Well, I understand the possibilities, I just think a more database-like approach instead of freetext files would be more useful.

For example, I'm using a secondary MS Access database to keep track of (among other things) content details and watched events per content. The DVDPro integration looks as following:



Unfortunately, there is no easy way to port this into a public solution, but it might give some ideas.

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Well, I understand the possibilities, I just think a more database-like approach instead of freetext files would be more useful.

For example, I'm using a secondary MS Access database to keep track of (among other things) content details and watched events per content. The DVDPro integration looks as following:



Unfortunately, there is no easy way to port this into a public solution, but it might give some ideas.

Appreciate that... but some of us don't want a second database for such info... not to mention... not everyone has MS Access... I have had several computers over the last 12 years... and neither of them had MS Access.

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Well, I understand the possibilities, I just think a more database-like approach instead of freetext files would be more useful.

For example, I'm using a secondary MS Access database to keep track of (among other things) content details and watched events per content. The DVDPro integration looks as following:



Unfortunately, there is no easy way to port this into a public solution, but it might give some ideas.

This is very cool. Can this be done using Excel and exporting to XML?

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Quoting goodguy:

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Well, I understand the possibilities, I just think a more database-like approach instead of freetext files would be more useful.

For example, I'm using a secondary MS Access database to keep track of (among other things) content details and watched events per content. The DVDPro integration looks as following:



Unfortunately, there is no easy way to port this into a public solution, but it might give some ideas.

Could you use an webhosted MySQL database in place of a local MS Access one? Can a HTML window accept PHP to access that info? Could that not open something like this up to be more public - if not the personal watched stuff, but the content info?

Of course, you could. MS Access is just what I use. The entire project started almost 3 years ago to supplement DVDPro with features I myself found lacking while trying to avoid duplicating any functionality DVDPro already has. Unlike some of my other projects, it is highly tailored to my personal needs and doesn't take public use into account. That's why I posted it only as an example.

An HTML Section can use XmlHttp to query data from a server. In fact, that's what I use to access the database from within DVDPro to display and search data.

Data entry itself happens in MS Access, both for the content and watched stuff. It is then propagated into the DVDPro database: Content types get the Special Features tickboxes set if they have a match, watched entries for main content are condensed from an hierarchical model and added to the user history.

For a more generic solution, you could do the data entry in the HTML Section and again use XmlHttp to post it to the server and update the database. Of course, that server can be a local one.

The problem with turning something like this into a public solution with shared data is that you basically have to implement an Online DB just like DVDPro itself does - with contribution, download and all that stuff.

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Just finished (sort-of, I just copied what's written on the backcover) my first EF file! (and it also happens to show my new layout for 1280x1024)

Hi there Ross. Just one simple question. How did u put the tagline window on your db?
Genius !    thanks.

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Hi there Ross. Just one simple question. How did u put the tagline window on your db?
Genius !    thanks.

Do you mean how I managed to get the window in this position, or how I added the window? 

I'd like to know how did u added the window.
One other thing. i'd like also to know how do i ad a banner to the same window?

Hi there Addicted... Thanks is working jut fine! Brilliant Idea by the way.
But I'm also interesting in adding it a banner, similar to the ones we used on EPG.
Do u have any idea how can i make this?

Zefeer, you mean adding an image, with the changing tagline underneath it, all in a single window?