You could always share the profiles privately by backing up/restoring individual profiles - but without creating a huge thread about it I'm not sure how you'd find out which ones to share! 

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ROFL. I like it James. but your example also highlights the sheer foley of Lopek's observation as far as the Online is concerned.

Anthony Hopkins
Angelina Jolie
Val Kilmer
Christopher Plummer

Are not KEY stars, as Andy puts it. I would disagree with that...big time...which is why it has to be local. That said perhaps someone could come up with a method for "sharing", I send Cover Scans all over the place on request, generally about 50 requests/week.

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While you may not agree that they are KEY stars, James took the order from the opening credits.  That means the film maker thought they were 'key' enough to be placed there.  Reading is fundamental. 

Please, quit picking fights.

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This is helpful on my PDA and I'm sure it would be useful to those who print reports.

Exactly.
Besides, the Movie Pick tool checks for similiraty the first ten actors, as default.

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Besides, the Movie Pick tool checks for similiraty the first ten actors, as default.

I didn't know that. That's very interesting. Seems like my little trick is good for program functionality in a few different areas. 

The end credits rule clashes with program functionality in other areas as well.

The Details View shows the first three actors as "Featuring:".

Reports usually limit the the number of cast entries.

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Since the Reports and Layouts are generated by users and not Invelos, that would be up to the people designing said Reports and Layouts.

So please enlighten me: How do create a report that extracts the (let's say) 3 top-billed actors from a cast list that follows the order of the end credits? And why does the Details View doesn't show them?

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Functionality works fine IF you design things properly.

That should read:
Functionality works fine IF you design the rules properly.

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...unless there is some built-in limtation in Ken's setup that does not allow you to set a larger variable for the data.

But that's the point. I don't want a large number. I only want the first few top-billded or "featured" actors. Unfortunately, the end credits are alphabetical or in order of appearance or whatever, and the rules say to use that order.

But hey, I'm just a dumb 3rd party developer, who doesn't understand how DVD Profiler works...

Goodguy:

Ok that's fine you have to balance your needs against what is going to come down the tube from the Online. You are free to araange your data in ANY WAY that you wish, that is why we have a Localdatabase. It is IMPOSSIBLE for the Online to provide for the wants and needs of every user, it is merely the place we all start from. You want the Online to be this way, somebody else wants it that way, and so on, everybody is DIFFERENT and we have been down that road before and it was a total wreck. We even had users trying to impose THEIR sort on the database, so that all the James Bonds would be together as THEY wanted it to be, to hell with somebody that wanted to look up Thunderball, they weren't going to find it un;less they knew how it was sorted that week.

I empathize with you but I don't sympathize.

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