This tutorial will show you how to:
- Create a new list
- Create an item and load its data from the internet
- Change the columns shown in the Main Table
- Create a Smart List that will automatically load its content
- Create a folder that contains all the lists in this tutorial
- Sync data with Hunter Touch
All the images and videos for this tutorial are taken from Dvd Hunter, however all the steps described work also in Book Hunter and Game Hunter.
Create a new list
First, we’ll create a new list to contain all the items created in the tutorial.
- Press the "New List" button in the toolbar
Create an item and load its data from the internet
Now we have a new empty list. Let’s add a new item in it.
- Press the "New Something" Button in toolbar. Something means Movie for DVD Hunter, Game for Game Hunter and Book for Book Hunter
A new window will open. You’ll be able to edit all the new item info.
Of course you can insert all the info manually, but we’re lazy… let’s load them from the internet.
- write some information that could identify the item you want to insert.
For example title: Lord of Rings; Director: jackson
- press the autocomplete button
hen the info is ready, a sheet will appear. You’ll be able to select the correct item and save its info.
You can see that info has been loaded from Amazon US; but, I’ve got a region 2 DVD so this information isn’t correct. I want to load the information from Amazon UK.
- click on the pop up button (where you see "Amazon (US)"
- select the correct autocomplete plug-in and press the search button
When you find the correct data for your item, you’ll probably want to save them..
- You should check the box "Replace existing fields". Fields with existing information are not overwritten unless "Replace Existing Fields" is checked.
- Press Save
Now, we have all of the information about the items loaded.
Change the columns shown in the Main Table
Ok move back to Main Window. The movie table look a little bit empty… why should we display only title of items? Let’s add some info
- Right click on the header of item’s table
- a Menu will pop up. Click on all the items you want to see in column.
For example: Duration, Director, Last Seen
It’s possible also to reorder columns.
Here you can find a movie that shows inserting, reordering, and removing columns for item’s table
Create a Smart List that will automatically load its content
A Smart List (like an iTunes one) is a list that will automatically update its content using the rule you specify.
- Press the “Create New Smart List” button in toolbar.
The Smart List editor will appear:
- Setup all the rules you want (for example: Director contains jackson; Starring contains carrey
- Press Save
The list will load the items specified by the rules
Create a folder that contains all the lists in this tutorial
A folder can contains list. This could help when organizing your library and you’ve got a lot of lists.
To Create a new folder:
- From Menu: File -> New Folder
Now let’s Drag and Drop the List and Smart list into the folder.
A Sample video of drag and drop list.
Sync data with Hunter Touch
Now, let’s copy all this "useful" items to your iPhone/IPod Touch.
Open the Preferences for Synchronization.
Enable it by selecting "Enable Network Synchronization"
If the system firewall in active a message will appear:
"Do you want the application Dvd Hunter.app to accept incoming network connections?"
We got to Allow incoming connections otherwise sync will not work!
Now open Hunter Touch on your iphone.
Select "Sync"
If the iPhone is connected to wifi network you’ll see your computer in the list
You can select a software to sync with, or your mac. If you select your mac Hunter Touch will sync with all the Hunter Suite software running on your mac.
Ok if all is working correctly we’ll see a message on the Hunter Suite.
"Do you want to sync your movies with: Your iPhone?"
Select Yes