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Wednesday, October 2nd, 2024 8:57 AM

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New Submission Email Format - suggestions for small improvements

I see that from 1 October 2024 the format of the submission-confirmation email has been changed. The new format looks good.

I've just got a couple of suggestions that might make it easier to go to the relevant title/person entry more easily:

- For TV episodes as opposed to films, give the whole series/episode-title/episode-number, rather than only the episode title with no indication of which series it relates to. For example: "Sexton Blake" (1967) {The Find The Lady Affair: Part 1 - The Lady Vanishes (#1.1)} rather than The Find The Lady Affair: Part 1 - The Lady Vanishes. Alternatively you could list it as:

Series: "Sexton Blake" (1967)

Episode: The Find The Lady Affair: Part 1 - The Lady Vanishes

Number: 1.1

ideally with the field values lined up vertically.

 

- Make the "View Status of this Contribution" link more visually obvious (maybe a button with "IMDB yellow" background) and put a copy of it at the top of the details of the submission as well as at the bottom, so it is not necessary to scroll to the bottom of what may be a long list in order to find the link.

- (This may already have been done) In the old format, corrections or additions to an episode title or number were not listed in the email. Have you added this, together with relevant "has it been actioned yet?" tracking, for the new format? I've not submitted an episode title change since the new format was introduced, so I can't tell.

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6 days ago

Hi @martin_695862,

Thank you for your feedback. I have passed this on to the relevant team for review.

Cheers!

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I see that you have reverted today to sending the old-format emails. Probably a wise decision until the issue of the missing TV series and episode number has been resolved.

The button that I referred to in my second bullet pooint could be labelled "Track Contribution", just like the old one is. No need to make unecessary user-interface changes ;-)

Feel free to merge my thread with any others that people have started - though I didn't find any, surprisingly.