Advanced Report 6.4 - Updated 24/06/2014

guermantes · Post by **guermantes** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 3:36 pm

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Suddenly I have encountered a new CSS related problem. This time it is with IE6.

I like to put a position adjustment in the body markup statement in the external CSS. Just give it a bit of margin to the left and at the top. This is what the body statement reads like:

body
{ font-family : Verdana, sans-serif ; background-color : #ffffff ; font-size : 9pt ; color : #464646 ; position: relative; top: 30px; left: 10%; }

I used this exact line in the CSS when I reported my previous problems with Firefox above. At that time (before and after the Firefox problems were solved) IE had no problems positioning the text correctly. But suddenly now IE just disregards the positioning information for new reports that I create.

IE still displays the old report correctly. But even when I replace the CSS for new reports with the old one that functions with the old report, the new report is not displayed correctly. IE picks up on all the other changes I have made to the CSS (colour, hover etc) but not the positioning.

I am completely lost. I have wasted a whole afternoon with this without getting any wiser. Running tests back and forth. Generated new files, with and without unicode support. Editing new CSS. Copying old CSS. Testing new reports on old CSS, changing encodings and what not....

I do my CSS editing in GoLive CS2 so there should be no problems with the code of the CSS. I have no clue why it is still working in the old file because when I was troubleshooting the Firefox problems I did so many things to both the CSS and the html.

Can you get IE6 to respond to position specifications in the body statement ?

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EDIT!

Christ almighty! I always do this. I trouble shoot for hours and then decide to ask someone and a few minutes after posting the question I realise I have not tried something out and that turns out to be the solution.

This time it is the non-existence of DOCTYPE statement in the reports.

By adding these lines a took from a GoLive blank page IE behaves the way i want it to:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

I know there are versions of this statement but as your reports probably follow one of those standards it could be an idea to add that info at the top of the generated html.

The HTML validator at www.w3.org seems to think it is a statement that ought to be included...

Thanks for your good work on this great plugin!

guermantes · Post by **guermantes** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 11:04 pm

Hi, another suggestion for future versions:

1 HTML page for each artist with all albums included.

I just finished uploading my archive to my site and a total of 3500 files took more than 30 minutes to upload, as opposed to 10 seconds when I uploaded the single file archive. I prefer to use multiple files since there were problems for Opera to navigate the single file report.

Could have the same format as now but a horizontal ruler or something that divides between the 'artist's albums' list and the 'album+tracks' list.

trixmoto · Post by **trixmoto** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 5:25 am

Ok, I'll take these suggestions on board!

pakthedude · Post by **pakthedude** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 1:44 pm

I found out that there's a (Album unknown) (top) with a 200width "NONE" Album Art

Tried to enable Only include album artist. Same thing..

But when it's disabled (not check), i can see unknown artist and unknown album with the other artist and album names

trixmoto · Post by **trixmoto** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 5:37 am

I'm not sure what you're trying to tell me. Are you saying you don't have any tracks without an album name so it shouldn't be appearing?

pakthedude · Post by **pakthedude** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 6:41 am

I'm not sure what you're trying to tell me. Are you saying you don't have any tracks without an album name so it shouldn't be appearing?

Yes

All my mp3s are tagged with AlbumArt, artist, album and album artist.

Eventhough I don't have any unknown artist/album, it still appear

trixmoto · Post by **trixmoto** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 7:17 am

The is happening because even though you don't have any, the unknown artist and album records are still there in the database. I will fix it so that these are only shown if there are some though, in the next version.

trixmoto · Post by **trixmoto** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 8:59 am

New version (4.1) is now available to download from my website. Changes include...

- Added file header to start of all html output pages
- Fixed albums displaying which contain no tracks
- Added <|> to track mask to allow data to be displayed table form [*]
- Fixed error when adding links to tracks with invalid characters in filename
- Fixed report path can't always create itself
- Added option to change page title
- Added option to list album genres

[*] I liked this one so much the default mask is now

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<Track#><|><Title><|><Artist><|><Stars>

Please provide feedback!!

pakthedude · Post by **pakthedude** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 11:26 am

NICE! It's getting better and better!

Btw, is there a way to sort the list by artist in alphabetic order?

Artist A, Album 1, Album 2, Album 3
Artist B, Album 1, Album 2, Album 3
Artist C, Album 1, Album 2, Album 3

Right now, the list I created is sort by albums in alphabetic order.
It's the same when I set Album mask to (<Artist>) <Name> [<Year>]

trixmoto · Post by **trixmoto** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 3:19 pm

The whole idea of the script is that the artists are listed alphabetically AND the albums are listed alphabetically, with links between them. It gives you the best way of searching for the information you're after. Does it not?

pakthedude · Post by **pakthedude** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 10:49 am

ok, here's mine track list

http://pakthedude.phpnet.us/music/

this shows the albums by no doubt

http://pakthedude.phpnet.us/music/#artist3614

when i go to "Return of Saturn"

http://pakthedude.phpnet.us/music/#album2654

the next one is Ridin', instead of "Rock Steady"

this list was sort accordingly to the albums, in alphabatic order.

(No Doubt) Return of Saturn [2000] (top)
(Chamillionaire Feat. Krayzie Bone) Ridin' [2006] (top)
(Atomic Kitten) Right Now [2000] (top)
(No Doubt) Rock Steady [2001] (top)
(Corrinne May) Safe in a Crazy World [2005] (top)

instead of
(Nat King Cole) L-O-V-E [1964] (top)
(No Doubt) Return of Saturn [2000] (top)
(No Doubt) Rock Steady [2001] (top)
(No Doubt) Tragic Kingdom [2001] (top)
(Norah Jones) Come Away with Me [2002] (top)
(OLIVIA) synchronicity [2000] (top)[/url]

trixmoto · Post by **trixmoto** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 11:32 am

I understand what you are trying to say, but this is not a bug, this is the way the script is supposed to work!

Black_jesus · Post by **Black_jesus** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 9:44 am

Hey people,

Awesome report - which i can get to half work but this pops up and it crashes out (error follows):

Any ideas?

(got latest mm version and report installed from ur site today)

trixmoto · Post by **trixmoto** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 5:21 am

This means that one of your artists starts with a strange character. If you open the script file in a text editor you should see that line 574 is...

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fout.WriteLine "<a href='"&href&"#"&cap&"' accesskey='"&cap&"'"&targ&">"&MapXML(cap)&"</a>"

Could you please replace this line with the following...

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On Error Resume Next
fout.WriteLine "<a href='"&href&"#"&cap&"' accesskey='"&cap&"'"&targ&">"&MapXML(cap)&"</a>"
If Err.Number > 0 Then
  MsgBox "err="&MapXML(cap)
  Err.Clear
End If
On Error Goto 0

Then run the script again and you should get a different popup - what does this say?

trixmoto · Post by **trixmoto** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 6:56 pm

New version (4.2) now has the above error fixed, I think. The first character is converted to ASCII so that it will write to the file without error.

Advanced Report 6.4 - Updated 24/06/2014

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