I was thinking something a bit simpler - maybe a hyperlink below or next to the date selector that asks if there will be a date span - kind of like if you book a flight for a one-way vs a round trip. So if you click it, another calendar pops up and you can select the last date and when you update, the system would have created a new and identical event 01, 02, 03, etc for those dates. The same concept for adding posters.
I am not so familiar with more complex levels of programming so your idea may be the smarter and more ideal solution. :)
Hope you get rest after the long weekend!

xx

Seriously, a weekend should 4 days long, at least :) German mini beer-festivals are murder for your brain, liver and stamina :)

Wow.. cool, you basically said exactly the same thing as I did.. only I tried to a vague database linkage to explain my point.

Let me rewrite it a bit.

Let's say we take my current favorite group that made me jump and smile a two and half hours long.
"Chef's Special" (which reminds me.. got some movies to add there and even some other press content.. hmmm.. let's finish this first :)).

Chef's Special as a page has it's basic content. Flicks, pics and comments. Now, if the Artist would go on a tour.. it would get and extra bit of info.
Make the tour an special element that you can ad your tour-info/promo/pictures to.

(now we get to the part us lazy people love)
Now, if I would add an concert to Chef's Special I should be able to select the Tour element and thus including the tour-info/promo & pictures.

No dates, no multiple clicks, less work and I think it might be even a bit more tidy in the end (but.. that it more a matter of opinion).

Yeah.. I totally agree with you.. this is a must have for us lazy folks :)

Haha, well it sounds like you had a debaucherous long weekend that needs a weekend to recover!
And yes, we both basically have the same idea... and the lazy people will be rejoicing!

xx

Hey guys,

Thanks for the suggestions :)

We've had a few requests for this kind of thing - especially the ability to add multiple shows in one go to save having to enter the same information again and again. So it's something we're keeping in mind.

In terms of making it easier to add tours in general, including your idea about the content - this sounds like an interesting idea. We initially designed the process of adding events to be as simple as possible and for one major case - i.e. adding a show/festival. Being able to add tours as you suggest is something that isn't in our immediate plans, but it is the kind of thing we'll be taking into consideration when we revisit the way uploading events is dealt with.

Thanks again for the feedback!

Emily.

Cool thanks! For me personally, it would be nice to just copy the dates for the posters and multi[le shows to save in uploading times - so that is why I suggested it.
The tours may not make as much sense but perhaps in the future there might be a clean way to make that work.

xx

Currently, it would seem that if a user added the same poster for mulitple shows within a tour, then each instance of that poster added will show up in both the User's image folder as duplicates, as well as in the Artist's main image directory. This is not simply a matter of laziness (or efficiency, as I prefer to call it!)