Vista Film Setup
Movie IDs: TMDB | IMDB
Theater Toolkit uses a code you enter into the feature setup in VISTA explicitly to identify a film and allow us to map assets to the listing. This code allows us to directly match films regardless of the name or other settings used. To do this you simply update features in VISTA. The Theater Toolkit platform takes over from there.
When setting up a film, enter the TMDB ID in the “External Code” field of the film information in VISTA. If you have a custom entry that doesn’t have a TMDB record, you will simply leave it blank. It will not match, and we will not assign any details to the listing unless our platform finds a custom override record to use.
Example: for the film “12 Years a Slave”, I search the film title on TMDB and find the film page is https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/76203-12-years-a-slave. The ID needed is the number between the “/movie/” section and the next “-“of the URL. Pull 76203 as the code and enter it into External Code field. Theater Toolkit will use this code (76203) from that field to correctly map to the feature details in our platform.
IMDB vs TMDB
If the film information can be found in TMDB, you could use an IMDB id in its place. Theater Toolkit will map known films using the IMDB field as long as that film is already known to Theater Toolkit, and the IMDB is mapped. If you use a TMDB id, the Theater Toolkit system will import films it doesn’t already have automatically.
Either way, if you run into an issue loading a film with the values set, please contact support.
