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Connecting ChatGPT

Connect ChatGPT on the web to your FilmScorecard account through its developer mode, then ask it about your festivals in plain words.

Once it is connected, ChatGPT can look through what your own screens show you (submissions, judges, scorecards, awards, judge pay and settings) and answer questions about it. It acts as you, so it reaches exactly what you reach and nothing more, and it can change only three things: a film's status, your own flag, and Priority. Everything a connected app can do is in Connecting an AI app.

Before you start

  • Your organization needs AI access. FilmScorecard switches it on one organization at a time. To check, open Your profile in the menu behind your name and choose the Connections tab: if ChatGPT's row offers How to connect, you have it. If the AI apps card says "AI access isn't on for your organization yet", press Request AI access: it opens our contact form with the request already written. See Connections.

  • ChatGPT on the web, on a plan that offers developer mode. ChatGPT adds apps of your own only in developer mode. If a workspace manages your ChatGPT, its administrator may have to allow it.

  • The address. Every app needs the same one. ChatGPT's steps on the Connections tab show it with a Copy button beside it:

    https://www.filmscorecard.com/api/mcp

There is no key, token or password to copy anywhere. ChatGPT never sees your sign-in code: FilmScorecard gives it a pass of its own when you allow it, and you can take that back at any time.

ChatGPT may warn you that developer mode lets an app change things. That is true of developer mode in general. FilmScorecard's app can change only the three things above, and nothing else, whatever ChatGPT asks of it.

Connecting ChatGPT

  1. Turn on developer mode. Open Settings, then Apps, then Advanced settings, and turn on Developer mode.
  2. Create the app. Back in Apps, choose Create. Name it FilmScorecard, paste the address as the MCP server URL, and set Authentication to OAuth. A description is optional.
  3. Confirm and create. Confirm that you trust the app, and create it. Your browser opens on FilmScorecard.
  4. Sign in, if FilmScorecard asks. If you are not signed in to FilmScorecard in that browser, you get the log-in screen first. Sign in with your emailed code as usual (see Logging in), and you come straight back.
  5. Check the request. The connection page asks whether to let the app in. It shows the app's name, with "wants to connect to your account." under it; Will act as, which is the address you sign in with; and It can, which reads "read and update festival data you already have access to". Make sure it names ChatGPT, the app you just added. If you did not just start connecting an app, press Deny, and nothing is connected.
  6. Press Allow. Your browser goes back to ChatGPT, and the app is connected.

ChatGPT moves its menus from time to time. If yours do not match these steps, look for developer mode first, then for creating an app or connector from an MCP server URL.

To check it worked, open the Connections tab on your account screen: ChatGPT reads Connected, with the date you allowed it.

Using it

Start a new chat, make sure the FilmScorecard app is switched on for it, and ask about your festivals the way you would ask a colleague. For example:

  • "Which festivals and seasons can you see in FilmScorecard?"
  • "Give me an overview of this season's submissions and judging."
  • "List the films in this season that are still In Consideration."
  • "Mark these three films as Priority."

ChatGPT starts by finding your festivals, because every other question names an organization, a festival or a season. If you belong to more than one, say which one you mean.

It changes only three things, and a status move is always previewed first. Before any film moves between In Consideration, Selected and Not Selected, FilmScorecard shows ChatGPT exactly which films would move, and nothing changes until ChatGPT asks again to confirm. Each tool that changes something is marked as doing so, and ChatGPT can use that mark to ask you first. See Moving films between statuses.

A change ChatGPT makes is the same change you would make on the Submissions screen, made as you. Your colleagues see it on their own screens when their list next refreshes.

For more to ask, and habits that get better answers, see Using an AI app.

If something goes wrong

What you seeWhat to do
There is no Developer mode in ChatGPT's settingsYour plan may not offer it, or your workspace administrator has not allowed it.
There is no way to create an app, or no OAuth choice for authenticationDeveloper mode is off, or ChatGPT has moved the setting. Turn developer mode on, then look again under Apps.
"AI access isn't enabled for your organization.", with Deny and no AllowNone of your organizations has AI access, or you are signed in on an account that belongs to no organization, such as a judge's. Press Deny so ChatGPT stops waiting, then press Request AI access on your Connections tab.
"This connection request has expired or was already answered. Start again from your AI app."A request does not last long and can be answered once. Connect the app in ChatGPT again.
"This connection request is incomplete. Start again from your AI app."The page was opened from a bookmark or typed by hand. Connect the app in ChatGPT again.
"That didn't go through. Try again."Your answer did not reach FilmScorecard. Press Allow again. If it keeps happening, start again from ChatGPT.
ChatGPT says it was told "Too many calls in the last minute. Wait a moment and try again."Each person can make 120 calls a minute across every app they have connected. Wait a moment. See 120 calls a minute.
ChatGPT says it was told "AI access isn't enabled for this organization."AI access for that organization has been switched off since you connected. See When AI access is switched off.
ChatGPT says it was told "That needs … and your role doesn't include it."Your role does not reach that screen, so ChatGPT cannot either. See When the app is refused.

Disconnecting ChatGPT

  1. Open Your profile in the menu behind your name, and choose the Connections tab.
  2. On ChatGPT's row, press the amber Disconnect beside the connection.
  3. Press the amber Disconnect in the dialog.

ChatGPT is refused from its next request. To use it again, connect the app in ChatGPT again, and FilmScorecard asks you again.

Deleting the app in ChatGPT's own settings takes it out of ChatGPT, but FilmScorecard keeps listing the connection until you disconnect it on the Connections tab. To tidy up completely, do both.

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