Please introduce a Name Reference View for the new platform.Note: This conversation was created from a reply on: Updates to Title Reference View.
Posted 2 years ago
Col Needham, Official Rep
I wish to have the possibility to toggle between work section view and overall chronological view.
Or maybe: chronological view by default, and the possibility to filter on work departments or functions.
Or maybe: chronological view by default, and the possibility to filter on work departments or functions.
Absolutely agree. That would be so great to have that !
In addition to what I wrote above, a name reference view should waste less space. Example, for Sean Connery it is better to display his acting credits like this:
Goldfinger (1964) ... James Bond
From Russia with Love (1963) ... James Bond
Dr. No (1962) ... James Bond
rather than the current
A helpful programmer here (can't remember the name, unfortunately, but thanks again!) provided me with a JavaScript bookmarklet which makes name pages look like this (still Sean Connery):
Rather than
That's about three times as many credits on one page of information than the current view gives, so much easier to navigate, easier to read and follow and overall much more informative. Something akin to that, expanding all sections by default, would be close to a perfect reference view for me. Although I would very much like the menus and stuff in the right column to take up less screen place too, but that's a different discussion...
Goldfinger (1964) ... James Bond
From Russia with Love (1963) ... James Bond
Dr. No (1962) ... James Bond
rather than the current
Goldfinger 1964 James Bond
From Russia with Love 1963
James Bond
Dr. No 1962 James Bond
A helpful programmer here (can't remember the name, unfortunately, but thanks again!) provided me with a JavaScript bookmarklet which makes name pages look like this (still Sean Connery):
Rather than
That's about three times as many credits on one page of information than the current view gives, so much easier to navigate, easier to read and follow and overall much more informative. Something akin to that, expanding all sections by default, would be close to a perfect reference view for me. Although I would very much like the menus and stuff in the right column to take up less screen place too, but that's a different discussion...
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I strongly support this proposal!
That "helpful programmer" was me.
Yes it was, Jeorj. And I really appreciate it! :)
Just an additional thought on this, since I can no longer edit the original post; an official reference view should add a little bit of spacing here and there between credits, so as not to look like a huge wall of text (which it will on some prolific people), and the most useful way to do that would be to reintroduce what was on the old reference view; a space between credits on a decade to decade basis. Other than that I do honestly feel that a one-credit-per-line view would be the best way to effectively convey the credits on a name page.
