1) Why can't there be formatting in the NOTES.  In overview you can BOLD etc and that information stays that way .. but this is not allowed in NOTES.  Is there a reason that USERS can't have an edit box that has edit powers?

2) Even simple CRLFs are lost from NOTES in HTML windows.  I have created the following pretty simple script.  I expect it to display the OVERVIEW comments with formatting and the NOTES comments with formatting (of course the only formatting allowed is crlf)



Just fyi the OVERVIEW looks like this



and the NOTES look like this



Now when i view this in the VIEW -> HTML Windows -> and select script TEST i get this



Now as you can plainly see, the OVERVIEW section has retained its formatting (especially notice the CRLF) but then the NOTES section has lost its formatting (CRLF).

So my questions are

1) Once again why can't there be any formatting in the NOTES section?  Is there something I am plainly missing?

2) am i doing something wrong with the script or is this just a limitation with dvdProfiler that i have to get used to

Thank you
David

At least with the crlf you could get around if you use the DP_Notes variable from the header_vars.
You only need to replace the clrf with HTML linebreaks:
DP_Notes.replace(/\r?\n/g, '<br/>')

Also you could use <i></i> and <b></b> and other HTML tags in notes. These should then also show as formatted in HTML windows.

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I just set as you suggested.  In Personalize DVD/Notes it did change the "look' of the text but I find no way to format.

You need to use HTML tags.

For example, try <b>BOLD</b> instead of [b]BOLD[/b].

And use <br> for line breaks.

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At least with the crlf you could get around if you use the DP_Notes variable from the header_vars.
You only need to replace the clrf with HTML linebreaks:
DP_Notes.replace(/\r?\n/g, '<br/>')

Also you could use <i></i> and <b></b> and other HTML tags in notes. These should then also show as formatted in HTML windows.

Not working on the CRLF yet (regex really gets me <G>) but with other formatting .. will try that next.

With the View as HTML still set i tried this

Added just a couple of HTML tags.  The PERSONALIZE window looks like this.  Note it does not display the correct HTML formatting.  What is the use of the "view as html"?



So then the OUTPUT in the TEST script looks like this



It does bring the html tags accross into the "TEST" window.  From earlier notes I can format the text in the personalize/notes edit box but saving all HTML codes do not make reading the text easier in dvdProfiler.

Once again I am sure that I am missing something here.

Thanks
DSig

Actually I think the problem is once again mine.  I am wanting DVD profiler to do things that it just doesn't doesn't/can't do.

I would *expect* that there be some 'formatting' options in the Notes field.  But instead you can put in HTML codes into the test and the window appears to be just a HTML Syntax display.  Like this



When you view the 'html window', in this example TEST it looks like this.



Note that there is BOLD and a LIST element.

I guess I want my cake and eat it too .. as I only use the HTML windows to create output for a BB site.  So i need the codes embedded.

So in either case the Personalize Notes needs a lot of codes that make the display/test hard to read.  And if i use HTML tags <> then you get the formatting in the TEST html window but nothing on the BB site.

Oh well .. nice try.  Guess i will work on the CRLF thing now

Thanks you for your information
David

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So in either case the Personalize Notes needs a lot of codes that make the display/test hard to read.  And if i use HTML tags <> then you get the formatting in the TEST html window but nothing on the BB site.

Oh well .. nice try.  Guess i will work on the CRLF thing now

As I noted you can use DP_Notes and replace the CRLF.
The same you can do with the HTML tags and convert them to bbcode for BB sites.

// replacing CRLF
DP_Notes = DP_Notes.replace(/\r?\n/g, '<br/>');
// replacing HTML tags with BB code
DP_Notes = DP_Notes.replace(/<(/?\w)>/g, '[$1]')

Yep .. i said that was going to be my next step.

So in my test script i copied/paste you code with the script now looking like



When i go into preview mode it looks like ..




Once again I am sure it is something I am doing wrong.  Not being a html/javascipt guy is becoming a real handicap in using dvdprofiler <G>

Thanks for any suggestions you have
David

Also you have to put the code inside of a <script language="JavaScript"> section. And then use document.write(DP_Notes); to print out the notes.

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After <br/> your closing single quotation mark ' is missing.

Thanks for that.  I just copy and pasted the earlier comment and must have missed the single quote.

But when I put the single quote in after the > and before the ) it displays the same

DSig