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APPENDIX
3. ...
For Advanced
Users
My Lil Movie Jukebox FILTERS!!
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I've been getting quite few emails from users asking
for a version of "My Lil Movie
Jukebox" that allows for the user to make up and export their
own Genres (Filters). They also wanted to be able to key in the
names for these Genres, ie., for
German, French, etc .
Sooooooo, ... here it is! (Note: this section is
NOT
for beginners!)
STEP 1: Make sure you have run the
Movie_Jukebox_SETUP_123108.exe
setup program. which will install
the filters below.
STEP 2: Run the Movie Collector software program. You now have
to setup your filters for exporting over to the PCH. Open up
the window to Create/Modify Filters. As shown below, you have 20
Filters that you can make, that the My Lil Movie Jukebox (GC)
software will export for you. The filters must be named starting
with "101" thru "120", followed by a "space", then followed by
whatever wording you choose. These labels are NOT the wording that
will get exported over to the Jukebox. (that comes later) They do
not have to be in order either.
So, setup these filters however you wish, .. and
label them appropriately. (do not forget the xxx prefix followed by
a space) |
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note: all I did above was to use the filters from the standard
rev4, and then just edited
each filter name to add the 101, etc ... at the beginning!
NOTE: with revision 5, you also have a filter
named 100, which is the ALL MOVIES filter.
and, as you can see from the above screen, the 100 filter has
TITLE NOT EQUAL to "blank"
which means ... ALL MOVIES :)
but, should you desire, you can change this filter to prevent some
of your movies from
being exported over to your NMT. You could, for example, change this
to be
ANY FIELD NOT EQUAL to Elvis Presley which would send all movies
over to your index file
on the NMT, EXCEPT Elvis Presley movies.
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STEP 3. If you made any changes to your
filters in Moc, .. then when you run the Export program, you'll have
to
also make changes to the Filter / Genres tab. |
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A WALK THRU example:
Suppose that we wanted to make a change to the
standard filters. We don't have any James Bond movies, but we do
have alot of Elvis Presley movies. Let's change the filters to
replace the BOND filter with the ELVIS filter.
Open the Moc program, Click
SEARCH, SET FILTER, Create / Modify Filters, and you'll see the filters screen
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| Click on the 119 Bond filter and let's change it. |
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| Change the Field Value to be Elvis Presley. |
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| Changes made! (note, I made a mistake on the spelling, .. but I
figure it out later and change it!) |
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Next, we need to rename the Filter from 119 Bond to
119 Elvis.
NOTE: The Movie Jukebox Export program REQUIRES you to leave the
numeric labels in place, ... ie 100 ... 102,... 119 xxxx in
order to export
the filters correctly, so do NOT mess with the numbering system! |
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OK, Everything is changed, and we're ready to export!!!!!
Once we finish with the changes, and click OK, .. we see our Elvis
Movies in the display window. |
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Now, let's Export our movies. Run the
My_Movie_Jukebox_EXPORT.exe program, and
CLICK on the Filters / Genres tab.
Locate the 119 Filter and change the Filter Link Name to
Elvis. |
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| Then change the Filter Page Title to read
Elvis Presley Movies |
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| and now we're done, ... and ready to export our movies. Click
export. |
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When the export finishes, and we run the PCH, we now see our new
Movie Genre in place!!!!!! :)
Enjoy!!! |
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Note:
After you have made your genres, and did the
first export, entering all the genre names, the next time it's much
much easier,
.. because if you don't change anything, .. you won't have to re-key in
the genre information
as the program will remember what you entered the first time
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