Many, many thanks, nolesrule.

I just wish I'd learned that a few years ago.

The embarrassing thing is that it's so damn obvious once you’ve seen it.

Again, thanks.

Quoting thekochs:

Quote:
Tom, there seems to be a bug in Cinematic Viewer 3.x to 2.x XML import/export conversion.  Something is happening with the CTL characters.  See this thread on what cmhardwick says...I see these as well:  http://xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=5814&start=15

During the import, I replace LF with CRLF because otherwise the linebreaks are not properly displayed inside the program.
Would it solve your problem, if during the export CRLF is replaced with LF again?

There are other characters not displaying correctly as well, I think. usually special characters. When you look at the converted (2.0) xml, they are coded like &amp20, etc. Similar to what you see in a web URL with spaces. These "codes" are not present in the "pre-import" file

Hope this helps.

Funny, when I asked for this option MONTHS ago I was laughed at.

I would prefer Ken add the export as 2.4 option. I mean microsoft has save file as (07, 95-03, etc) options.

Funny thing is when I convert the "funny" characters crash my xlobby.
Send me a beta, i'll try it out.
rdance3@optonline.net

Quoting sknyfs:

Quote:
Funny, when I asked for this option MONTHS ago I was laughed at.

I would prefer Ken add the export as 2.4 option. I mean microsoft has save file as (07, 95-03, etc) options.

Funny thing is when I convert the "funny" characters crash my xlobby.
Send me a beta, i'll try it out.
rdance3@optonline.net

MS has that so that the file can work with earlier versions of its software. It wasn't designed so that your MS Word document could be read by other software. I still think it should be up to those external programs to support the latest version of the DVD Profiler export. Remember, Xlobby claimed that its program could use the XML file from DVDP; Ken never made the claim.

That said, Tom has done a lot of people a favor by making the v2.4 export available, but it's not Ken's responsibility.

Tom, thanks very much....looking forward to the formal release that incorporates this.

Thanks again....it is a big help and very appreciated !!!!

Many thanks to Tom for 1.5.1 which you can now batch a Profiler export, CCViewier import of that 3.x XML and export to 2.4 XML.  All automated !!!  Tom helped me out getting this correct and I wish I could upload the files but they are simple so here they are...

Create this BAT and TXT files.  Note, for this example I have the CCViewer.EXE, my CCViewer database (DVDs.mdb), and both the Proifler export XML (collection3) and CCviewer export XML (collection2) all in same directory.  Once these are created just run (double click on it in Windows Explorer or create a shortcut) the BAT file....it should automatically open Profiler, you see an export, close Profiler, open CCviewer, you see an import, then you see an export, close CCViewer, done. 

Conversion.bat
Cd\
ECHO Converting (Import/Export) DVD Profiler 3.x XML to 2.4 XML
"C:\Program Files\DVD Profiler\dvdpro.exe" /CommandFile C:\Convert\ProfilerCommand.txt
C:\Convert\CCViewer.exe C:\Convert\CCVCommand.txt
ECHO Completed
pause

ProfilerCommand.txt
ExportXMLAll C:\Convert\collection3.xml
Close

CCVCommand.txt
OpenDatabase C:\Convert\DVDs.mdb
ImportProfilerDatabase C:\Convert\collection3.xml
ExportProfiler2Database C:\Convert\collection2.xml
Close

NOTE: If you want to put these in a directory under MyDocs and thus have long path names you can do this.  However, if there are any spaces in that path name(s) you will need to enclose all of the appropriate paths with space in quotes. The EXCEPTION to this is the paths in CCVCommand.txt should NOT have quotes around them...AND....the path that points to the CCVCommand.tx file in the BAT file => C:\Convert\CCViewer.exe C:\Convert\CCVCommand.txt should NOT be in quotes....EVEN if you have spaces in path.  ALL other paths...I repeat..ALL other paths should have quotes if there are spaces in that path.  An edited example where I just renamed my above Convert directory to include a space for example is now Convert Profiler. Obviously, you can change this to your actual path names.........

Conversion.bat
Cd\
ECHO Converting (Import/Export) DVD Profiler 3.x XML to 2.4 XML
"C:\Program Files\DVD Profiler\dvdpro.exe" /CommandFile "C:\Convert Profiler\ProfilerCommand.txt"
"C:\Convert\CCViewer.exe" C:\Convert Profiler\CCVCommand.txt
ECHO Completed
pause

ProfilerCommand.txt
ExportXMLAll "C:\Convert Profiler\collection3.xml"
Close

CCVCommand.txt
OpenDatabase C:\Convert Profiler\DVDs.mdb
ImportProfilerDatabase C:\Convert Profiler\collection3.xml
ExportProfiler2Database C:\Convert Profiler\collection2.xml
Close

Ok, trying the scripted method for the first time, but the commandfile doesn't execute in my DVD Profiler. It opens the program but just sits there. I'm using 3.03, Build 1136