Okay, but the TV Series Mapping will be missing on the Parent and will be tagged as Improvable. Will not be able to set those on the Parent since it is two separate TV Series.

I have a question i am trying to add a boxset (anime classics Australia 9322225016552) and when I try to contribute I get an error message saying "It is not allowed to contribute a box set with existing titles as children. Please see the contribution guidelines for box sets.", I don't really understand what this means as the child titles are all 0 barcodes as per the guidelines because there is only a barcode on the outer box. Someone else created the title with a scan of the box but wrong info in the description and other info that should not be in a box set like the audio, aspect ratio and other data, and without any child items for the movies, so I had to remove the extra data and then redid the scans, added the correct description then added the child movies from the series/box set button. Have I done something wrong here as I followed the guidelines as far as I can tell but I don't understand the error message so I can't really find the info i am looking for in the guides.

Hi andy,
Recently I created 2 box sets.
-PREDATOR 3 - MOVIE COLLECTION (UK version barcode : 5039036089203)
-X-MEN 3 - FILM COLLECTION (US version barcode : 024543558798)
Both are Single Box Sets (so box set containing individual discs within one box as explained in "Box Set Contribution Guide")

By creating, I mean I added the 3 children tittles for both.
Because, like for dero09, "someone else created the title with a scan of the box but wrong info in the description and other info that should not be in a box set like the audio, aspect ratio and other data, and without any child items for the movies, so I had to remove the extra data and then redid the scans, added the correct description then added the child movies from the series/box set button".

It was OK , the 2 box sets were correctly created in the iphone, showing the children tiltles inside their own box sets containers.
And suddenly the 3 children tittles have been separated in the iphone/ipad application from their box sets containers.
So now, on my iphone, I see 4 titles (the box set container and the 3 children tittles).
May be, after to have contributed to the box set, I contributed separately to the children tittles inside (to be honest I don't remember), so creating standalone items (as you explained to dero09)?
But what I am sure is that I didn't contributed to the children tittles before assembling the box set because those individual tilles didn't yet exist at that time.

It already happenned one time some weeks ago with PREDATOR and I was obligied to create again the 3 children titles.
Because they were not only separed in the iphone but also disapearing from the box set in "My movie - Collection Management".
This time, as I locked the 2 box sets in "my movie collection management", I don't have to create again the children tittles.

What did I do wrong ?
And how can I do to find back how it was just after to have contributed ?

Thks&Brgds

After to have created the box set adding the children tittles (that I fully filled), I contributed to the service.

Yes, you're right.
Just after to have posted here Friday, I found in my spam box an E-mail from carl2005 (dated from Oct 3rd) rejecting my contribution for Predator.
But nothing about X-Men.
If I try again to create the box set, will I have to fill again all the information for the children ?

Ok I tried again for Predator box set...I hope I did it correctly this time..

While your box set is pending approval you should be able to go to each child individually and click contribute cover and it should be appended to your existing box set contribution that I can see is pending approval without covers on the childs.

Sounds like with your first attempt you struck the same problem as me that I described here: https://www.mymovies.dk/forum.aspx?g=posts&t=44591
This is where the webservice will reject a boxset contribution when the boxset container (parent title) has the exact same covers that are already on the webservice. I've suggested they have the webservice ignore this fact if it is part of a boxset contribution as using existing titles as the boxset container is a suggested method in the creation of a boxset so you are going to strike this error if you follow the instructions on this site. I worked around it in my contribution by removing one row of pixels from the top of the front cover of the existing parent title and included that adjusted cover in my boxset contribution so that technically it's cover was different to what was on the server even though to the eye it looked identical. This was enough to satisfy the validation of the webservice and it accepted my contribution including all of the child title covers.

Note I specifically said while the full box set is pending approval and only then.

If you contribute the childs individually when the box set doesn't exist you will create them as standalones which you don't want to do. But if you contribute to a child after contributing the full box set while it is pending approval that should append to the existing box set.

If you contribute the full box set, then while it is pending approval go to one of the childs and make a data or cover contribution on that child it will be appended to the box set contribution pending approval.

If you contribute the childs separately when the full box set does not already exist, either pending approval or already approved, then you would create standalones which you should not do.

So if you contributed the full box set selecting only data, you should be able to then go to each child and contribute the covers one by one from each child to add them to that pending full box set contribution.

If a full box set already exists and is approved you would contribute from each profile individually.

This is in effect why you can contribute from the individual childs on a pending set, the pending box set exists so the contribution is appended to the pending contribution. However if is declined you would then need to contribute the full box set from the parent again.

The step of contributing the full box set only applies on the creation of the full box set.