GCstar forums - Index number

Hello,

Could you please give more information about what features/changes you request then.

So you would only need a new numeric field to store an identifier. It could be easily added. I just need some time to do this and try to put it in the better place. So if anyone else want to do so, do not hesitate.

Actually I have the same problem

I bought a giant 2000-disks case. Each sleeve contains 8 slots. Each slot is numbered (1-2001). This kind of case saves a lot of room but the problem is finding stuff in it afterwards, so something like GCStar could be a life-saver.

Sometimes I shuffle the sleeves or insert new disks moving others to make place which causes renumbering

To support my case I need to :
1. associate a slot number to each disk,
2. have the app handle reshuffling graciously (ie x elements inserted at position foo, add/remove x to the slot nombers of the following elements)
3. mark sleeve boundaries. It is somewhat desirable to have each element of a dvd set in the same sleeve, so right now I use a speadsheet that highlights every 8th line

If I had to generalize the model I'd say:

1. people have a set of physical containers (rows of shelves, cases with sleeves, etc). All the containers may not be of the same type
2. each container has sub-containers (shelves, sleeves) that can only contain a fixed number of elements (slots). So a container is a sequence of identical sub-containers. Each sub-container can be labelled with the range it contains
3. each slot has a unique number within the container

The problem is helping users manage the (container,number) associated with each disk