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apd
Junior Member
Greece
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 Posted - 17 Feb 2006 : 20:47:04
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Hello, I just found out about XMM and I'm trying to evaluate it. It looks very promissing, but I have a problem exporting files in HTML-DB. I imported some info from IMDB and other sites, and exported pages using almost all moviecards. When I viewing the pages in IE, some fields (for example Music, Awards etc) do not show the content they have inside XMM (in normal and moviecard views). Any ideas? Thanks in advance for answering...
PS I tested using W2K with IE v. 6.0.2800.1106
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Alessio Viti
Forum Admin
Italy
9171 Posts |
Posted - 18 Feb 2006 : 00:18:46
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Hi,
The (x)HTML-DB requires special moviecards, not all are compatible. You must use for example the moviecards with name "moviecard_0X..."
Let me know if you have problems.
Alessio |
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apd
Junior Member
Greece
378 Posts |
Posted - 18 Feb 2006 : 11:36:32
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Hi, thanks for the quick reply. I'm afraid I still have the same problem. I've tried to export xHtml-DB using:
moviecard_01_ALL (HTML-DB Comp) modified by cortex.html
So here's a list of problems/questions. Please try to :
1. In IE some fields do not show their content. Among others: Music, Location, Box ID, Awards. How can I fix that?
2. In IE some fields are strange: "Year" appears correctly inside the Table, but not on the top of the page. Also, the field "NOTES" (in the top right side of the table) shows the content from "N. of CD's".
3. In IE I can not select and copy a part of the page. Is that normal?
4. In IE I can not use FIND IN PAGE. Is that normal?
5. In IE the Fields with Greek characters appear incorrectly. Why can't I change the encoding?
6. In Firefox 1.5 the template appears, but no field has content.
(I've also exported in CSV and it's much better: the Fields "Music" "Awards" and "Notes" show the correct content, and greek characters appear correctly.)
Can you please comment?
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Cybernoid
Starting Member
Germany
14 Posts |
Posted - 21 Feb 2006 : 04:21:35
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hi
since alessio is busy programming at version 5 i thought i could have a look at your prob. :)
most of the problems are related to the javascript engine that displays the navigation and changes the moviecard accordingly in the exported db.
1. the engine has no tags for music, location and awards, so its not possible to export them with xhtml-db
2. this is a problem of the moviecard itself. if you want to try to fix it, take a look at mawu's page http://www.wunderlin-online.de/buildingmoviecards.htm
3.+4. this seems to be permitted by the js engine.. cant really tell because the source code of the main html files seems somewhat encrypted..
5. i dont know how to solve that one because i dont know very much about different encodings :(
6. i think this is also a problem of the js engine that seems to use some non-standard (i.e. IE-only) instructions and firefox does not recognize them.. or maybe its an instruction with just a little typo in it.. firefox is very strict about obeying standards in contrast to IE
hope that helps a little bit (at least to understand why)
i dont know what alessio has planned for version 5 with db-exporting but i hope the db export feature gets some kind of update, too. that could solve some of your problems..
greetings
cybernoid
>..my finger's on the 'kill' switch...<
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apd
Junior Member
Greece
378 Posts |
Posted - 21 Feb 2006 : 11:11:10
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| Thanks for the reply. I tried fiddling with the moviecards in frontpage and it seems that the values exported are somehow embedded in the cell itself: Even if I change the visible field name, I get the original content in the exported web page. Anyway, I like the program enough to give a real try, so I paid through Paypal. So, Alessio, do you think you can comment on the issues not addressed by Cybernoid? (3+4+5) |
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Alessio Viti
Forum Admin
Italy
9171 Posts |
Posted - 21 Feb 2006 : 11:42:08
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Hi Guys,
Sorry for my late reply!
The (x)HTML-DB techlogy is made from another user, MemTronic. It used JS for engine, and a special cryptation of code.
I don't know very much this language, but I think that all limitation of 3-4-5 is because of the JS engine.
In the new 5.0 I will re-write the export from scracth, and probably I will ask to MemTronic to update the (x)HTML-DB with new fields.
Thank you!
Alessio |
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Cybernoid
Starting Member
Germany
14 Posts |
Posted - 21 Feb 2006 : 15:28:59
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@apd
editing in frontpage has no real use because you cant change the tags that really do the work in the background :)
have a look directly at the source code, its not that difficult even if it seems so at first ;)
the reason why the content doesnt change when you change the field name is that both are encoded separately. for example:
<td width="10%" valign="top" align="left" bgcolor="#EFEFEF" height="13"><b>_TMOVIE_DIRECTOR_</b></td>
<td width="25%" valign="top" align="left" bgcolor="#EFEFEF" height="13" id="mDIR">_MOVIE_DIRECTOR_</td>
in the first row is described the table cell for the field name, in this example "Director". the term _TMOVIE_DIRECTOR_ gets replaced with the translation for your language when the moviecard is generated.
the second row is the table cell for the content, so _MOVIE_DIRECTOR_ gets replaced with the name of the director (e.g. George Lucas), at least in "normal" moviecards. but for xhtmldb cards the id="mDir" tag is the one that does the work.
so when you change the field name in frontpage you only change the first row but not the one that actually does the work.
@alessio
it would be great to get an updated version of the xhtml-db feature. hopefully memtronic finds some time to add some new fields and get rid of some little bugs :) maybe there is even a way to use the _TMOVIE_ and _MOVIE_ tags for replacement so that we dont have to do two or even three (generaldb2html) versions of one moviecard to suite everybodies needs..
bye
cybernoid
>..my finger's on the 'kill' switch...<
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apd
Junior Member
Greece
378 Posts |
Posted - 03 Mar 2006 : 23:19:45
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Hi guys, it took a while to create my database so I didn't fiddle with eporting until now. I'm not really satisfied with HTML DB, but I found out that exporting "Moiviecards" seems PERFECT! Apparently, all fields seem update correctly. So I now have a web page for each of my movies and I need to connect them to a central Index page. Do you have any ideas?
PS. I actually created a CSV and saved it as Interactiv HTM in Excel. The result is a great table with sortable columns, which is exactly what I wanted! Is there a way to use Export HTML Report No 4, using links to the local pages? |
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Alessio Viti
Forum Admin
Italy
9171 Posts |
Posted - 04 Mar 2006 : 08:32:27
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Hi Apd,
I am doing exactly what you want these days, in 5.0 release.
The new alpha 7 is ready, today I will release it, and I have finish much things.
I think that in one week I will release the first beta for all (Anyway, I need to write all manuals, video tutorials and make multi-language support).
Alessio |
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foxejoe
Starting Member
Italy
5 Posts |
Posted - 12 Mar 2006 : 13:15:21
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It will also be nice if the new field "personalRating" can be include in the movicards.
I mean I need a HTML field as "_MOVIE_TITLE" for the "Title" XMM field also for the new "Personal rating" XMM field.
Thanks
Lorenzo
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