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 | t001z | | Reg: January 30, 2005 |
| Registered: March 29, 2007 |  Posts: 103 |
| | Posted: | | | | Here is what I am thinking of. Currently I have developed a 3/page report (CTB w/Chick, Kid, Action & Slots - 3/page) that incorporates lots of features and it is nearly exactly what I want (nearly). Now that my collection has crept above a thousand titles, this is a significant amount of paper and I would like to cut back on what is being pulled into the report. I have a lot of television seasons, series, etc and I keep track of all of those individual disc profiles (like others, I do not assign a collection number to these child profiles) as well. This has created a problem for me in regards to this report, you see, with most TV shows taking either 4 or 6 discs, that is 1-1/2 to 2 pages of profiles in the report that I don't want to print for each season of a TV show. I would like to print off the Season profile only (not each discID under that season). What I am looking for is a way to set a condition or something like that on the entire individual disc profile. I would like to be able to say, do not display profile if there is no collection number associated with it. If anyone has suggestions, I can expound more on this, but don't want to confuse the matter (any more)  |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 4,594 |
| | Posted: | | | | Isn't there an option in reports for box sets? Can't it print just the parent and not the contents? | | | | My WebGenDVD online Collection |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 2,216 |
| | Posted: | | | | Don't know much about reports.
I would simply create a Tag "print it" and associate that with every entry you want to have on that list.
Then, when the great printing day comes up just filter those out an print "as filtered"
Sure, not as elegant as a condition would be, but works.
cya, Mithi | | | | Mithi's little XSLT tinkering - the power of XML --- DVD-Profiler Mini-Wiki |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 922 |
| | Posted: | | | | Flag the entries you don't want to print and invert the selection (Collection -> Flags -> Invert Flags). Next step, select Flagged entries only in the reports main menu. | | | 
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 3,432 |
| | Posted: | | | | I would agree with the Tag approach, as it's easily reproducible.
If the quantity of profiles not to be printed is significantly smaller, I would just tag those and then use the NOT filter to "sort them out" before printing. | | | Achim [諾亞信； Ya-Shin//Nuo], a German in Taiwan.
Registered: May 29, 2000 (at InterVocative) |
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| t001z | | Reg: January 30, 2005 |
| Registered: March 29, 2007 | | Posts: 103 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting SH84: Quote:
Flag the entries you don't want to print and invert the selection (Collection -> Flags -> Invert Flags). Next step, select Flagged entries only in the reports main menu. Sorry for the delay and thanks for replying, lost my Internet connection at home last night. This sounds like a good step except we are talking about several hundred discs for the TV seasons individual profiles. Checking all of these would require a lot of time ... I update/print out new pages of my reports every couple of weeks with my new dvds. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,432 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting t001z: Quote:
This sounds like a good step except we are talking about several hundred discs for the TV seasons individual profiles. Checking all of these would require a lot of time ... I update/print out new pages of my reports every couple of weeks with my new dvds. So use Tags... It can be easily reproduced each time you want to print. | | | Achim [諾亞信； Ya-Shin//Nuo], a German in Taiwan.
Registered: May 29, 2000 (at InterVocative) |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 4,594 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting t001z: Quote:
Checking all of these would require a lot of time ... Not necessarily. If all of your TV sets have Television as the primary genre as mine do all you would need to do is filter by genre Television, auto-expand box sets, highlight the first child profile in a set and hold down the spacebar which will begin flagging all profiles until you release the spacebar. Do this for all your TV sets. After that, clear all filters and invert flags. Now all of your TV set children will be flagless. You can now save this flagset so you won't have to do this again. Go to reports and make sure flagged entrys only is selected and run your report. I know it's not ideal but it's the only way I can think of. Tagging is another option as well. | | | | My WebGenDVD online Collection |
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| Registered: June 9, 2007 |  Posts: 1,208 |
| | Posted: | | | | Or maybe a comibnation of both methods. Use the flag method then just edit the tags of all the flagged dvds in one go. Saving the flagset would be a bit of a pain to add to imo (you'd have to load the set, flag the new ones then save it again) |
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