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I'm very new to Ant Movie Catalog but am impressed and excited.

My needs at this stage are very limited, but unfortunately my abilities are as well so I would be very grateful for help. I've scoured the help files and this forum and have learnt a lot but am stuck on one "little" thing.

I've got 400 or so proprietary DVDs plus other items/films recorded onto DVD from TV. I'm busy entering them into AMC while experimenting with output. All I really want to do right now is put an IE/HTML icon on my desktop so that I can easily look at my library, typically to search for a film or other named item, find the number of the disc it's on and then retrieve that disc for playing.

My problem is that on 20 or so of my discs I've got two or more titles. AMC will happily accept the entry of multiple titles in the record for a particular movie number but I can't figure out how to amend/create a template that will give me the required HTML result. My attempts to date leave me with all HTML items for a particular movie number showing only the one (last) title.

My lengthy perusal of the forum suggests that there isn't a solution for this problem. Is that true?

If so, my immediate thought is to enter all my movie numbers in AMC with an extra (trailing) digit. Thus a DVD with only one title, say my third DVD, would be 0030. Then a subsequent DVD with two titles on it, say my eighth DVD, would be entered as 0080 for the first title and 0081 for the second.

If I did this is there any way in my HTML template to suppress the last digit of the Movie (Item) Number when displaying via IE? I'm only just reacquainting myself with HTML scripts and can't find anything like TRIM or CROP or LENGTH in the encyclopaedia.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Ian

Actually there is a bug (or at least something missing) that makes exported file overwritten when multiple movies have the same number, as you noticed.
Until then, one of the solution is, as you mentionned, add an extra digit to the movie number.
You can't hide the last number with just HTML, but it should be very easy to do with a little javascript (though I can't help you for that).
Another solution (the one I use) is to put in "media label" field the number of the first DVD of the box, so when you have a movie you can check the "media label" field to see with which movie it is. This also allows to group movies in main window to have these movies together in a "group".

Thanks Ant. I'll go and have a little dabble with Java. If anyone wants to know how I get on post here.

In the meantime, and I'm ashamed of the crudeness, I've amended my AMC to HTML export template to insert **** after the extended movie number and then set up a standalone edit routine to search for these and strip them plus one preceding character out before using the .html file in IE.

It works ..... but Ugh!

Hi!

I'm a newbie here and I have a template request...

If anyone knows how to write a html template where movies would be grouped by media label data, please post it here