Many thanks (again) for all your hard work!!     

Is there a way to import a list of movies by title using this plugin ? I read the directions and couldn't find exactly what I needed, but your plugin seems to be the closest to what I would need to get the bulk of our colelction entered into DVD Profiler. Or would it be possible to code a change (w/o too much effort on your part) to allow such an import ? We have over 600 titles and most on BD, so mlutiple possible selections shouldn't be a problem (for the majority of them). . I went into more detail in our thread on this topic in the Tech Support section, but in a nutshell the UPC route is a non-option for us at this time, so I am stuck with our Excel spreadsheet of titles (which I can export to a CSV, or other flat file). I can also export to XML if needed, but right now only have the title, media (BD or DVD) and region in our spreadsheet.

TIA for the favor of your reponse

I had played around with the bulk edit CSV component, but wasn't sure if I could truncate the headers like that and still get it to work. I will give that a try this evening. Once I import the framework of the profiles (movie title and media type) I hope to be able to have DVD Profiler go out and grab the syhnopsis, box art, etc to populate the rest of the fields. We will see how lucky I get.

Thanks 

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I just started using this plugin because I've been spending some time trying to organize my collection better lately... anyhow... i have a few questions

I tried the excel export, it doesn't work, says file not found

BulkEdit creates an XML file and then "executes" it. Whatever program you have associated with .xml should try to load it. I use Notepad. If you associate Excel with .xml, then Excel should pop up with the file loaded. The file is called export.xml and is located in the folder {DVDPRO}\plugins\BulkEdit\. This file should be identical to what you get with the Profiler export - it only in BulkEdit for convenience. At one time I had intended to make a round-trip process, but it was too hard. Instead, I created XML and CSV import. Theoretically, you could edit the XML with Excel and then re-import to BulkEdit, but Exel screws up the formatting of numeric strings, such as Profile ID. I gave up messing with it.

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second... when editing genres is there a way to remove a genre and leave the box empty...

Edit: I found a way. It is not obvious. If you use the Multi-Copy tool, you can copy a blank cell to any number of selected target cells, with the "Overwrite" option. Kind of obtuse way of doing it, but it is a workaround to the fact that I forgot to add the blank field to the Genre drop-down.

So, (1) select any blank Genre field in a column not the same as the target column and (2) Ctrl-select all the target cells you want to clear, then use Multi-Copy with Overwrite. Multi-Copy figures out which is the source (single cell in a unique column). All other cells are presumed to be targets.

You just reminded me. I have a pending update. Still chasing one bug, but I forgot about it for the last few days. When I get back on it, maybe I can work in the change, even though I guess you won't need it by then.

Thanks for the feedback... and the plugin... even if im late... work goes up and down... so I can use your update... thanks for it... it will make life easier.

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Sadly I do not think this will work... it will create manual profiles... which do not update from the main database... they are usually used for custom discs, home movies, etc.... 

Thanks for clarifying that. When I said that I thought that it wouldn't be much use without the UPCs, I forgot to say why! That's why.

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Thanks for the feedback... and the plugin... even if im late... work goes up and down...
so I can use your update... thanks for it... it will make life easier.

Oh man, I had totally forgotten about that conversation. Anyway, the update has been made. I fixed that bug, and now you can enter blank Genre (although I have forgotten why you needed it). Anyway, as others have said - good luck.

By the way, if you did add an extra column "Profile ID" and put in the UPC.locality, you will get profiles that in fact will download from Invelos. Maybe try a few that way, try manual entry with a barcode scanner. Invite all your friends over with their PCs, and get each person to do 25, backup their database onto a USB drive. Load them all into your master database. Before you know it, they'll all be in!

(Seems like I might have my quotes out of whack - sorry, got kinda lost in the thread. I hpoe what I said made sense anyway).

needed it so that i can correct mistakes... either that I made or that came down... some movies only need 1 genre... not 3 or now 5...

It's all good...hopefully work will allow me some time next week to resume getting my Genre's strait

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Hi, I have a strange bug when Bulkedit is activated :

Here's the sequence :

1. Start DVDP
2. Close the Welcome page
3. Filter for title "battle"
4. Expend boxset "Battlestar Galactica season 3"
5. Right-clic on disc 1 and select "View Historiy"
6. Clic on "OK"
7. Clic on the parent profile as soon as the history window is starting to fade away.

And then I get the HRESULT : 0x8000FFFF (E_UNEXPECTED)) error.

It appens other times, but that's the sequence I know for sure.

Any idea ?

Good grief. How in the world do you manage 6+7. I'm not fast enough. Anyway, I can't repproduce it with the Matrix boxset - at least not so far. And I never see the welcome page. Is that a required part of the sequence?

There is a small amount of code that is event-driven, that runs when Profiler switches to a new DVD. Perhaps certain key sequences happen too fast for the event to complete. Are you running an automated script (AutoIt) or doing this manually? I couldn't get my hand to move that fast ...