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 | Blair | | Resistance is Futile! |
| Registered: October 30, 2008 |  Posts: 1,249 |
| | Posted: | | | | Looking around, I am reading how many of you use an HTML Window for displaying taglines, awards, or other info not built into Profiler. My current assumption is that all of this miscellaneous data is always being entered into the Notes window.
Is this correct, or is there an alternative method (such as a text file) that can be easily used to both enter and read data into an HTML window?
What I am hoping for is to eventually create seperate tagline, menu, and possibly chapter and awards windows, but I am trying to avoid the use of the Notes window for holding this data because I already have a purpose for that window which I want to keep seperate. | | | If at first you don't succeed, skydiving isn't for you.
He who MUST get the last word in on a pointless, endless argument doesn't win. It makes him the bigger jerk. |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 4,596 |
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| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Blair76: Quote:
Looking around, I am reading how many of you use an HTML Window for displaying taglines, awards, or other info not built into Profiler. My current assumption is that all of this miscellaneous data is always being entered into the Notes window.
Is this correct, or is there an alternative method (such as a text file) that can be easily used to both enter and read data into an HTML window?
You can either use the Notes, or a text file, or other files, or sources on the web. The EPG Loader HTML window, for instance, loads files which you can d'load from here. But in a HTML window you can also view content from an online database like Wikipedia or IMDb pages. | | | | -- Enry | | | | Last edited: by White Pongo, Jr. |
| | Registered: March 15, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 5,459 |
| | Posted: | | | | Yes, as long as you name the source consistently and in a way that Profiler can recreate (most people use the UPC numbers as a filename) you can use an external source for your data.
As Enry has suggested, look at the EPG Loader - that's probably a good example of what can be accomplished. |
| | Blair | | Resistance is Futile! |
| Registered: October 30, 2008 | | Posts: 1,249 |
| | Posted: | | | | I realize now that I wasn't nearly as precise as I need to be. Probably because what I was hoping for is such a longshot.
The reason that I do not like entering this type of data into the Notes field is that in case I have to change something related to all of them (or even decide to get rid of certain data altogether), then I have to go back and one by one edit it in each Notes field, which would be pretty time consuming. I had already tested using separate text files names by UPC, but again that seems overly time consuming if there was something that I needs to change (and it also made something else very difficult).
What I was hoping to eventually be able to do is access the data from a speadsheet, CSV, or otherwise separated form where all of the data is found on a single page, making it much easier to edit as needed.
But again, I knew that was a huge longshot.
Thanks for the link to the EPG Loader. I'm still not sure if I will use it, but I had looked for it in the past. | | | If at first you don't succeed, skydiving isn't for you.
He who MUST get the last word in on a pointless, endless argument doesn't win. It makes him the bigger jerk. |
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