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v7.1: Improved Pre-fill screen: choose your own fields!

February 14th, 2022

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.

User-configurable Pre-fill screen: choose your own fields

Out of the box, the new Pre-fill screen will start with the fields that have always been on the screen: Location, Owner, Purchase Date/Store/Price, Quantity and Tags.
But now, you can remove and add fields to fit *your* needs!

To get started: In the Pre-fill screen, on the bottom right, tap the little “gears” icon. This will open a screen called “Select Pre-fill Fields”. There, tap the heart or star icons to select and unselect fields.

TIP: use the drag icons to change the order of the Current fields! Some fields take half the screen width, other fields are full width. So you may want to play around with the order of fields to get the most “compact” layout.

Pre-fill: new for personal Date fields: Use “Today”

New, in the Pre-fill screen: “Set Today” toggles for the Purchase Date and Viewing Date.
If you add one of these fields to your Pre-fill screen, they will automatically show an extra “Set Today” toggle on the right of the input box, which will always automatically set the date to today’s date. Super useful if you are always adding your new movies on the same day you purchase them!

The Pre-fill screen is now also used to set field defaults

The functionality of the Field Defaults screen and the Pre-fill screen has always been comparable, so we figured it was the time to merge the two. The old Field Default screen has now been ditched and you can now set your field defaults with the Pre-fill screen, through the new menu option “Pre-fill Settings”.
The main advantage: you can now set field defaults for any field you want 🙂

NOTE: if you disable the Pre-fill screen, so that it does not show when adding, then you can use the “Pre-fill fields even when screen not shown setting to use the chosen values as field defaults.

New sorting and folder options

By popular request you can now sort in two new ways so you can quickly your last added or modified albums. Also new, group all albums by the year you added them to your collection:

  • “Order of Entry” sort option is now called “Date Added”
  • New sort option: Date Modified
  • New folder option: Added Year

Fixed:

iOS:

  • Folders: Edition Release Year wasn’t working
  • List: More than x formats didn’t fit and caused layout issues

Android:

  • Add Movies: The Add button sometimes didn’t work
  • Update from Core: The device could go to sleep, canceling the update
  • A crash could occur when syncing on a device with a foldable screen

Recent changes

v9.4: Several improvements and fixes September 27th, 2024 v9.3.2 New “search for…” suggestions when adding movies by title August 7th, 2024 v9.2: CLZ Movies is now free to use up to 100 movies May 31st, 2024 v9.0: Improved Add by Title screen, Collection tabs and much more! February 2nd, 2024 v8.5: Easier access to Manage Pick Lists tool October 25th, 2023 v8.4: Pre-fill screen: Orange highlights and a Clear button October 16th, 2023 v8.2: New Sync button on main screen September 6th, 2023 v8.1: Modify the Cast and Crew lists of your movie entries! July 20th, 2023 v8.0: Use multiple folder levels May 17th, 2023 v7.5: New report screen after Updating IMDb Ratings/Votes June 24th, 2022 v7.4 New “Card View” May 11th, 2022 v7.3: Back Cover images! March 29th, 2022 v7.2: Progress Bars and Cancel buttons! March 13th, 2022 v7.1: Improved Pre-fill screen: choose your own fields! February 14th, 2022 v7.0: New features and lots of improvements December 2nd, 2021 v6.6 Submit to Core / New Select Mode and action menu September 22nd, 2021 v6.5: Six new features! September 9th, 2021 v6.4 New look for movie list, cover view & movie details May 23rd, 2021 v6.3 Automatic Audience Ratings from IMDb March 5th, 2021 v6.2: Various improvements February 22nd, 2021 v6.1.1: New: Pre-fill fields while adding movies December 28th, 2020 v6.0: Edit multiple, more compact Edit screen, crop/rotate images September 11th, 2020 Sneak Preview: version 6.0 of all 5 CLZ mobile apps! July 21st, 2020 v5.5 New folder option for Actors May 19th, 2020 v5.4 Faster CLZ Cloud syncing! March 18th, 2020