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After so many zillions of names a search/find capability for creators (editing the list) would be nice. One for Sort and one for display names (a sort capability for first and last combined and seperate).
While I'm at it I would like to be able to have the creator list subdivided into each of the categories (writer, cover artists, etc.)...remember this is a wish list.

Of course, they creator list was originally divided into multiple lists by their role. But everybody was annoyed by having to enter John Byrne, Aaron Williams, Bill Willingham, and many others into all the different lists they belong in, that the various creator lists were all combined into one massive list.

I'm not sure I follow you. What I would like to see is that if a name was entered as writer it would appear in the writer
list. If it was later entered under editor it would appear in the editor list also. There would be "redundancy" but this would
only reflect that persons work(s). You would only do what you do now, which is enter them in their respective categories when you enter the data for the comic. You'd only be entering a name once like it's done now, it would just be sent to that categories list.

That is how it used to work. You entered a name in the Writer slot, and it went to the writer list. But people pointed out, you have a lot of people, with more and more happening every year, who do more than one thing. There are series where you would have to enter John Byrne for the Writer, the Cover Penciller, the Penciller, and the Inker. So you have John Byrne in 4 different lists. Which not only takes longer to enter the first time you put someone like that in the program, it also takes up more room, since each instance takes up an internal ID number.

You still got me here. Now I'm trying to figure out, if as you say it used to be categorized writer/editor, etc., why it was changed. Sure there are going to be (a great deal) who will be in more than one list. That reflects what they did/do. So you have John Byrne in 4 different lists. That reflects what he did. There are going to be more than quite a few who will not be in mulitple lists. That refelcts what they did. How does it take longer to enter John Byrne the first time you put him in the program. ? Are you're talking about having to type in the full name the first time so that it autofills when you start typing next time. ? That's just the first time. (Trivial in my opinion) Is that why it was done away with. ? With the
price of storage space today I find it very difficult to believe that space was much of a consideration. Especially when character space in a db table is involved. (Maybe one of those strange omniscient CC creatures that haunt this board will make one of their illuminating appearances.) For the sake of accuracy and history I would like to be able to cross reff/list every job a particular creator was involved it. Or was not. I just don't find a massive list of every name that did whatever
very edifying or useful. Self edification becomes soooooo much more more important the larger your collection grows.

The search tool let's you query by name and see everything a particular creator did, regardless of credit.

I figured I'd add to this thread instead of starting a new one.

I think the following has been requested before. Currently, when entering the creator credits, you select the particular role (writer, inker, etc), then select the name. If you enter the wrong name, you are able to easily access the drop-down list and select another one. However, the reverse is not true. If you choose the wrong role, or if you are trying to change an incorrect entry (for example, change artist to penciller), you must delete the entry then enter a new one. This can be quite time consuming when the number of entries adds up.

Can we please get the ability to easily change the role field?

Thanks.

I'll second that request. This would be a huge time saver. A lot of the time corrections to the creator info for the issues is a change of role and not a new creator or different creator so this would be a huge plus.

I especially have this problem, because my penciler/artist fields are reversed from the online database. So I have to change just about every comic I download.

I would like to request a separation of the "add checked" button and the "Stop" buttons. Sometimes I just double touch the mouse/trackpad then do not realize that I have stopped the submission. Sometimes I do not notice. I would prefer to have two buttons separated with the "add checked" the default.

One small thing I just thought of was to have the ability to "Submit to Collectorz.com Comic Database" when you rightclick a comic (or a selection of comics) instead of having to go to Edit and then chose submit.

Is it possible to remove the leading "the" in titles such as "The Amazing Spider-Man" or "The Anchor" in the series within CC?

When I am adding new books through the Add Comics Automatically > New Releases function, I am working off either a Diamond Comics New Releases list or a packing list from my mail order distributor and they (along with most publishers) suppress this leading "the."

As I work down through my list adding books to CC, I end up having to scroll far down to the "T" section intermittently (and often) while following my other lists then back up to my place. For example, adding last weeks books, my first few entries are:

Anchor
Amazing Spider-Man
Archie
Blackest Night Superman
Brave and the Bold

To enter these books using the New Releases function, I have to scroll down to the Ts section to enter the first 2 books, then back up to the As (and down to the Bs) for the next 2 books, then back down to the Ts for Brave and Bold.

This is not a huge deal, but it is a lot of scrolling when I can't just hit the T key to jump down to the Ts.

Hope all this makes sense it is kinda difficult to describe in written form...

One other request to help cut down on the amount of scrolling I do every week when entering books into the Add Comics Automatically > New Releases function.

Coluldn't you add a new radio button to the extant one (All Series, Only My Series, Only My Publishers) that would allow me to display a list of books by week of release (By Release Date)? Selecting this option would fill the top box on this page with a list of release dates that you could select from to display the books released on that date in the lower pane.

Yes, this is very similar to the existing function of selecting All Series in the top pane, but it just gives you SOOO much to scroll through; more than twice what you would see if you could pick a single release date. It would certainly cut down on a lot of scrolling for users like me who enter their new items every week when they get their new books...

I think you already post a list of new releases each week on the Web site anyway, so I would think you could just operate from that list...

Most of the titles with "The" are because the indicia lists it as an official part of the title. Yes, there are incorrect instances where it appears, but since the title has included it for a long time, we just leave it as is. You can delete it from your local database and keep the series linked to the online database so you don't have to see it on your end.

Hmmm... I think you have missed the point of my request. I don't want to have to jump up and down in the list of new releases when I'm adding books. I'd rather scroll straight down the list. I don't know why you would be entering books exactly as they are in the indica when Diamond Comics Distributors does not do so when they list their new releases for the week. Neither do publishers add the leading "the" when referring to books in their own release lists and on their company Web sites. When you look up The Amazing Spider-Man in the Overstreet Price Guide, do you look under A for Amazing or under T for the?

If people (including distributors and publishers) refer to these books without the leading "the" it just makes sense for this software to do so as well.

Even if you leave the leading "the" in the database itself, it would sure be easier for me to add my books from the new releases page if on that page at least they were in an alphabetical order that agreed with every other list of comics I look at and use.