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Could the alternative work for you?

I think you have not understood what I want. I do not want CoO rating. I want that for their movies, users can choose the country of the rating system which is displayed (as each user can choose the language of the program : I use French translation, I would like to use French rating, independantly from where the DVD was manufactured.

OK I see. Does that mean it would be automatically tied to the the local language translation and be the same for each movie, or different (selectable) for each movie? What if there are multiple movies on a DVD (maybe this does not happen)?

Again, seems like a valid feature request, now that we are homing in on what you really want.

Oh, and I'm sure that you know this, but I didn't realize it until I wrote the BulkEdit plugin. If you try to do it automatically, there is a huge issue of trying to correlate between the Rating Systems. Some countries have ratings in common, but most don't. And even if the symbol is the same, the definition can be different. But again, I'm sure you know. that. I'm just thinking out loud for how it might work.

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If you try to do it automatically, there is a huge issue of trying to correlate between the Rating Systems. Some countries have ratings in common, but most don't.

Well, I made a request for something I would like to be implemented. But perhaps it is not technically possible, or need a major change in the program. If it is the case, no real problem, I'll just continue to manage this as I have been doing for years.

Geez you give up easily.    All I asked was for a clarification on what you wanted ... you can be sure that it will never be done, if a programmer doesn't understand what you want. Using my experience with programming within DVD Profiler, I was just trying to get you to clarify it better.

So, what are the answers to those questions? If they are too difficult for you to answer, then trust me, they will be impossible for Invelos to implement. It must always start with what the user wants ...

For example, if what you want is for all profiles to (optionally) show a Rating tied to the language choice of the user, then I could see a process whereby the user specifies that option and the chosen language (or maybe the translation language could be detected). Then, using a mapping table supplied by the Community or by the user, each time a profile is selected, the additional rating field is made available in the HTML sections, and eventually also shows on the DVD Profiler General Info screen. It would be treated as Personal Info, and thereby not contributed. That's just one example. The mapping table would need a column for each locality, and the table lookup would then do a match between the source locality/rating and spit out the equivalent rating in the chosen language of the user.

Building those tables might be a fun project. If you want to do it for French, I would build you a plugin to use it as a way to test the concept. Let me know. If so, I will give you the XML format for the table, and I will build the plugin while you work on the table.

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The option I would like to see implemented is to keep the real DVD locality for each profile and have French rating system displayed in the general window for all my collection.

Right, so my question remains, where does the French rating come from? Do you enter it, based on your in-depth understanding of how the Ratings Systems correlate, or does it show up automatically somehow? And how does the program know which target language you want? Should it always be based on the translation table of the user or something else?

In other words, after the program figures out you want "French" somehow, where does the information that Belgian 16 = French 12 come from? (I had proposed a manually built table with automatic lookup.)

Ok, I think that's enough details in case Ken ever decides to do it.

Meanwhile, if you ever want to play the plugin game, let me know. It might be a fun diversion when I get bored debugging the other ones.

Well the tables wouldn't be necessary to do what you described. That's why I asked for clarification.

A plugin can certainly put the menu in Tools/Options for selecting the Country. This option could be saved by the plugin. The plugin could also present a dropdown on the DVD menu or Collection context menu for picking the selected Rating, based on that Country. There would also be a Collection\Flagged option for bulk operation.

Now, where to store the setting? Probably as a TAG or in Notes. This way, the settings get saved with the database, do not affect the Online, and are also available to a utility for conversion if Invelos puts the real thing into the program.

Now the hard part, as you said is how to display it. Some temporary options:

(1) Make a substitute General Info HTML window.
(2) Make a small HTML window just to display that one item
(3) Magic trick to modify the actual window. Not easy.

Not sure this would suit you, but that's sort of how I would approach it as a plugin.

One of the reasons that this interests me is that there are other requirements that might be satisfied with such an approach. If one of the HTML gurus could clone the General Info window, it could be scripted to meet any number of individual requirements for how stuff should be displayed. Maybe put a request in the Layouts Forum? If we get that, it would be useful for a whole bunch of things.

Oh, see here! May already be done!

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After all, I collect movies, not DVDs.

DVD Profiler (key word bolded)

@Kulju, please move along. Nothing for you here ... we are actually having an interesting conversation. No need to try and start (yet another) pissing contest.

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With a bit of work, you should be able to create any General Info window that suits you.

I have tried to create a General Info HTML window, though I'm far from being an expert in programming.

The result is not satisfying since I cannot recreate the interactivity of the General Info Window of the program:
- mouse scrolling on rating to get rating details
- possibity to change review directly in the window
- use of icons for locks, loaned status, changes made...