Avails - MovieLabs

Documentation:

Source code is available on the Movie Labs mddf GitHub repoistory. If you would like more information, please contact us.

This release of the desktop Avails Validation tool contains multiple bug fixes associated with the translation of an Avails to or from XLSX.

Primary features are:

EMA Avails Metadata validation.
Integrated XML editor -- intended for making corrections in an Avails file that doesn't yet validate.
Conversion of XLSX Avails file into XML or XML into XLSX.

Bug fix: When translating v1.6 XLSX Avails to v1.7 XLSX or v2.2 XML, StoreLanguage was not properly converted to AssetLanguage.
Bug fix: When translating v1.6 XLSX Avails to v1.7 XLSX or v2.2 XML, HoldbackExclusionLanguage was not properly converted to AllowedLanguage.
Bug fix: When translating XLSX Avails to XML any SharedEntitlements were dropped.
Bug fix: When translating XLSX Avails to XML redundant ReleaseHistory elements were not removed
Bug fix: When translating XML Avails to XLSX the spreadsheet for Movies was incorrectly identified as 'Movie'
Bug fix: When translating XML Avails to XLSX the AvailID was always set to the TransactionID of the 1st Transaction.
Modification: LicenseRightsDescription is now treated as freeform when validating Avails.
Bug Fix: Excel-formatted TV Avails threw exception when processing ReleaseHistory for a Season.
Enhancement: processing of TV Avails specified in Excel v1.6 format now handles 'Exception(s)Flag' typo in the template
Enhancement: Inability to parse Avails in XLSX due to embedded objects or comments now results in log msgs clearly identifying problem.
Enhancement: CLI support for translation of Avails

Validation of XML Avails based on versions of the specification prior to V2.1 is not supported.
Excel files must be in xlsx format.
Validation of Excel Avails files is limited to a single sheet.

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Avails Validator (1.2.1)