What's new in CLZ Games for iOS? (page 2)

New:

• Added in-app getting started tips for new users (tap “dismiss” to dismiss)

Fixed:

• Fixed: adding items did not work for users that were not logged in

In this update, we try to tackle a problem that we often see in our support system:

Users changing phones without updating their CLZ Cloud first. Or even worse, without even having a CLZ Account yet.
Which of course cause data loss (and a lot of sadness).

So in this version, we are trying to create more awareness of:

1. The importance of creating a CLZ Account, so that you can Sync with CLZ Cloud.
2. The importance of keeping your CLZ Cloud up-to-date by actually Syncing with CLZ Cloud.

New Sync button in main screen

When not in sync with CLZ Cloud, a new Sync button will appear on the main screen, above the Add button. This way you will always know if there are still items to sync up to CLZ Cloud or down from CLZ Cloud (even when you use auto-sync).

(Don’t like this button? In the Settings screen, switch OFF the setting that says “Show on-screen sync button”)

New “Sync with Cloud!” bar when not logged in

When using the app while not logged in to a CLZ Account, a new bar will appear at the bottom of the main screen that says “Sync to CLZ Cloud for an online backup”.
Hopefully that will help prevent future data loss.

(Don’t like this bar? In the Settings screen, switch OFF the setting that says “Show backup suggestion bar”)

New 5-game “Demo Mode” for new users

For new users who just downloaded the app, we introduced a new “Demo Mode” that lets you add 5 games before committing to the actual 7-day free trial subscription.

Fixed on Android:

• Edit Comic: When you’ve edited something, and you tapped “Next”, it would skip an item.

Fixed:

• When using multi-level folders, the folder panel search text would sometimes copy over to the next folder (and not be remembered when going back)
• After syncing, the main screen did not always refresh
• A crash could occur when entering Selection Mode in Card View if no cards were available
• A crash could occur when selecting folders
• When switching between collection statuses while in multi-level folders, the app could show a wrong selection of items
• The app crashed on devices with iOS13
• iPad: The folder panel search did not have an “X” to clear the search

Fixed:

• Card View: titles were sometimes displayed wrong.
• Fixed a couple of folder labels that were displayed wrongly at the top.
• iPad: made the switching between folders appear more smooth.
• iPad: breadcrumb wasn’t always displayed correctly when backing out of a folder.

A huge update for your CLZ Games mobile app today, which introduces a powerful feature for browsing and filtering your game collection: using multiple levels of folders.

Previously, it was only possible to use one level, so either Platform folders OR Genre folders OR Completeness folders OR Location folders, etc… But starting with this version, you can use nested folders, so for instance, use Platform folders, then within each platform folder have Genre folders.

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Yesterday, Youtuber Mystic (over 700 thousand subscribers) featured our CLZ Games app in a video where he is cataloging his games and checking their values.

Changed:

• Improved messaging for subscription status

Fixed and improved:

• ISBN Barcode scanning on iPhone 14 Pro is now FIXED (by using macro lens)
• ISBN Barcode scanning on iPhone 13 Pro now also uses macro lens
• Collection Status colors now also visible in Card View

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

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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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Initially, when we created the mobile apps, we deliberately decided to leave out the back cover images, for performance, storage and bandwidth reasons. But with today’s fast internet speeds and fast devices with large storage.. it is time to change our minds!
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In this update, no new features, just a nice improvement that makes existing functionality a bit better.

All actions in the app that can take a bit longer are now showing a nice progress bar!
This gives you some idea how long the action will take.
Also, the new Cancel button lets you stop actions, e.g. if you see it will take too long to do at this time.

The new progress bars are now shown when:

• Adding multiple games
• Editing multiple games
• Removing multiple games
• Updating from Core
• Updating PriceCharting Values

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

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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A huge 7.0 update for your CLZ Games app is now available, with new features and lots of improvements to existing functionality. All in one go and all based on your feedback!

New in version 7 today:

• Use barcode scanner to search your own database
• New Collection Status: Sold
• New Collection Status icons and colors
• Improved Add Games screen: enlarge thumbs, new beeps, num pad for barcode entry
• New: after Updating Values and closing the report, you can now re-open the report
• New Favorites section in Manage Pick List screen
• New setting to enable/disable showing trailers in the game details
• The quantity field now shows in the list entries (when not “1”)

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Now available in the App Store, version 6.6 for CLZ Games. In this update, we finally bring the Submit to Core feature to the mobile app, so that you can help improve the Core online game database, by submitting your corrections.
Also new in this update: Select Mode is now easier to activate and the Action menu has a new look.

Enjoy!

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It’s been a while since the last CLZ Games update, as our entire mobile team has been working on a big update of our CLZ Music app (the one for CDs and vinyl records).

But we’re back at it for the other CLZ mobile apps, with 4 new features in one go!

• a new “Duplicate Game” tool, for making a full copy an existing game in your database.
• a new “Clear Cloud” button in the Sync screen, for resetting your CLZ Cloud
• a new “Shake to Shuffle” feature, for selecting a random game
• a new Links tab in the Edit Game screen, for adding web-links to your game entries

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New:

• Image View: Sadly not everyone likes the new flexible “full cover wall” layout. So we have now made it optional. Tap the button to the left of the size slider to switch between the new “Flex Layout” and old “Grid layout”.

Fixed:

• iOS10: iPad: Images view would crash the app
• iOS10: iPad: After tapping an album and tapping back, the list could disappear

Instead of adding more new features, we decided to take a few weeks to work on the look and feel of the app.
In this 6.4 update, we improved the look and layout of the game list and of the game details pages, in both the main screen and the Add screen preview.
On top of that, we finally acted upon a common request from our users: you can now change the size of the thumbnails in the Images View.

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Fixed:

• Opening Statistics could crash the app
• Main Screen: Collection status filter: Could default to “For Sale” when it was previously set to “On Wish List”
• Main screen: Some controls were missing from the top bar on iOS 9/10 devices
• “Want” summary at the top disappeared from the list of comics

A big update for your CLZ app today. Instead of bringing one big new feature, we decided to work on multiple areas that could be improved, all of them based on the feedback we received from you all. Thanks for that!

Collection Status filter

The 2nd button from the top right (next to the search button) is the Collection Status filter. Previously, it allowed you to filter by All, Collection or Wish List, but with this update, we added all collection status option there as filters, including On order and For Sale.

Also, the button will now be highlighted in yellow when a filter is active, that is, when it is set to anything other than “All”.

Re-designed toolbars at the top

The toolbars at the top have been re-designed, mainly to make the interactive elements stand out more as actual “buttons”.

(Especially the folder icon on the left was something that was often overlooked as something you could tap on. Hopefully this re-design will help to let more users find the most powerful feature of the app 🙂 )

New sort and display options in Settings

• Ignore Sort Titles when sorting by Title
• Show Sort Titles instead of Titles

Improved Statistics screen

The Statistics screen has been updated with:

• More database totals at the top (purchase price, current value)
• More charts (by Year, by Genre, by Completeness, by Completed, Value by Completeness)
• A new: “tap to show all” option to enlarge charts and see ALL entries

A big update for your CLZ Games app!
This time we added a new feature that will save you lots of time:

New Pre-fill screen that pops up when adding games

When adding a game to your database using the Add Games screen, it will now pop-up a new screen called “Pre-fill game details, letting you set various fields right then and there.

Fields available in the Pre-fill screen:

• Completeness (Loose / CIB / New)
• Box / Manual
• Location
• Owner
• Purchase Date
• Purchase Store
• Purchase Price
• Quantity
• Tags

No more need to edit your added games afterwards!

(BTW: of course, using the new Pre-fill screen is optional. If you don’t want to use it, just uncheck the “Show Pre-fill screen” toggle at thet bottom. You can always re-enable it through the app’s Settings screen.)

Also new:

• All Collection Status options are now available under the Add button in the Add Screen.
• New look and layout of Field Defaults screen.

Since we introduced the Update Values from PriceCharting feature, one of the most common questions we received at customer support has been:

After I update the values for my games, is there any way I can see which games have been updated?

So, after several years of having to say “sorry, no that is not possible”, we figured, let’s make it possible.

And of course, we went way beyond just showing which games have been updated. As of today, after you run Update Values, you will get a nice “Updated Values” report, showing you:

• which games have been updated from PriceCharting
• their previous values and the new values
• the value change, in green when increased, in red when decreased
• total value changes for the updated games and for your entire collection

Fixed:

• The sorting was off when sorting on the ‘Value’ and ‘Purchase Price’ fields
• The sorting was off for some values games in the statistics screen
• Certain games could break the layout of the edit screen