Done the testing on clone to Manual ID, nice touch the locality choice. And yes clear on exit

Quoting Giga Wizard:

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Ah caught by the plugin virus: Love the other features also in it: Search and replace.

Can you unlock the roles column for editing in search and replace?

can you expand the search feature on these CREW and CAST sections:

Search on the CAST or CREW name, show the credited as result and give an entry field for a replacement for the credited as field?
Search
First Name field: [          ]
Last Name field: [          ]
Middle Name field: [          ]
Result:
First Name / Middle Name / Last Name is credited as: XXXXXXXXXXXXXX change to: [          ]
[change] [find next] [leave search]

hope you got the idea?

Yup, got it - but right now I don't display ANY cast/crew info, so there is nothing to unlock .... What am I missing?

There are two cast/crew editors already available: one by Tom Gaines and one by Goodguy. I played with them both, and they have a lot of capability. As a convenience you can call one by "right click" from the profile data grid, after you have stored the path to the tool in the BulkEdit options panel.

So, to edit cast/crew, you just: edit profile / copy cast or crew, right click edit cast/crew, do your thing, then paste back into the profile. Of course you don't need BulkEdit for any of this - I just put them on the menu to make it easy to have an edit "one stop shopping" area.

Tell me if that can satisfy your needs. If not, if you could explain exactly what else would be needed for the tools to work together. I would like the opportunity to first see if one of those guys is willing to add something so that we get the totality of what is needed by the tools working together, before I embark on re-doing stuff that has already been done. That would be a lot of new code for me - it would not be soon, anyway, and it would be slow - BulkEdit is probably already slow enough, right? (Don't answer that!!!  )

Anyway, what do you think about all my rambling ....    ?

Quoting Giga Wizard:

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you have 1 flaged profile and loaded in bulkedit
with the bottom option:
Look For:
Replace With:
If you search with a role, your plugin finds the role in that field
you just can not replace it with.
case: DVD Box TV series avererage over 20 episodes and dividers, if you want to change 1 role for a player in all episodes.

Oh, this is just too funny.    I really have no clue what you are talking about - and I wrote the code!!! What field called "Role" are you talking about? I don't even display it. I have no code to search it ... I'm really confused ... 

The "target column is read/only" message is coming from whatever column the selected cell belongs to - since there is no "role" column ... I am wondering what you mean?

Perhaps you are describing what you want it to do in the future? I'm sorry if I misunderstood ...

Can't you reverse the working of your routine?
Look for the requested data in a field in a profile, if the data is found check the field it is found in and compare to a list of allowed data, if it is not allowed to change it.

This with the idea that you can not change an actor name for a non verified actor name in the database (local or online) Bruce Willis exchange for Ken Cole. I don't know what safeguards there need to be looked after.

Thanks for the detailed answer. Ok, have a go with the plugins you mentioned. If I don't get around with it, I let you know.

Quoting Giga Wizard:

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while cloning a profile: the 3th genre field content is not transfered. Just noticed this.

Oops... I'll take a look. Sorry.

Quoting Giga Wizard:

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no sorry needed

Ok, V092 is there. 

CSV import is available.

It allows:
- import of "2.4" format, ala CSV Export Plugin
- import of either row or column format of CSV Export (not sure which is easier to do yet)
- select delimiter
- select quoted or non-quoted text
- ProfileID will be accepted as upc.locality, I{disc-id}, or M{12 digits}

Edit: BulkEdit 1.0 is avilable with CSV Import. More details later. Need some sleep.

The following formats are supported:

Plugin CSV Export 2.4 Format - all of the following:
"Title","Collection Type","Description","Aspect Ratio","Loaned To","Collection Number","Production Year","Running Time","MPAA Rating","Case Type","Region","Purchase Place","Mfr.'s Suggested Retail Price","Purchase Price","Wish List Priority","Widescreen Format","Pan&Scan Format","Full Frame Format","Anamorphic Widescreen Format","Release Date","Purchase Date","Due Back From Loan Date","Director #1","Director #2","Film Review","Studio #1","Studio #2","Studio #3","Genre #1","Genre #2","Genre #3"

Plugin CSV Export Column Format - any or all of the following (profile with 1 disc):
"Title","Collection Type","Description","Aspect Ratio","Loaned To","Collection Number","Production Year","Running Time","MPAA Rating","Case Type","Region","Purchase Place","Mfr.'s Suggested Retail Price","Purchase Price","Wish List Priority","Widescreen Format","Pan&Scan Format","Full Frame Format","Anamorphic Widescreen Format","Release Date","Purchase Date","Due Back From Loan Date","Director #1","Director #2","Film Review","Studio #1","Studio #2","Studio #3","Genre #1","Genre #2","Genre #3","Audio Rating","Composer #1","Composer #2","Country of Origin","Description - Side A - 1","Description - Side B - 1","Disc ID - Side A - 1","Disc ID - Side B - 1","Dual Layered - Side A - 1","Extras Rating","Label - Side A - 1","Label - Side B - 1","Last Edited","Last Watched - Date","Last Watched - User","Locality","Location - 1","Media Type","Notes","Original Title","Overview","Running Time Formatted","Slot - 1","Sort Title","Times Watched","UPC","Video Rating","Video Standard"

DVDSpot Export - all of the following:
upc,title,custom_title_sort,rating,review,source,price,owned,owned_date,owned_custom,watched,watched_date

Instructions are virtually identical to the XML Import instructions discussed in an earlier post. More details later.