Book Collector Manual
for Windows edition
Welcome to Book Collector Download and Install Navigating the Main Screen Adding Books How to search your Collection Adding Books Automatically Adding Books Manually Barcode Scanning Adding e-book Files Search Settings Importing from text Managing your Wish List Importing from Windows/XML Field Defaults Editing Books Editing Multiple Books List Items and more Adding Links and Files Update File Links Find Cover Image Managing Pseudonyms Editing List Icons Adding a Box Set Changing the layout Sorting your Collection Custom Field Names Using Folders Custom Views Edit, Merge List Items Customizing Book Collector Activating Connect Sync & Share Linking your books for Connect CLZ Books for iPhone/iPod CLZ Books for Android CLZ Books HD for iPad Loan Manager Printing a Simple List Lists for insurance purposes Using the Filter screen Updating Book Collector The Options Screen Print screen Keyboard Shortcuts Creating a Backup Data Submission Guidelines Lists for insurance purposes Collection Statistics Validating Book Collector Field Reference
Edit, Merge List Items
With every book you add to your collection, Book Collector stores common information in Lists. These lists come in most handy when add, or edit new books. A real time saver!
All common information, such as Year, Genre, Format, Location, Owner, etc., is stored in Lists that you can easily edit. You can add, edit, delete and merge these List Items. When you do, the results of your alterations are immediately visible in the drop down boxes Edit book screen.
Edit lists
In this example, we are going to edit the Owner List. This is a useful list, when your book collection contains books that belong to the different members of your family or group of friends.
- Click: Tools > Edit Lists
- Click the Yellow Folder and select: Personal > Owner List
- Click the Add Item Icon next to the yellow folder, add an Owner and click OK
- Add as many owners as necessary and close the Manage Lookup Lists Screen
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The names you've added to the Owner List are now available from the drop down menu in the Edit book screen.
When you need to make changes to items in your list, just click the Edit Item button from the toolbar. You can also delete items from your lists, by clicking the, well, the delete button from the toolbar.
Note: you can not delete a list item that is in use. When you want to remove a list item, make sure it is not used anywhere, or merge it with another item (see Merging List Items)
Merging List Items
You can merge multiple List Items into one. For example, in the Owner List, you want to combine two owners (let's combine the owners Mom & Dad to one - and then rename the owner to: Parents)
- Click: Tools > Edit Lists
- Click the Yellow Folder and select: Personal > Owner List
- Select the Owners Mom & Dad (use CTRL+click to select)
- Right click on one of the items and select: Merge Selected To > Dad
- When prompted, click Yes.
Merge button
Clicking the Merge button in the toolbar, will also merge selected items into one item. Be cautious, however, because clicking it will NOT give you the choice to which item you want to merge the multiple items. It will merge to the item which is most often used in your collection.
