Game Collector Manual
for Windows edition
Welcome to Game Collector Download and Install Navigating the Main Screen Adding and Editing Games How to search your Collection Adding Games Automatically Adding Games Manually Barcode Scanning Importing from text Adding Hardware Managing your wish list Field Defaults Editing Multiple Games Editing Games List Items and more Find Cover Image Update File Links Adding a box set Managing Loans Customizing Game Collector Sorting your Collection Custom Field Names Custom Views Edit, Merge List Items Activating Connect Sync & Share Synchronize with Connect Linking your games for Connect CLZ Games for iPhone/iPod CLZ Games for Android CLZ Games HD for iPad Printing a Simple List Using the Filter screen Updating Game Collector The Statistics Screen Print screen Keyboard Shortcuts Creating a Backup Import From Text Data Submission Guidelines Validating Game Collector
Importing from text
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Preparing for Import
With Game Collector you can import a .csv or text list. Game Collector's text import is limited to three fields: Title, platform and UPC.
Your text/csv should look something like this:
Important: It is not possible to import any additional fields. Your text file must contain only these fields, and must also use the same order, i.e. title followed by platform, followed by UPC. After importing your text list you can update it with additional information from our central database (e.g. cover image, plot, publisher, etc).
Importing
Here's how to import:
- Start Game Collector
- Click: File > Import From > Text
- Click 'Browse' and locate your txt/csv file
- Set the text qualifiers and delimiters to match your text file
- Check the preview to ensure everything appears correctly
- Once complete, click OK to import the list
Text Import screen showing a text file ready to be imported.
Updating your data
After importing you can retreive more information from the Collectorz.com online Game Database such as cover image, plot, publisher, format etc. Here's how:
- Click Edit > Select All
- Click Edit > Update Game(s) Automatically
- A message will appear asking you if you'd like to link your games, click Yes.
- Game Collector will now search our online database
- Results will be shown at the bottom of the screen
- Select a result form our database then click Update
Update Games screen.
You can also click Search All to search all of your imported games, then click Update All to update all games in the list which have an exact match. If an exact match is not found in our central database, a list of results will be provided from which you can select the correct result.
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