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| Registered: July 22, 2007 | | Posts: 348 |
| | Posted: | | | | First off, is searching this forum ever going to be fixed? Every time I try and search, I get a timeout error. So, if there is already a topic about this issue, I have no idea.
TV ratings exist in the database, but if you try and do a report that lists a TV rating, forget it. All TV ratings get mapped to a MPAA rating, which is bad, really bad. For example, a TV series with a TV-MA rating is listed in the report as having a NC-17 rating. Incorrect, VERY incorrect.
Instead of MPAA Ratings, it should be MPAA/TV Ratings and the TV ratings added to the selection list.
A must fix for 3.8. | | | Mr Video Productions
If it isn't Unix, it isn't an OS :-) |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 17,330 |
| | Posted: | | | | Maybe you need to edit the report to get it to work? I just ran a random report and they are showing up correctly... Here shows some TV-PG ratings...  Here shows some TV-MA ratings...  So only thing I can think of is that the report was made before we got those ratings... so maybe they need to be edited. Though I have no idea since I don't normally mess with reports at all. | | | | Pete |
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| Registered: December 27, 2009 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,131 |
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| Registered: July 22, 2007 | | Posts: 348 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Addicted2DVD: Quote:
Maybe you need to edit the report to get it to work? I hate it when I have to reply twice to the same posting because the forum software screwed up and dropped my posting into the bit-bucket.  It looked like you used the Invelos Classic DVD report. I looked at that and saw what it was using. It is not a conditional, but a textual output of all the ratings. There is still a problem with the report generator in that the original report used a conditional that allowed for printing all of the MPAA ratings as graphical images. The report generator still needs to be fixed so that the MPAA Ratings is changed to MPAA/TV ratings and the TV ratings added to the Value list. That way graphical images can be used for all of the various ratings, movie and TV. As it stands right now, the MPAA rating conditional is useless, as TV ratings get incorrectly mapped to MPAA ratings. I've changed the report and removed the conditional and replaced it with the textual output until the report generator gets fixed. | | | Mr Video Productions
If it isn't Unix, it isn't an OS :-) |
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| Registered: July 22, 2007 | | Posts: 348 |
| | Posted: | | | | This is STILL broke in 3.8.0 and NEEDS to be fixed. As it stands right now, one cannot generate a report with ratings images because you cannot select TV ratings, only MPAA ratings. A report can only be generated with TEXT ratings. TV ratings currently get mapped to MPAA ratings, which obviously is useless. This has been wrong since TV ratings were added. Why can't it be fixed? | | | Mr Video Productions
If it isn't Unix, it isn't an OS :-) |
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| Registered: March 10, 2007 | | Posts: 4,282 |
| | Posted: | | | | The MPAA rating conditional only properly maps to MPAA ratings. It's there for legacy report support. For direct mapping to any rating, use the Rating condition. | | | | Invelos Software, Inc. Representative |
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| Registered: July 22, 2007 | | Posts: 348 |
| | Posted: | | | | @Ken:
I looked at that when trying to figure out how to get it to work.
The problem with Rating is that Value has no list. Add a pulldown list of all the ratings, and I'll use it. | | | Mr Video Productions
If it isn't Unix, it isn't an OS :-) |
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| Registered: March 10, 2007 | | Posts: 4,282 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting MrVideo: Quote:
@Ken:
I looked at that when trying to figure out how to get it to work.
The problem with Rating is that Value has no list. Add a pulldown list of all the ratings, and I'll use it. The rating condition will not have a drop-down. Since the idea is to set a condition for an image, just type the rating you want to match. | | | | Invelos Software, Inc. Representative |
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| Registered: July 22, 2007 | | Posts: 348 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Ken Cole: Quote:
The rating condition will not have a drop-down. Since the idea is to set a condition for an image, just type the rating you want to match. You can't be serious. But, obviously you are. A lot of the conditionals are used to ultimately display an image, for example the region codes. Yet, for the ratings box, the user has to enter a value? That is just plain silly. It is almost like having a spreadsheet program where the user enters the numbers, but must manually use a calculator to do the desired math. That is what the computer is for. Unless there is some problem in programming the drop down list, I still consider this broken. If you can have a drop down list for the two sets of region codes, you can have a drop down list for the two rating code sets. Too me this is simply illogical. So, please, add the drop down list for the ratings just like you have for the region codes. | | | Mr Video Productions
If it isn't Unix, it isn't an OS :-) |
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| Registered: July 22, 2007 | | Posts: 348 |
| | Posted: | | | | Due to a lack of postings from other users, I have to assume that I am the only one that believes that the lack of a drop down list needs to be fixed. To manually enter a rating value is silly and prone to errors, especially when all of the other ratings and region selections have drop down lists. I am just dumbfounded. | | | Mr Video Productions
If it isn't Unix, it isn't an OS :-) |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 485 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting MrVideo: Quote:
Due to a lack of postings from other users, ... Many of the active people on these fora have many hundreds or easily thousands of dvd's. Printing a report then becomes like printing an encyclopedia: it is big, hardly ever used and out-of-date soon when the next batch of disks is bought. Even just a list of titles. Combine it with a fine range of reports that is already available, and it easy to see only a few will step into report development. That shouldn't discourage you as your efforts obviously fulfil a need and any shared result will no doubt meet appreciation. But do not assume a lack of postings means a lack of importance. That is for Invelos (Ken) to decide. But like many others, I do not step into every thread started... | | | Eric
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 5,734 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting MrVideo: Quote:
First off, is searching this forum ever going to be fixed? The forum search function has been significantly improved. | | | | Don't confuse while the film is playing with when the film is played. [Ken Cole, DVD Profiler Architect] |
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| Registered: July 22, 2007 | | Posts: 348 |
| | Posted: | | | | eommen & bbbbb
Thanks for the responses. Good to read that the search has been improved.
As for a collection of tons of DVDs/Blu-rays, I have to agree. Such a report, if printed would be a big waste of paper. But, the report can be turned into a PDF. | | | Mr Video Productions
If it isn't Unix, it isn't an OS :-) |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 168 |
| | Posted: | | | | Have to agree with the point made by eommen that printing a report can get rather impractical once your collection starts getting large - at least it was for myself until I broke the report up into managable chucks useing tabs and custom report lists.
With custom sorts - tied to copies of the same report design - each with slightly varied names that include a specific letter range in thier file name, I've basically gotten to the point where I print no more than four pages at any one time (30 titles to a page in my case).
It DOES mean that my assembled full listing may have the occasional white space when a report definition covers a multiple not divisible by 30, but I'd rather live with that than think I can afford to print over a hundred color pages every time I add a new item, to the collection. |
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