Please forgive the double post. I asked this question in the Technical Support section and it was recommended that I also look for an answer in this forum.

My DVD collection is sorted on my shelves in a particular manner.  I was informed that the best way to include this information in the program would be to set up Tags for their organization, as I could personalize it accordingly.

Well, I've finished setting up tags for all my DVDs and now I would like to print a report (or even view on-screen) my collection according to the order that my DVDs are organized (to make sure that I haven't missed adding any of my discs).  To do this, I need to sort by tags.  Is this possible?  If so, how? I am worried that I will not be able to view my collection in this manner, quite defeating the purpose of the program to organize my DVDs accordingly.

In the other forum, it was suggested that I flag the films of each tag individually and create a report one at a time, which is a wonderful workaround, but I find that this will become very tedious every time that I plan to print a report of my collection - especially for a sort function that I figure could be implemented very easily.  Any ideas you may have would be appreciated and thank you for your help in advance.

Thanks for your help MarEll!

Using the "Location" field was one of the first things that I tried when I got the software, but I eventually found it limiting in two ways:

1) I couldn't edit the location of multiple titles at once.  This would mean having to go into the Personalize section of each title, one at a time, to edit the Location field.  Then if the location ever changed (I've been known to rearrange on whim!  ), this would incur several more hours of work.  I think this reason is why somebody recommended that I use tags instead.

2) A location can only be added to a disc and not a DVD title. Boxsets, for example, do not have discs in their profile (they are contained in its children profiles) and so a boxset cannot be sorted appropriately using the Location field.  It sorts it as empty above the other shelf sections.  Titles with more than one disc may also present a problem, as the location can differ by disc.  I am not as concerned with this, but I am looking to sort by the title/boxset location on my shelf, rather than disc location in a 400-DVD player.

I hope this post doesn't come across as argumentative, since I could very well be wrong in my assessment of these features.  Please correct me if I am wrong, as I really want to use DVDProfiler exclusively, but am finding some of the features (sort functionality, for example) to be rather limiting: I can filter the tag and run a report, but I would have to do this for every individual shelf since I cannot sort my DVDs by the tag.

I would appreciate any other help that MarEll or anybody else can provide on the subject.  While I am mostly looking to avoid putting any more hours into this collection than I need to, I am also trying to understand the program a bit better. 

Would it be possible to export the collection to a XML document and then sort it on the tag there?  Are there other fields that have the ability to be sorted that can be personalized or used in a different manner than is intended?  Any thoughts are welcome on the subject.

Thanks!