Personal Video Database

Thanks, that works! Wish I could understand why, but for now I'll just roll with it. 

Perfect, I was going to ask you if there was anyway to get rid of the last comma without having to use Javascript, but then I decided to use · instead of a comma, so it doesn't matter. Thanks again, Nostra.

One other thing, I was going to try to figure out this on my own using the existing templates as examples, but I am quite stumped.

I got it to work just as you said above using a subtemplate if the subtemplate contains only {%value} but this smashes the list of actor names up together without spaces. And if I do so much as put a comma to the right, I end up seeing the actual code {%value} in the output (along with the comma). I tried putting in some things in the main template as well, but without really understanding. So my new question is: is there an easy way to make it show commas in between the names?

Thanks again for all advice.

BTW I have noticed for a while that I have some of the ptm files from Plugins\Templates folder duplicated in Plugins folder itself. Is this normal or did I screw something up downloading extra templates from the forum into the wrong folder?

I'm starting to piddle around a little with templates. I am trying to get a template to display only the first 3 actors for the movie but it is displaying the whole list. I must have something wrong.
{%value=actors maxvalues="3"}
The whole line for that is:
<p><strong>(IMDB Rating:{%value=imdbrating}) Actors: {%value=actors maxvalues="3"}  Director: {%value=directors maxvalues="1"}</strong> {%value=description} </p>

Are there any plans to allow saving Advanced Search queries (ideally with a query name)? After creating a fairly complicated advanced search (which nostra went to some trouble to allow and which I am most grateful for), it seems a shame to have to recreate the same query again (even though it does save the most recent advanced search).

If I'm understanding you right, you can already do this.  Paste that URL into PVD's URL field, type/paste in whatever you want for Title, and PVD will import data for the correct movie.  It won't work if Title is left blank, though it would be nice if it could be.

Thanks, Hyomil, I wasn't aware of that.

Thanks. Glad to know it's not just me and thanks for the message numbers.

Sorry, I should learn to read better. 

Hi, I'm new here but have a possible feature request, hopefully a small but useful one.

I just finished deleting all the plugins that used sites not in my own language, along with pvdtotray.dll. It was easy to do but I really had to pay attention, closing and opening PVD several times to see what dll did what, and not something I would recommend to my less geeky friends. This no doubt will become more and more error prone as the word of PVD spreads to all corners of the world, requiring plugins in languages from Azerbaijani to Zulu, when presumably there would be 300 items on my import menu. So I would suggest an interface for disabling a plugin OR at least make it so that "Check for updates" doesn't grab all the plugins that I declined from the initial install.

EDIT: I just found Tools -> Preferences -> Internet connection -> Ignore list. I'm not sure why it's a blank list for me, but apparently there already is a way to be selective on the check updates feature. So my request is only a way to disable a plugin regardless of whether it is being updated.

It seems like the "Ignore header" option is broken and as you have only one line in your file it is treated as header. Just move the data one line below. Note also that you need a delimiter at the end of each value (the last one as well) for the data to be fully imported.

Thanks, nostra, this did the trick, but first I got a crash and I sent you the bug report. Then I remembered that in the process of trying to get this to work, I had tried saving this to a Unicode file (little endian I think). When I saved it back to ANSI, it imported fine. Thanks to everyone for your persistence!