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Oh right, shit, I just tried to open the help file outside of AMC and I get an error saying "Help is no longer supported in Windows 10 or later". Okay, that's an issue. It may also explain why I'm having problems with the help file. Weirdly, when | open English.chm directly, the Index page loads ...

Indeed, the inclusion of help documents is more something from 20 years ago (but the program is even older than that).
I could easily publish on my site the HTML files used by the CHM, I'll put that on my to-do list ;)

Sounds good -- thanks! Yeah, it's a fun trip down memory lane for me - it ...

It was a feature added by Mickaël among the few other ones he made between version 3.6 and 4.2.1
I think that originally it was mostly for having some actor-related info and additional images, but I never used it myself.

It's so powerful as a sort of super-custom fields feature that it's ...

I've read the Help page on Extras:
Each extra has the following fields:
Number: Extra number between 1 and the number of extras. This number matches to the position of the extra in the extra list of movie.
Tag: Extra tag. This field is mainly used for HTML export and printing to identify an extra ...

Hi,
Thanks :)
Sorry for the delay, I check the forum only once every few days.
Indeed using a custom field is probably the best solution, the user can then create a custom field with the appropriate tag (the script could rely on a parameter for that tag, so the user could change it).
There is a ...

Hello friends,

Extras seem to be an extremely powerful bonus feature for customisation that does... I can't actually tell! That's the problem. "Extras" can mean virtually anything. It seems like an even more powerful/flexible version of custom fields (with some limitations).

What do people use ...

Hi,

I'm trying to make versions of some of the scripts that are more friendly for use with TV series and episodes. I could hijack a lesser-used default field like Composer and then pretend that it's e.g. the series title but that would be a very ugly, hacky way of doing things and prone to errors ...

It allows you to do cool things with the title template like this:
[TranslatedTitle] ([OriginalTitle], [Year])

That then look the same in your checklist, regardless of whether the movie are in foreign languages or not:
https://s.iimg.su/s/06/rrnoEjfVlHj2aPLdZ1F1f7x7wMHfZunaT1wEJrzF.png

I'm ...