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Another week, another CLZ Comics update!

Still no version 8.0 yet though, as we are saving that major version number for the upcoming huge CovrPrice update.

Today’s update is version 7.11, introducing a configurable Update from Core tool.

In today’s update for your Comic Connect software, one new feature and some further tweaks to the new Vertical Card View (based on your feedback):

Relink Core Variant: easily link your local entry to a different variant in Core
Improved Vertical Card View: now including Grade/Value and Collection Status

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Fixed:

Card view texts had the wrong color in certain situations
App could freeze in Series list when sorting on issue count

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Nope, we won’t stop improving this app 🙂 Here’s version 7.10 already, with one new feature and one improvement requested by you all:

Relink Core Variant: easily link your local entry to a different variant in Core
Improved Card View: now including Grade/Value and Collection Status

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card view core key linking variant

CLZ Alwin here, with the CLZ Newsletter for July 2022.

A large part of the CLZ team is currently preparing for the upcoming collaboration with CovrPrice for comic values. The developers are working on the apps, the software and our server side code, while the content managers are getting our Core for comics fully linked up with the CovrPrice database. We are planning to do a more detailed update on this project soon.

Still, with all that going on, we have been able to do quite a few other projects, mainly for the mobile and web-based software. These are our July 2022 releases:

For the CLZ mobile apps:
- CLZ Games 7.5: More value data from PriceCharting
- CLZ Comics v7.9: Filter your Series list by Completed status
- Coming up, CLZ Comics 7.10: ReLink Core Variant / Improved Card View
For the Connect web-based software:
- New collection view “Vertical Cards”
- Game Connect: More value data from PriceCharting
- Comic Connect: Bigger cover images in Add Comics screen
- Comic Connect: Improved Pull List and new “Discover” mode!

Based on lots of feedback from members of the CLZ Comics group on Facebook, we decided to completely re-design and rewrite the Pull List feature.

This re-designed Pull List tool was already released for the CLZ Comics mobile app a few weeks ago. Today, the new design has also been released for your Comic Connect software, expanding it into a fully flexible way to browse recent and upcoming comic releases.

Here’s an overview of all the improvements:

View releases per week
List releases in series folders or as one “flat list”
New “My Series” tab: view releases for your existing series
New “Discover” tab: browse ALL recent and upcoming releases!
Easier adding of series to your Pull List
Easily open the full issue list for any series

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add comics key pull list

BBy popular request, we have enhanced our support for getting values from PriceCharting.com! And there’s more…

Here’s what’s new in today’s CLZ Games 7.5 update:

Support for the separate Box Only and Manual Only values
Support for the Graded values

(“Graded” is now an extra Completeness option)
More hardware related stats and charts in the Statistics screen
You can now also set Tags for Hardware items

By popular request, we have enhanced our support for getting values from PriceCharting.com!

Support for the separate Box Only and Manual Only values
Support for the Graded values (“Graded” is now an extra Completeness option)

For this update, the main goal was to make the cover images in the Add Comics screen bigger, to make it easier to find the issue or variant that you own.

However, while working on that, we ran into some other things that could be improved, so we figured why not? So in the end, it turned out be a serious overhaul of the Add Comics screen 🙂

Here’s an overview of all the improvements:

Bigger cover images in the Issue List
The Issue List for a series now opens in a separate page
Preview Page now also shows a bigger cover image
And finally: the Add Comics screen is now a lot bigger!

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add comics big covers card view key

Recently introduced in the CLZ mobile apps and instantly very popular, so now available in all five Connect flavors too: the Card View.
(And… because Connect already had a view called “Card View”, we renamed the old view to “Horizontal Cards” and named the new one “Vertical Cards” here.)

Here’s how to switch to new “Vertical Cards” view: on the toolbar above your collection list, click the 2nd button from the left, called “Vertical Cards”.

Check out the screenshots below:

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card view key

Another nice update for your CLZ Comics app, with 2 new features that were requested by you all:

Filter your Series list by “Completed” status
New Setting for Series Images: Earliest Issue or Latest Issue

Filter your Series list by “Completed” status

This has been a recurring request since we introduced the ability to mark series as “Completed”. So we made it happen.
Just tap the checklist icon at the top and choose “Show completed” to only show all series that have been marked as Completed.

Note that the Series Completed flag is a manual flag. You decide if a series is completed or not. You can either set that flag in the Edit Series screen (e.g. from Manage Pick Lists) or just select multiple series in the series list, then choose “Mark as Completed” from the Action button menu.

New Setting for Series Images: Earliest Issue or Latest Issue

In your series list, the app has always shown the cover image of the latest issue for that series that you own. But some users indicated that they would prefer it to use the first or earliest issue of the series, because in most cases that is a more recognizable issue.

So we made it into a setting!

Other changes:

Next to the features above, we also added 2 other things, 1 requested (or demanded) by Apple, and 1 requested by the CLZ support guys and gal 🙂

Edit Series screen: modify the CLZ Series ID:
This is sometimes necessary when your series entry is linked to the wrong Core Series. In general: only do this when instructed by CLZ support staff.
New “Delete my CLZ Account” option under Settings (iOS only):
A new requirement by Apple, a way to to delete your account from the app itself. If you value your app, subscription and your cloud data, do NOT press this button!!! 🙂

Fixed for iOS:

New in the Settings screen, as required by Apple: a “Delete my CLZ Account” button.
Pull List: My Series now only works on your currently selected collection, instead of all collections
Small fixes to the most valuable comics statistic

Fixed for Android:

After tapping on a quick search series result, the keyboard wouldn’t automatically hide
Small fixes to the most valuable comics statistic

key manage pick lists series completed setting

Last day of June, so here’s my June 2022 edition of the CLZ News.
This month, big news about our new collaboration with CovrPrice.com for comic values. Also, the first of many Connect updates and finally, 2 big updates for the CLZ mobile apps for movies and comics.

These are the topics for today:

CLZ is going to work with CovrPrice for comic values! ETA: Sept 2022
CLZ Comics v7.8: Improved Pull List and new “Discover” mode!
CLZ Movies v7.5: New report screen after Updating IMDb Ratings/Votes
Connect: Lots of new features and tweaks in one go!
Coming up for the Connect web-based software

A big update for your Connect software today, with several cool new features and some smaller tweaks, all in one go:

Easily add cover images by pasting into the Edit Screen’s Covers tab
New Month and Date folder options for all date fields
Improved Update from Core tool
“Move to Other Collection” now possible from details panel toolbar

Most of you are probably diligently updating your IMDb Ratings and Votes on a regular basis. After all, if you are in any way interested in IMDb ratings, it is important to always keep those up-to-date.

However, after running the “Update IMDb Ratings/Votes” and getting the “254 movies updated” message, have you ever wondered

“WHICH movies have been updated and WHAT was the change?”.

Well, not anymore, because with today’s update we are answering that question!

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imdb key ratings votes

Based on lots of feedback from members of the CLZ Comics group on Facebook, we decided to completely re-design and rewrite the Pull List feature. With this update, the Pull List tab in the Add Comics screen has been expanded into a fully flexible way to browse recent and upcoming comic releases.

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key pull list

Great news for all users of our comic cataloging tools:
We can finally reveal which 3rd party we are going to work with for the upcoming solutions for comic values!
We are proud and excited to announce that our new partner for comic values is….:

>> COVRPRICE !!!

Yes, CLZ and COVRPRICE are going to work together, to provide you with the internet’s most reliable and up-to-date comic values, right there in your favorite comic cataloging tool!

This also means we can finally answer your most common questions:

Will it only provide values for graded comics or for raw comics too?
What will it cost?
ETA???

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comic values covrprice

Yesterday’s build introduced a couple of small problems which some of you reported to us, so today we’re fixing those!

Fixed:

Link Screen: Trying to link a movie manually would present an “add” button
Edit in List: Fields could (still) be cleared when modifying the set of column fields during editing in list

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CLZ Alwin here, with the May 2022 edition of the CLZ News.
This month, more updates for the mobile apps (as always) and 5 big maintenance builds for the Windows software. I know it has been a bit quiet on the Connect end, but that is caused by the big translation project we are doing there. We will be swinging back to big feature updates for Connect soon!