First I entered the movie title manually.
Second I download the movie data from IMDB. This supplies the actors/actresses. They are "hidden" by default.
At this point, the hidden entries should already have an URL leading to the correct IMDB record.
The picture you appended to your post only showed few fields (name, movie list). please go to the options and check that all checkmarks are set, including to show the URLs. Or start edit mode which shows all fields (not to change anything, but only to check whether the URL field was set)
I didn't do this yet myself for my movies and thus i said "should have an URL".
If it hasn't, there was either something wrong, or PVD couldn't get the URL (because of changes in the IMDB layout, outofdate plugins, whatever), or this would be a very important missing/broken feature in PVD (in the IMDB plugin).
At least for movies, PVD uses an existing URL instead of the title to download data for a specific movie, and people should be handled the same. The IMDB page for a movie lists the actors with links to them, and those links could/should be imported into the (hidden) people list.
I don't know how PVD (or more specific the IMDB plugin) adds new people records to the database, but it probably does this "by name" and not "by URL" since the latter might require an extensive slow search of the PVD people database. As long as only one internet database like IMDB is used, this might be no problem since IMDB always uses a unique actor name (if necessary, something like "(I)", "(XXIV)" etc is appended to the name) and in the rare cases of name changes, the URL to the people would still be the same old URL.For movies neither such an appendix (I), (XXIV) nor the type (series, movie, game, etc) is saved, and thus there might be problems on a few people when their name changes, when there are some actors (or other professions) with the same name, etc, but that should be relatively few cases only, and even for those few cases, there should be at least one URL (if overwritten by other people with the same name) or several URLs (a list of all URLs for correct people), but never URLs for other people, and never no URL. in no case there should be 1017 people with no or multiple URLs when downloading actors with letters A-C for 713 movies.anyway, back to the important fact in this reply, as said above:
At this point, the hidden entries should already have at least one URL leading to an IMDB record.
Third I click on the actor/actress I want to have the data on.
Fourth, I download the actor/actress info from IMDB. In some cases there are similar names so it does not know who to pick so it shows multiple choices.
if there already is an URL (from step 2, see above), it should directly "download by URL" only that specific record and never have to get a list of "actors by name".
What I'd love to see happen is where if there are multiple names, perhaps it could choose the correct one based upon the movie(s) that are already associated with that actor/actress in my database.
Doing this search later would be very complicated, but the URL should already have been saved when the people record was created from getting the movie data, making it unnecessary to look for the movies again.
