What Changes When You Rename a Production Group
A production group name appears in two places in the schedule: the group name in the grouped view and the badge shown on each shooting day. After a rename, both places should show the new name; after a group is deleted, only the first disappears, and the old badge on a shooting day may remain.
Renaming a group updates both the group list and the badges on existing shooting days; deleting a group only removes it from the grouped list.
Rename updates both places
After a rename, the grouped list shows the new name, and the badge on every shooting day that belongs to that group also shows the new name. The visible verification therefore has two parts: return to the grouped view and check the number of shooting days under that group, then open any one of those days and inspect the badge; both places should show the new name.
If the interface is currently showing the old group view when the rename occurs, it returns to the “All” view afterward. This only moves the current view back to an available level after the rename and does not mean that “All” is itself a production-group name; it is the view level that shows the project’s shooting days together.
Deleting a group is different from renaming it
Deleting a group removes it from the grouped list, but it does not delete the shooting days that belonged to it. After deletion, that group no longer appears in the grouped list and its count disappears, while those shooting days can still be found in the “All” view and their day badges can still display the old group name.
The delete confirmation reads “Deleting this unit will permanently remove all associated settings. This action cannot be undone.” — note that the interface’s own word for a group is unit. “Settings” should be read against the result visible in the interface, not expanded into an added claim that shooting days are deleted too. The receiver should compare the grouped list with the “All” view to distinguish a group disappearing from the list from an actual change to the shooting-day records.
After deleting a group, the receiver should verify both the grouped list and the “All” view: the group disappears from the first, while shooting days with the old badge can remain visible in the second.
“All” is only a view level
“All” shows the shooting days in the project and is not an ordinary production-group name. The group-selection row appears when a new shooting day is created from the “All” level; when creation starts from a specific group view, that row is not shown, so the group cannot be changed from that form at that moment.
This is also why the “All” view is the place to look for old shooting days after a group is deleted. The grouped list controls which group names are still offered, while the badge on a shooting day controls what that day displays; when deletion changes only the first place, the second can still leave a visible trace.
This reference-update rule applies to group names
Do not extend the group rename behavior to other identifiers. Changing an episode number or scene number does not follow the same rule, so “renaming carries into references” should be treated as a rule for production-group names here; Scene, Shot, and Take Numbers Explained covers the roles of the other visible numbers separately.
Before sending a handoff after a rename, repeat the two-part check: confirm the number of shooting days under the renamed group, then open one day and verify its badge shows the new name. What the App Fills In Before You Type covers defaulted values elsewhere in the record flow, but those defaults should not be merged with this group-name rewrite behavior.
FAQ
Why does renaming a group affect shooting days that were already scheduled?
Because the group name appears both in the grouped list and on each shooting day’s badge; after a rename both places show the new name, so already-scheduled days change with it.
How can the two places be checked after a rename?
Check the number of shooting days under the group in the grouped view, then open any one day and inspect its badge; both should show the new name.
Does deleting a group also delete those shooting days?
No. Deletion only removes the group from the grouped list; the existing shooting days can still appear in the “All” view and their badges can continue to show the old group name.
Is “All” a special production group?
“All” is a view level that shows the project’s shooting days, not an ordinary group name; the group-selection row appears only when creating a day from that level.
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