Two Titles on One DVD
Posted: 2006-08-15 14:55:39
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
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