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Grouping by genre
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DVD Profiler Unlimited Registrantcracked_magnet
Registered: March 23, 2007
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I want to produce a report that groups by genre.  But it doesn't appear there is any grouping available in the reports.

To give you a better idea of what i'm trying to do, i'll explain a little.
I'm trying to produce a report that lists movies in each genre seperately.
Say a movie has the genres of Action and Drama.
I want it to appear under Action but also appear under Drama.

I guess I'd have the Genre in the page header.

Currently the only way to do this (that i can see).  is to produce a seperate report for each genre (as the page header would have to be hardcoded) and run them all. 

I might even need to set the collection filter first before i ran each one, but there is probably a way to filter out everything but a particular genre.

Any ideas?

Or whats the best way to suggest a product improvement?
DVD Profiler Unlimited Registrantantolod
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Registered: March 13, 2007
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I think you have the solution. Filter a genre, run a report. Unfortunately, the reporting tool does not do any filtering or sorting in and of itself.
Kevin
DVD Profiler Unlimited Registrantcracked_magnet
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hmmmmm.  Being a programmer myself.. whats the story with the plugin's do they have apis?
DVD Profiler Unlimited Registrantnuoyaxin
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Quoting cracked_magnet:
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hmmmmm.  Being a programmer myself.. whats the story with the plugin's do they have apis?

I believe they do.

Just apply for access to the Plugin Development forum (using the Request Access link). Not sure what you will see after that (as I am not a programmer), but I heard all required information can be found there.
Achim [諾亞信; Ya-Shin//Nuo], a German in Taiwan.
Registered: May 29, 2000 (at InterVocative)
DVD Profiler Unlimited Registrantcracked_magnet
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Thanks I'll do that.

I might explore doing something that can batch reports/filters or maybe even an xml/xslt transform...
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