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Customize IMDb Link
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorTomGaines
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Quoting Squirrel.God:
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I like it!

But I hope you won't want us to be using the AKAs IMDb link though.....

In Cinematic Collection Viewer you can customize it via the settings.ini
Something like this should also be possible to implement in Profiler's options menu.


DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantRossRoy
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Yeah but the search is then on a bigger dataset so search times increase a little bit and the search results screen is cluttered by displaying all matching akas under each title. That's obviously acceptable if you need the additional akas, but not everyone does.


Yeah, I didn't take that into account, mostly because I don't mind it but still, it's a valid point.
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantRifter
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Quoting ya_shin:
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Quoting Rifter:
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Why are you people so obsessed with using IMDB?  We can't use ANY of the data from it anyway, so what's the point of trying to add something that links to it?

To look at additional information which DVD Profiler doesn't have...? Sure, it's trivial and you don't care, but apparently others do...


I care that Ken has said do not use IMDB data.  It is simply not prudent to take that stance and then have a built-in link that takes you to that site.  To think that it is shows a profound lack of logic.
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorSquirrelecto
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Quoting Rifter:
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I care that Ken has said do not use IMDB data.  It is simply not prudent to take that stance and then have a built-in link that takes you to that site.  To think that it is shows a profound lack of logic.


We already have a built-in link that takes you to IMDb.

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DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile RegistrantStar Contributorajm
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I 'enhanced' ya-shin's code a little to produce something slightly different.

It's a screen capture and is rather large, so I'll just post a link.

Click here to see

And here's the code I used to do it.

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<HTML>
<HEAD>
<SCRIPT TYPE="text/javascript">
<!--
<DP NAME="HEADER_VARS" Language="JavaScript" Comments="True" IncludeCast="False" IncludeCrew="False">
/**************************************************/
// Open IMDb page for the profile
function imdb() {
  var imdbStart = DP_Notes.toLowerCase().search("\<imdb\>") + 6;
  var imdbEnd = DP_Notes.toLowerCase().search("\<\/imdb\>");
  var imdbCode = DP_Notes.slice(imdbStart, imdbEnd);
  var imdbLink = ("http://www.imdb.com/title/" + imdbCode);
  if (imdbEnd > 1) {
    window.location.href= imdbLink;
  } else {
    document.write("You need to add &LT;IMDB&GT;ttXXXXX&LT;/IMDB&GT; to your notes for this to work")
  }
}
//-->
</SCRIPT>
</HEAD>
<BODY onload="imdb();">
</BODY>
</HTML>


Updated with code from xyrano (thanks).

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ajm, Looks like you missed my pm there
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I did. I like your version. I'll update it.

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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar Contributorsugarjoe
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I always wanted yo have the IMDb rating in my profiler. Do you guys see any way to specifically link to that rating ?
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DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile RegistrantStar Contributorhal9g
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Why are you people so obsessed with using IMDB?  We can't use ANY of the data from it anyway, so what's the point of trying to add something that links to it?


You should ask Ken why he provides a link to it in DVDP?????
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantMark Harrison
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I care that Ken has said do not use IMDB data.  It is simply not prudent to take that stance and then have a built-in link that takes you to that site.  To think that it is shows a profound lack of logic.


That link has been there as long as I can recall (go ahead and look in 2.4).

Ken doesn't want us to copy data from their database to the DVD Profiler database.  That breaks IMDB rules.  But they (IMDB) encourage people to link to them.  You seem to think the goal is to copy data, but there are a lot of other reasons one might want to jump from a title to IMDB.  Re-read this thread and you'll see many of those reasons listed.
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DVD Profiler Unlimited Registrantnuoyaxin
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Quoting ajm:
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I 'enhanced' ya-shin's code a little to produce something slightly different.

It's a screen capture and is rather large, so I'll just post a link.

Looks good...

Wow, as this loads for every profile right away, IMDb is sure gonna get an increase in traffic they didn't see coming
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Ajm,

I've been using Ya-shin's code for a while. Tried yours, but cant see how it is different. What am I missing...  :-)
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Ajm,

I've been using Ya-shin's code for a while. Tried yours, but cant see how it is different. What am I missing...  :-)


The only difference is that my version displays the imdb page inside dvdprofiler, where ya-shin's pops up a new window

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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantRifter
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Quoting ajm:
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I 'enhanced' ya-shin's code a little to produce something slightly different.

It's a screen capture and is rather large, so I'll just post a link.

Looks good...

Wow, as this loads for every profile right away, IMDb is sure gonna get an increase in traffic they didn't see coming


Great, just what they need.  If the data is suspect, what's the point of linking to it?  You can't rely on anything you find there.  I quit using IMDB long before I ever heard of Profiler because of even then I could see the errors.
John

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Just found this and got it running. I was wondering, is there anyway to stop the tt number showing in the notes section?
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorAddicted2DVD
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for anything in notes that I don't want to show... I put in brackets... so it would be <tt#>.... and then of course make sure in options you have notes set to "show notes as html"... or something like that. Don't have my program open at the moment.
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