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aviManager - Manual
Chapter 5 - Hints

Many things are obvious, but aviManager has some great "hidden" features:

5.1 Searching

Regular Expressions in search. Keywords between two slashes (/keyword/) are treated as regular expressions. The last slash is not required (/keyword works,too) Examples:

Problem: If you search for "foobar", fuzzy search finds too much. Solution: use simple regex /foobar instead
```
          	foobar gets foobaa, fooba, ...
          	/foobar gets only foobar
```

List all movies start with letter X (search is not case sensitive) type /^x and select movielist in combobox so that Xander Berkeley will be ignored

List all movies from 1966
```
     /\t1966
```
(\t is tab and standard sepearator in movies.txt, /1966 will list also movies with 1966 in imdb number)

List all movies better than imdb-rating 9 (10.0 will be ignored)
```
     /\t9\..*
```

5.2 Voting

Fast Voting (just 3 clicks per movie) with this features:

aviManager sets "seen" to 1 if you vote (rating) for a movie and current value for seen is 0.

Next/Prev not yet voted for links in detailpage.

5.3 Find Movie

aviManager displays movies (not in single_user_mode) in find results with different back- ground colors. The darker, the more other people want to see this movie. Great with many users.

Maybe you want to turn "Check wishlist" off if you watch a movie with friends that have not yet voted. Then, only your seen and (imdb-)rating will count, not your wishes.

5.4 Add Movie

There are four methods of adding movies:

Search IMDb: Simply type the movie title in the search field of this box. If there are more than one results, click on the movie you want to add and avimanager grabs the data immediately

Add by directory name: If you have an DivX movie which follows "The DivX Releasing Standards 2002", you can simply add this movie by cnp the directoryname in this box. This feature is still beta, please send me directory names where this does not work!!!

Add by IMDb number: cnp the IMDb number in the corresponding field in the "Add Movie" Box

Add Movie (Offline): This allows you to add movies without the IMDB-grabber

5.5 Burning Movies to CDROM/DVD

When you add a movie, aviManager sets status to "not burned". If you have burned some movies on a DVD, you can go to the "not burned" page (first link in the admin box), select them and add a description for that DVD. You can create hierarchies with slashes, e.g. a description DVD/2005/001 will create a tree DVD->2005->001 in the "All Media" page.

5.6 Different formats for movie lists

If you have many movies, you don't want this colourful default movie list with plot and cover. Set $use_wn_format = 0; in aviman.cfg and you get a table with need much less space.

5.7 Update Votes

With the cgi-script update_votes.pl, you can update imdb votes and rating. Goto http://your.server.com/cgi-bin/aviman/update_votes.pl?plot=1 to grab all votes, ratings and plots.