Personal Video Database

Oh, don't be angry with me... the sort functionality was one small point you suggested, though a long time ago... the other ones are a little bit too complicated for now and perhaps easier to do with php? I fear that if I additionally exported everything into arrays... that might result in a very big file and further slow things down? The ideas for making everything more interactive were not bad, though. I'm looking forward to your project, does it have something to do with that?

Hi kmickeletto!

Here's the (or a) trick to trim the last comma:

<actors>{#StringReplace '{%value=actors template="pages\actors.ptm" maxvalues="3" params="full"}' ', [ENDLIST]' ''}</actors>
actors.ptm (all in one line):
%HEAD%%HEAD%{%param=name}, %FOOT%[ENDLIST]%FOOT%

That you like 'em that much truly feels good...  

Maybe it would be strange if you click on "print" in PVD and a "save as..." dialogue opens up instead of a printer dialogue...
So if you decide to add a print item that calls my export template (would be kind of a great honour to me, of course ), you might want to override the "save as..." dialogue and just export the file to temporary files instead... after clicking "print" the page would pop up in the user's default browser. I added a "Print" button to the exported page to make things more obvious.

By the way, and completely apart from this, I almost can't await PVD version 1. I'm sure it's quite a lot of work, though...

Rick's answer should solve it.

By the way, if you're not used to zip and unzip see here:
http://www.howtozip.com/indexmenu.asp?menu=what_is_a_zip_file_9
Guide on how to use the Windows' built in zip feature:
http://maximumpcguides.com/windows-vista/compress-and-uncompress-a-folder-or-file-in-windows-vista/
It's explained for Windows Vista but it's quite similar on WindowsXP.
Guide for Windows 7:
How to zip: http://maximumpcguides.com/windows-7/zip-a-file-or-folder/
How to unzip: http://maximumpcguides.com/windows-7/unzip-a-file-or-folder/

Concerning the filenames: in future versions of my export templates a small thing will change. Just to add a little confusion...  
the folder's name won't be pages anymore but [report-name]_files (if the corresponding html file was called [report-name].html)

I modified the templates again, taking advantage of a new feature Nostra implemented...

If export templates don't generate a single file but multiple files instead (several html pages + stylesheet files + images, etc.), these files now can be stored in a folder named similar to the main file.

An example:
if you advise the "HTML Frames" template to export your database to a file named mymovies.html, now all additional files that are generated during the process will be stored in a folder named mymovies_files. Hence it will be more obvious which folder belongs to a corresponding html file, especially if you do several different exports (like different selections, your movie list altered by filters, or whatever). Windows users will also benefit from this feature ("pairs of web pages and folders"):
http://paulelso.wordpress.com/2006/09/20/xp-folder-option-managing-pairs-of-web-pages-and-folders/

Ok, just checked it... it works fine with imagepath!! Sorry...
It didn't work if used with both imagepath and recordfilename, but the problem was solely the use in recordfilename...

I just saw you didn't add %fname% to recordfilename but recordtemplate. I can't imagine any use in recordtemplate, because the path in recordtemplate is the source path in the Plugins\Templates folder of PVD and that can never be dependend on the filename chosen in the "save as" dialogue. Am I wrong?
Would be great to have that in recordfilename to be able to store all exported files in the subfolder "%fname%_files".

Just fetched the latest updates (in PVD: "Help" -> "Check for updates") and it's fine now. I surely appreciate the fix, thanks!

New versions of my export templates... For all those who tend to collect their favourite soap operas...  
- episodes will be taken into account by all three templates now. Episodes will be listed below the description field of the corresponding main entry...

Some minor changes:
- the quality field will only be shown if it is not empty (same with some other fields)
- internal links will only be active if the movie entry they point to was not excluded from export. This was not the case for link type "ID" (= mid = "Database Record ID") until now
- there are some other tiny changes/bugfixes, but i can't remember what they were actually...

Maybe the second function here might be more reliable... easier to deal with different drives and paths:
ExtractFileName
see here:
http://www.videodb.info/help/hlp_export.html#functions

I think the following should work, but I didn't test it. If you're satisfied with your solution, then you just might want to keep it your way... nevertheless:
<path>movies/{#ExtractFileName '{%value=path}'}</path>

Hi ntskalman!

Total record count... {%value=200}

You can find things like that here, so if you're curious, have a look:
Personal Video Database Export Templates Manual

Ok, that should be an easy task, but if anything stays unclear, feel free to ask...
So here we go:

1) Do a search for "kids" in "Category":

In Personal Video Database click on the button next to "Search" that says "Title + Original Title + Aka" and change it to "Category" (it is somewhwere in the lower part of the long, long list you will see).

Enter your search term ("kids") into the "Search:"-field

All movies that do not fit the search term will be invisible now. (You can undo/reset your search later by clicking onto the curled green arrow next to the search field)

2) After doing the search, choose "HTML print layout" from the "Export"-menu... and you're (almost) done.

3) Just in case: If you want to have bigger posters, edit the file "main.css" (in subfolder htmlprintfiles\css\ in the folder you exported to) with Notepad. You will see the following code quite at the top of this file:

div.poster
{
  max-width:170pt;
  float:right;
  clear:both;
  padding:0.3em;
  margin:1em;
  border:1px dotted black;
}

Change "max-width:170pt;" to "max-width:250pt;", save main.css and reload the exported HTML-file in your browser: now posters should be almost half the page wide (if the original poster images are big enough, cause small images won't be enlarged)...

4) Print the exported list with your browser's print feature.