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Movie Search...

Opens the Search dialog that allows you to search the database for a movie by certain criteria, such as title, original title, movie number, director, scenario, actor, description, media type, media label, studio, lent to, comments and others (see Finding a movie).

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Barcode Search

Open the dialog that allows you to search the database for a movie by the bar code (see Finding a movie).

Generate Play list

Open the Generate Playlist Wizard which in four easy steps helps you to make a playlist of your favourite movies. The option works for movies located on your hard drive and only for those having the 'Local path' field filled in. The playlist file created can be opened by any video player program, and the movies are played there in the order they are specified in the playlist.

 

Suggest a movie

Suggest a movie from your movie collection selected in a random way.

Loan History

Presents an overall picture of all movies loaned out, debtors, dates lent, due and returned.

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Statistics...

Shows database statistics: number of movies by media type, genre, year, video codec, debtors, custom fields (see Viewing collection statistics).

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Export to HTML...

Opens the dialog where you can select the template, fields to be included into the report, and choose a destination folder for the output. Clicking on the Go button generates the HTML report (see Exporting).

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Export to CHM (compiled HTML)...

Opens the dialog where you can select the template, fields to be included into the report, and choose a destination folder for the output. Clicking on the "Go" button generates the CHM report (see Exporting).

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Export to plain text...

Opens the dialog where you can select the fields to be included into the report, separator (tab, comma, semicolon) and a destination folder for the output. Clicking on the "Go" button generates the report in plain text (see Exporting).

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Export to Microsoft Excel...

Opens the dialog where you can select the fields to be included into the report and a destination folder for the output. Clicking on the "Go" button generates the report in plain text (see Exporting).

Export to PDF

Opens the dialogue where you can select one of the templates available or create your own one and choose the fields to include in the final pdf-document.

Export to image

Opens the dialogue window where you can specify the destination folder, choose the file name, image format and resolution and change other options.

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Export to the mobile device...

Opens the dialog where you specify the title for export and movies for export. NOTE! Prior to export, make sure your mobile device is connected and Microsoft ActiveSync is running (see Exporting).

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Import from text (CSV)...

Opens the dialog to import a text file to All My Movies (see Importing).

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Import from Microsoft Excel...

Opens the dialogue window to import an Excel file to All My Movies (see Importing).

Scan drive for movies

Opens the dialogue window where you specify the disc or folder to scan and find movies.

Update TMDb details

Opens the dialogue window where you can select the movies for which you want to update TMDb details. Note: only movies with correct TMDb links will be updated.

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Preferences

Opens the dialogue to customize the look and feel of All My Movies. From here, you can add or remove interface elements, select the skin, language, select the online databases, customize proxy settings, add custom fields for movie cards and much more (see Preferences)