Collaborations
Collaborations are a common feature of events. Whether it's musicians working together, or you're holding a panel on a subject.
Setting up a collaboration is simple.
Start by setting the artist's name to whatever you want people to see for this collaboration.
Now enable the Collaboration check box. You'll see a Set Artists button appear.
Clicking it will bring up the Collaboration window.
Please add each artist.
So if you have MC Fresh Laundry & DJ Cheesy Chops ft. GuyFromThePub as the artist name, there would be 3 entries:
- MC Fresh Laundry
- DJ Cheesy Chops
- GuyFromThePub
Unless MC Fresh Laundry & DJ Cheesy Chops is the proper name of the act, in which case you'd have 2 entries:
- MC Fresh Laundry & DJ Cheesy Chops
- GuyFromThePub
The collaboration system is useful for many performance slots, such as back to back DJ sets, or if you're holding a discussion panel etc.
Make sure you include the moderator/host, along with each guest.
Clicking the X next to a collaborator will remove them.
Here's a quick video showing hot two set up a collaboration:
Musicbrainz
To correctly set the Musicbrainz ID for a collaborator, enter their name in the text input, and then click MBID.
The Musicbrainz picker window will use that text to search for a matching artist.
This window functions the same as when setting the ID for a normal artist.
When an ID has been set the MBID button will be tinted green.
Viewing collaborations
When a user views information on this artist/performance they will initially see information about the first artist in the list.
Collaborators are displayed below collaborations in the artist list, when viewing a planner on the website.
This allows a user to directly get information about a collaborator, as it opens the artist info with the chosen collaborator already selected.