Software and app updates released in 2022 (page 6)

Fixed:

• Adding albums from music files or importing a file would cause albums to enter the database without a collection status
• Fields in the Pre-fill screen could look bad on screens with high DPI
• “Collection Status: Sold” was missing from various places
• Setting an item to Collection Status: Sold could cause an access violation

Another big update for your Comic Collector software already. Today, version 22.2 brings you 4 cool new features:

• User-configurable Pre-fill screen: choose your own fields
• More configuration settings for Add / Update from Core
• An easier and quicker way of marking Series as Completed
• Support for WebP images

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This is CLZ Alwin, with the Feb 2022 edition of the CLZ Newsletter. And I am writing this one from the CLZ HQ, not from home! Yes, the improving covid situation in the Netherlands means we are back at the office!

The return to our HQ did not exactly go as planned though… On Monday Feb 21, we arrived at the office to find part of the ceiling had collapsed. The storms over Amsterdam had dislodged some of the roof tiles, causing lots of rainwater on top of the ceiling.
The result, one dead Mac (an old one, phew), 2 dead keyboards, 2 dead magic mice, and some DVDs with water damage. Luckily our main computers were safe and dry.

More pictures of the mess can be found on our blog here. In the meantime, the roof tiles have been fixed. We still have a hole in the ceiling though.

But, even with the bad start, it is great to be back at the office! For now, Sytske, AJ and I are here full-time. The rest of the team is joining us at the office 2 or 3 days each week, working from home on the other days.

As for our projects, it’s been all about the user-configurable Pre-fill screens the past 2 months. But with that feature now being released for all products, we’re getting ready to move on to other cool stuff.

The topics today:

• Improved Pre-fill screen: choose your own fields!
• Music Collector 22: Configurable Pre-fill & Update from Core + WebP support
• CLZ Comics 7.3: Mark Multiple Series as Completed in one go!
• All CLZ apps: Sort by Date Added, Date Modified
• Coming up for the CLZ mobile apps: Progress Bars and Back Covers!

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Fixed:

• Crash when opening the Manage Pick Lists screen
• Edit Album: Tracks were cleared when (re-)scanning a CD

It’s been a few months since the last Music Collector update, but behind the scenes we have of course been preparing for a big v22 update! And today, it is finally ready for release, with 3 cool new features:

• User-configurable Pre-fill screen: choose your own fields
• User-configurable Add / Update from Core
• Support for WebP images
• New collection status “Sold” and new collection status icons and colors

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Yes, the improving covid situation in the Netherlands means we are back at the office!

The return to the office did not exactly go as planned though… Today, we arrived at the office to find part of the ceiling had collapsed. The storms over Amsterdam had dislodged some of the roof tiles, causing lots of rainwater on top of the ceiling.
The result, one dead Mac (an old one, phew), 2 dead keyboards, 2 dead magic mice, and some DVDs with water damage. Luckily our main computers were safe and dry.

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Improvements:

• New: Sort by Date Modified
• New: Sort by Date Added (previously called “Order of Entry”)
• New: use Added Year as your folder field
• Improved display of sort values in bottom right corner of list cells

Improvements:

• New: Sort by Date Modified
• New: Sort by Date Added (previously called “Order of Entry”)
• New: use Added Year as your folder field
• Improved display of sort values in bottom right corner of list cells

Fixed:

• Add Games: The Add button sometimes didn’t work

Improvements:

• New: Sort by Date Modified
• New: Sort by Date Added (previously called “Order of Entry”)
• New: use Added Year as your folder field
• Improved display of sort values in bottom right corner of list cells

Improvements:

• New: Sort by Date Modified
• New: Sort by Date Added (previously called “Order of Entry”)
• New: use Added Year as your folder field
• Improved display of sort values in bottom right corner of list cells

Fixed:

• Add Books: The Add button sometimes didn’t work

We’re on a roll! Today marks the release of CLZ Comics 7.3, with an easier and quicker way of marking Series as Completed.

We introduced the “Completed” toggle back in November 2021. It is used to indicate that a Series is “completed”. Until now, the toggle could only be set one series at a time, using the Edit Series screen.

Today, by popular request, we’re introducing a way to mark multiple Series as Completed in one go! Just select multiple series in the Series list, then choose “Mark as Completed” from the Action button menu.

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One of the most popular features we added to the CLZ Movies app in the past few years is the Pre-fill screen. You know, the screen that pops up when adding new movies from Core and lets you “pre-fill” some fields for the new additions, right there and then. Without having to go back and edit the entries afterwards. A big time-saver for most users.

The set of fields that is available on the Pre-fill screen has always been fixed, limited to Location, Owner, Purchase Date/Store/Price, Quantity and Tags.

However, after the release of this feature, we instantly started getting requests for more fields to be added to the Pre-fill screen. Which makes sense, I mean, if you always fill in a field that is not on the Pre-fill screen, you would have to “edit after adding” anyway, rendering the entire Pre-fill screen useless…

So today we are taking the Pre-fill feature to the next level by making the screen completely user-configurable. That is, to allow you to choose your own Pre-fill fields!

And while we were at it, we made some other related improvements. Here’s what’s new in version 7.1:

• User-configurable Pre-fill screen: choose your own fields
• Pre-fill: new for personal Date fields: Use “Today”
• The Pre-fill screen is now also used to set field defaults
• New sorting and folder options
• Several fixes.

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One of the most popular features we added to the CLZ Music app in the past few years is the Pre-fill screen. You know, the screen that pops up when adding new albums from Core and lets you “pre-fill” some fields for the new additions, right there and then. Without having to go back and edit the entries afterwards. A big time-saver for most users.

The set of fields that is available on the Pre-fill screen has always been fixed, limited to Location, Owner, Purchase Date/Store/Price, Quantity and Tags.

However, after the release of this feature, we instantly started getting requests for more fields to be added to the Pre-fill screen. Which makes sense, I mean, if you always fill in a field that is not on the Pre-fill screen, you would have to “edit after adding” anyway, rendering the entire Pre-fill screen useless…

So today we are taking the Pre-fill feature to the next level by making the screen completely user-configurable. That is, to allow you to choose your own Pre-fill fields!

And while we were at it, we made some other related improvements. Here’s what’s new in version 7.1:

• User-configurable Pre-fill screen: choose your own fields
• Pre-fill: new for Purchase Date: Use “Today”
• The Pre-fill screen is now also used to set field defaults
• New sorting and folder options

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One of the most popular features we added to the CLZ Games app in the past few years is the Pre-fill screen. You know, the screen that pops up when adding new games from Core and lets you “pre-fill” some fields for the new additions, right there and then. Without having to go back and edit the entries afterwards. A big time-saver for most users.

The set of fields that is available on the Pre-fill screen has always been fixed, limited to Completeness, Location, Owner, Purchase Date/Store/Price, Quantity and Tags.

However, after the release of this feature, we instantly started getting requests for more fields to be added to the Pre-fill screen. Which makes sense, I mean, if you always fill in a field that is not on the Pre-fill screen, you would have to “edit after adding” anyway, rendering the entire Pre-fill screen useless…

So today we are taking the Pre-fill feature to the next level by making the screen completely user-configurable. That is, to allow you to choose your own Pre-fill fields!

And while we were at it, we made some other related improvements. Here’s what’s new in version 7.1:

• User-configurable Pre-fill screen: choose your own fields
• Pre-fill: new for personal Date fields: Use “Today”
• The Pre-fill screen is now also used to set field defaults

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Fixed:

• Crash when adding comics with the Pre-fill screen DISABLED
• When using “Fill with Cover Price minus Discount” to set the Purchase Price, the discounted price was not calculated correctly

Fixed:

• Values in pre-fill screen weren’t set the first time

One of the most popular features we added to the CLZ Comics app in the past few years is the Pre-fill screen. You know, the screen that pops up when adding new comics from Core and lets you “pre-fill” some fields for the new additions, right there and then. Without having to go back and edit the entries afterwards. A big time-saver for most users.

The set of fields that is available on the Pre-fill screen has always been fixed, limited to Storage Box, Owner, Purchase Date/Store/Price, Quantity, Grade, Grading Company and Tags.

However, after the release of this feature, we instantly started getting requests for more fields to be added to the Pre-fill screen. Which makes sense, I mean, if you always fill in a field that is not on the Pre-fill screen, you would have to “edit after adding” anyway, rendering the entire Pre-fill screen useless…

So today we are taking the Pre-fill feature to the next level by making the screen completely user-configurable. That is, to allow you to choose your own Pre-fill fields!

And while we were at it, we made some other related improvements. Here’s what’s new in version 7.2:

• User-configurable Pre-fill screen: choose your own fields
• Pre-fill: new for personal Date fields: Use “Today”
• Pre-fill: new for Purchase Price: Use “Cover Price” minus your discount percentage.
• The Pre-fill screen is now also used to set field defaults

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CLZ Alwin here, with the Jan 2022 edition of the CLZ Newsletter. This month, more huge updates for our comic cataloging tools and finally, the first update is live with the user configurable Pre-fill screen (CLZ Books)!. Plus, in other news, a nice surprise from our loyal customer M. Night Shyamalan!

The topics today:

• Coolness: M. Night Shyamalan mentions CLZ Movies in an interview!
• For all comic tools: Minor/Major Key distinction + Key Categories
• CLZ Books: Improved Pre-fill screen: choose your own fields!

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One of the most popular features we added to the CLZ Books app in the past few years is the Pre-fill screen. You know, the screen that pops up when adding new books from Core and lets you “pre-fill” some fields for the new additions, right there and then. Without having to go back and edit the entries afterwards. A big time-saver for most users.

The set of fields that is available on the Pre-fill screen has always been fixed, limited to Location, Owner, Purchase Date/Store/Price, Quantity and Tags.

However, after the release of this feature, we instantly started getting requests for more fields to be added to the Pre-fill screen. Which makes sense, I mean, if you always fill in a field that is not on the Pre-fill screen, you would have to “edit after adding” anyway, rendering the entire Pre-fill screen useless…

So today we are taking the Pre-fill feature to the next level by making the screen completely user-configurable. That is, to allow you to choose your own Pre-fill fields!

And while we were at it, we made some other related improvements. Here’s what’s new in version 7.1:

• User-configurable Pre-fill screen: choose your own fields
• Pre-fill: new for Purchase Date and Reading Date: Use “Today”
• The Pre-fill screen is now also used to set field defaults

Read more

The “Automatic key comic info” feature, introduced early November, has proven to be enormously popular… BUT it is also easily THE most controversial feature that we have ever introduced to any of our software titles!
Most users are loving the extra little trivia about their comics. But others are annoyed by too many comics being “key” for reasons that are not important enough in their opinion.

Soo… let’s see if we can improve this feature, so that we can remove most of the annoyance and make it useful for a larger part of our audience.
Today, we introduce the following improvements to the key comics feature:

• Distinction between Minor Keys (blue icon) and Major Keys (yellow icon)
• New “Key Category” field, automatically delivered from Core, e.g. “First appearance”, “Death”, “Cameo appearance”, “Iconic cover”, etc..
• New “Update Key Info” tool in the CLZ Core, that is fully configurable (Minor/Major Keys, Allow Overwrite/Clear). No more need to use Update from Core.
• Key icons now also show in issue lists in Add Comics screen.
• New charts in Statistics screen, for Key Comics and Key Category.

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The “Automatic key comic info” feature, introduced early November, has proven to be enormously popular… BUT it is also easily THE most controversial feature that we have ever introduced to any of our software titles!
Most users are loving the extra little trivia about their comics. But others are annoyed by too many comics being “key” for reasons that are not important enough in their opinion.

Soo… let’s see if we can improve this feature, so that we can remove most of the annoyance and make it useful for a larger part of our audience.
Today, we introduce the following improvements to the key comics feature:

• Distinction between Minor Keys (blue icon) and Major Keys (yellow icon)
• New “Key Category” field, automatically delivered from Core, e.g. “First appearance”, “Death”, “Cameo appearance”, “Iconic cover”, etc..
• New “Update Key Info” tool in the CLZ Core, that is fully configurable (Minor/Major Keys, Allow Overwrite/Clear). No more need to use Update from Core.
• Key icons now also show in issue lists in Add Comics screen.
• New charts in Statistics screen, for Key Comics and Key Category.

Read more

The “Automatic key comic info” feature, introduced early November, has proven to be enormously popular… BUT it is also easily THE most controversial feature that we have ever introduced to any of our software titles!
Most users are loving the extra little trivia about their comics. But others are annoyed by too many comics being “key” for reasons that are not important enough in their opinion.

Soo… let’s see if we can improve this feature, so that we can remove most of the annoyance and make it useful for a larger part of our audience.
Today, we introduce the following improvements to the key comics feature:

• Distinction between Minor Keys (blue icon) and Major Keys (yellow icon).
• New “Key Category” field, automatically delivered from Core, e.g. “First appearance”, “Death”, “Cameo appearance”, “Iconic cover”, etc..
• New “Update Key Info” tool in menu, that is fully configurable (Minor/Major Keys, Allow Overwrite/Clear). No more need to use Update from Core.
• Key icons now also show in issue lists in Add Comics screen.
• New charts in Statistics screen, for Key Comics and Key Category.

Read more

Fixed:

• A crash could occur when opening the Updated PriceCharting Values report