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Hi

My goal is to add text to the Description field through a script instead of replacing the original content.

Try the following:
In the IMDB script replace one line
SetField(fieldDescription, getfield(fieldDescription) + #13#10#13#10 + Value);

instead of
SetField(fieldDescription, Value);

When running this through ordinanary scripting (F6) it does what it is supposed to do but when I use the "Get information from script" it ignores the part with "getfield(fieldDescription)".

Finally I have question. Is it possible to check from a script if there already is a picture attached to the current movie so I can avoid replacing this?

AMC 3.3.0 (22/6/2002)
Windows 2000 SP 2

bmm wrote: When running this through ordinanary scripting (F6) it does what it is supposed to do but when I use the "Get information from script" it ignores the part with "getfield(fieldDescription)".

That's not really a bug actually, more a "feature"
In "Get information from script" mode it does not read movie information before executing the script, since I check if the field is empty or not to know if the field has to be copied.
I will try to see how I can change that easily

bmm wrote: Finally I have question. Is it possible to check from a script if there already is a picture attached to the current movie so I can avoid replacing this?

Not currently, but I know that I have to add picture management functions, e.g. to convert stored pictures to linked pictures, etc..

antp wrote: That's not really a bug actually, more a "feature"
In "Get information from script" mode it does not read movie information before executing the script, since I check if the field is empty or not to know if the field has to be copied.

Ok, that really explains some otherwise odd behaviours I couldn't figure out And the only two fields that can be read from is Original and Translated Title because they are the source of the lookup. I had earlier done some checks on these and other fields with different output.

This puts my mind in rest.