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Andycabs:
Hi. I was unable to find any reference to this question on the website. I was wondering if there is any way to have a Genre added to a movie when it is imported. I would like to have an "All Movies" Genre which is added automatically for each movie when I import it. When I try to edit multiples movies at once, it replaces the current Genre's for the movies and only adds the new one.
Thanks in advance,
Andycabs

rick.ca:

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I don't think so. For what purpose?

Andycabs:
I am using the exported xml file with Roksbox on my Roku player for a menu. It sorts the movies by Genre. I import several movies at a time to the database and I would like for it to automatically add an "All Movies" Genre to every movie so that I dont have to do it manually for each one. the IMDB plugin adds all of the other Genre's for me but none of them list all of the movies. It would also be useful when I create a new movie database file for another user and I have to import 200 to 300 movies at once.

rick.ca:
It seems odd Roksbox is incapable of displaying all movies. Maybe that's something you should be asking them about. In the context of PVD, adding an additional genre to those downloaded is a rather unusual requirement and therefore unlikely to be accommodated. If adding an 'All' value to Genre for all movies is the only solution, you could do so by exporting Genre to Excel, adding 'All' to the existing values, then re-importing.

Are you sure you shouldn't be using Multilevel Video Subcategories in Roksbox? If those allow you to select items at any level, then an easier solution might be an XML export which creates something like Movies/[Genre]—so you can select 'Movies' to get all movies.

Andycabs:
Hi and thanks for your response. Perhaps exporting to Excel is the way to go for me.. I am not that familiar with working with XML files and databases but its worth giving a shot. Roxbox will let me display all movies if I use a directory structure rather than an xml file. The problem with that is that each movie will only show up in the folder it is stored in , whereas in the xml file the movie will show up in whichever Genre's it is listed under.  I have manually added an "All Movies" Genre but I have to select it seperately for each movie as IMDB does not have an "All Movies" Genre that it imports with each movie. I do use the Video Subcategories for TV series such as [TV \Series \Season 1] ect.. It works quite well.  All in All I think PVD is an EXCELLENT program and I like working with it.
Thanks again for your advice!
Andycabs

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