News: all updates for our software and apps (page 19)

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

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!

The releases for May 2022:

• CLZ mobile apps: new Card View in main screen (and more)
• CLZ Comics: List View is back in the Add Comics screen
• 5 maintenance builds for all 5 Collector programs for Windows

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In today’s update, no big new features. Instead, we decided to spend some time fixing a lot of outstanding issues. While we were at it, we also implemented some small tweaks requested by users. Here’s what’s tweaked and fixed:

Tweaks:

• Year folders now sort from most recent year to older
• Transfer Field Data: It is now possible to transfer crew to the Notes field
• Transfer Field Data: It is now possible to transfer data to the Extra Features field

Fixed:

• Link Screen: Fixed various “Access Violation” errors
• Edit Screen: File paths for missing cover images weren’t showing
• Main Screen: filtering on Collection Status “Sold” didn’t show correct filter text in the bottom of the screen
• Edit in List: Fields could be cleared when modifying the column fields during editing in list
• Edit in List: Fixed some problems with editing price/value fields

In today’s update, no big new features. Instead, we decided to spend some time fixing a lot of outstanding issues. While we were at it, we also implemented some small tweaks requested by users. Here’s what’s tweaked and fixed:

Tweaks:

• Year folders now sort from most recent year to older
• Transfer Field Data: It is now possible to transfer artists to the Notes field

Fixes:

• Link Screen: Fixed various “Access Violation” errors
• Edit Screen: File paths for missing cover images weren’t showing
• Main Screen: filtering on Collection Status “Sold” didn’t show correct filter text in the bottom of the screen
• Images View: Mouse-over text could show wrong album information
• Pre-fill: Packaging field wasn’t used when adding albums from files
• Update from Core could clear track artists if they were the same as the album artist
• Edit in List: Fields could be cleared when modifying the column fields during editing in list
• Edit in List: Fixed some problems with editing price/value fields

In today’s update, no big new features. Instead, we decided to spend some time fixing a lot of outstanding issues. While we were at it, we also implemented some small tweaks requested by users. Here’s what’s tweaked and fixed:

Tweaks:

• Year folders now sort from most recent year to older
• Transfer Field Data: It is now possible to transfer creators to the Notes field

Fixes:

• Edit Character screen: Some data could appear in a huge font (DPI problems)
• Linking an issue inside a TPB entry wasn’t working sometimes (it could remain showing as unlinked)
• Adding an issue to a TPB entry always showed the “Add to Wish List” button instead of just an Add button
• You can now add CLZSeriesID as a column (moet dit mentioned?)
• Manage Pick Lists: counters for creators were doubling up every time a creator was used
• Add Comics: an Access Violation error could occur when expanding multiple series results quickly
• Sorting on “Last Bagged/Board Date” wasn’t working
• Sorting on “Sold Date” wasn’t working
• Edit in List: Fields could be cleared when modifying the column fields during editing in list
• Edit in List: Fixed some problems with editing price/value fields

In today’s update, no big new features. Instead, we decided to spend some time fixing a lot of outstanding issues. While we were at it, we also implemented some small tweaks requested by users. Here’s what’s tweaked and fixed:

Tweaks:

• Year folders now sort from most recent year to older
• Transfer Field Data: It is now possible to transfer credits to the Notes field

Fixes:

• Link Screen: Fixed various “Access Violation” errors
• Edit Screen: File paths for missing cover images weren’t showing
• Main Screen: filtering on Collection Status “Sold” didn’t show correct filter text in the bottom of the screen
• Edit Multiple on the “Value: Locked” field wasn’t working
• Filtering on the “Value: Locked” field wasn’t working
• Link Games: When using “Find Manually” the platform was ignored
• Add Games: The link to PriceCharting wasn’t working
• Add Games: Value wasn’t set when adding games
• Edit in List: Fields could be cleared when modifying the column fields during editing in list
• Edit in List: Fixed some problems with editing price/value fields

In today’s update, no big new features. Instead, we decided to spend some time fixing a lot of outstanding issues. While we were at it, we also implemented some small tweaks requested by users. Here’s what’s tweaked and fixed:

Tweaks:

• Year folders now sort from most recent year to older
• Transfer Field Data: It is now possible to transfer authors to the Notes field

Fixes:

• Link Screen: Fixed various “Access Violation” errors
• Edit Screen: File paths for missing cover images weren’t showing
• Main Screen: filtering on Collection Status “Sold” didn’t show correct filter text in the bottom of the screen
• Edit in List: Fields could be cleared when modifying the column fields during editing in list
• Edit in List: Fixed some problems with editing price/value fields
• Manage Pick Lists: Author list: sorting on “Real Name” column was taking too long

Fixed:

• iPad only: Fixed a crash in the add screen
• iPad only: New list view was missing a blue highlight for selecting comics
• Add Screen: Selecting a comic to preview it also already checkboxed it for adding

Fixed:

• Card View would crash the app if the Show Coverdates was switched on and a cover date was missing

Another big update for your CLZ Comics app, in which we introduce a new view for your comic collection. But there’s more:

• Main screen:
  • New “Card View”
  • Selecting comics now also possible in Card View and Images View
  • Floating “Add Comics” button (the big blue “+”) now auto-hides
• Add Comics screen:
  • List View is back!
  • “Add Manually” is back!

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Another big update for your CLZ Games app, in which we introduce a new view for your game collection. But there’s more:

• New “Card View”
• Selecting games now also possible in Card View and Images View
• Floating “Add Games” button (the big blue “+”) now auto-hides

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Another big update for your CLZ Music app, in which we introduce a new view for your music collection. But there’s more:

• New “Card View”
• Selecting albums now also possible in Card View and Images View
• Floating “Add Albums” button (the big blue “+”) now auto-hides

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Another big update for your CLZ Books app, in which we introduce a new view for your book collection. But there’s more:

• New “Card View”
• Selecting books now also possible in Card View and Images View
• Floating “Add Books” button (the big blue “+”) now auto-hides

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Another big update for your CLZ Movies app, in which we introduce a new view for your movie collection. But there’s more:

• New “Card View”
• Selecting movies now also possible in Card View and Images View
• Floating “Add Movies” button (the big blue “+”) now auto-hides

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This is CLZ Alwin, bringing you the CLZ News for April 2022!

Strangely enough, only ONE new release this month (CLZ Comics 7.6). Well, not that strange really, as part of the team is working on big back-end projects and the rest on upcoming May releases.

So today’s newsletter is all about “What’s Cooking at the CLZ HQ?”:

• Now live:
  • CLZ Comics 7.6: Bigger cover images in Add Comics screen
• What’s Cooking?
  • A new partner for comic values!
  • New “Card View” for all CLZ mobile apps
  • Faster searches with our new search engine servers
  • Multiple languages for the Connect web-based software!

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Today, two fixes for the new Add Comics screen and small fix for the details panel on iPad:

• Slow opening of issue list for a series
  Opening a series to go to its issue list could cause the app to “freeze” for a while, depending on the number of issues in the series AND the number of comics in your database.

  Please note that this was not related to the loading of the large images. Instead, it was just a stupid bug that was introduced during the rewrite of this screen, related to the “in collection highlighting”.

  You will find that all series now open instantly, even with the large images 🙂

• Pull List showed all issues of a series
  When opening a series on the pull list, it incorrectly showed all issues for the series, where as it should of course show recent and future issues only.

• Comic details on iPad: visibility of backdrop
  A small fix/tweak for the comic details panel on iPad, to make the backdrop more visible

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 many 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
• New look or series search results and series search “suggestions box”
• Close the Add Comics screen with “X” top left, no more “double back button” confusion

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Fixed:

• Various “Access Violation” errors fixed in the Link Comics screen
• Edit Screen: File paths for missing cover images weren’t showing
• Main Screen: filtering on Collection Status “Sold” didn’t show correct filter text in the bottom of the screen

Fixed:

• Picking a suggestion from the Quick Search would sometimes show the previous shown album
• Box Sets without covers wouldn’t show up in the details panel

Fixed:

• Picking a suggestion from the Quick Search would sometimes show the previous shown album

Fixed:

• Picking a suggestion from the Quick Search would sometimes show the previous shown album

Fixed:

• Picking a suggestion from the Quick Search would sometimes show the previous shown album
• Box Sets without covers wouldn’t show up in the details panel

Fixed:

• Crash when adding a comic while the Purchase Price field was active in the Pre-Fill screen

Fixed:

• Templates: Tapping the cover to zoom in on it often caused the cover to flip to the back cover
• Adding: Adding an item to a different collection status could cause Pre-fill fields to clear in the existing entry

Fixed:

• Templates: Tapping the cover to zoom in on it often caused the cover to flip to the back cover
• Adding an item to a different collection status caused Pre-fill fields to clear in the existing entry
• Sorting: When sorting by cover price, comics without a cover price would show “Cover: null” in the list