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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).

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

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).
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).

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).
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 pdf­document.
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.
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).

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

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