What's new?

New:

• Images popup now also supports “Size Picture to Window without stretching” option
• Quick search: suggestions now also are shown when searching on “Title” field

Fixed:

• Main Screen:
• Quick Search: applying a filter could cause unexpected behaviour
• Images Popup:
  • the status bar wasn’t always showing the right image path when opening
  • .bmp images were not showing
  • only screen shots were showing from the local images
• CueCat scanner wasn’t working properly any more

Quick Search: Search-As-You-Type suggestions

Instantly find and select a particular game in your local database:

• In the Quick Search box, just start typing the first few letters of the title you are looking for.
• While typing, a drop-down list will appear, showing the first five matching games (for most games, it only takes 2 or 3 letters before it shows up).
• Once you see the one you were looking for, use the up/down keys to select it, then hit Enter.
• The game will now be selected in your list, with the details showing in the Details Panel.

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This update introduces an easier way to deal with “Unrecognized Barcodes”.
A new screen that not only helps you to add the game to your app anyway, but also helps your fellow CLZ Games users by instantly adding the missing barcode to the CLZ Core online game database.

Easily add games that come up as “Unrecognized Barcode”:

• In the Add Games screen when a barcode is not recognized, a new “Unrecognized Barcode” screen will appear.
• In this screen:
  1. Just find your game by title (Search-As-You-Type is also active here!)
  2. Then click Add Game.
• This will:
  1. Add the game to YOUR database with full game details and your barcode.
  2. Instantly add the barcode to OUR Core online game database, connected to the game you selected.

Fixed:

• Local game deletes sometimes not synchronized to the CLZ Cloud

Fixed:

• Crashing merge dialog in the manage pick list screen on Android 6.0+ devices
• Facebook sign up button not working
• Reverting of custom uploaded cover when syncing an update
• Crash in the edit screen after pressing the next/previous game button

If you are adding most of your games “By Title”, then this will be a huge time-saver.

Here’s how the new “Search-As-You-Type” feature works:

1. In the Add Games Automatically screen, just start typing the first letters of the game you want to add.
2. While typing, a drop-down list will appear, instantly showing the five most popular games that match, listing the title, platform and a small thumbnail image.
3. For popular games, it usually takes only 2 or 3 letters before it shows up. For older or less popular games, type a few more letters.
4. Once you see your game appear, use the arrow keys to select it, then hit Enter.
5. Then under Search Results, that exact game will be listed, with its’ issue list.

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New:

• Edit screen with tabs (main details/personal details)
• Added folder options: my rating, edition, hardware type
• Added hardware type as option in the manage pick list screen
• Main list
  • Scroll position now remembered after editing/removing a game
  • Now updates live after editing a game
• Added a ‘show all’ folder item in empty folders on tablet devices

Fixed:

• List view section headers stopping at X
• Crash in the in-app-purchase screen
• Barcode can be added with voice dictation
• App was occasionally crashing when searching for a title
• Background image issue in the backdrop templates on phone devices

Fixed:

• Crashes during Check for Update proces

Do you already have a list of your movies, books, cds, comics or games? E.g. entered in a spread-sheet program, or created using a different cataloging tool, then exported to CSV?

Cool, you can now easily get that list into your Collectorz.com program (desktop, mobile or Connect). Just use our new flexible import tool to import your existing list into the CLZ Cloud. This will make your list instantly available in Connect. Or sync to the mobile app or desktop software using the CLZ Cloud syncing.

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Fixed:

• Edit Game:
  • On User Defined Fields tab, “_[Add pick list item]_” didn’t work for comboboxes
  • Changing the role for a credit would mark all games dirty where that person appeared instead of just the edited game
• Manage Pick Lists: removing pick list items didn’t mark their corresponding games as modified
• Main Screen: accelerator keys in main menu (like “ALT+F” for files menu) didn’t work

A huge v4.3 update for your CLZ Games mobile app is now available.

In this update, we complete re-designed the Add Games screen, to make it clearer, easier-to-user and to help you add games more efficiently.

What’s new in the Add Games screen?

• Switch between By Title and By Barcode using tabs at the top
  (Add Manually and Add Hardware are now under Tools menu)
• All panels are now resizable (list, details, camera)
• Add button is now at bottom right (blue circle with “+” icon)
• Adding By Title:
  • Suggestions appear in a drop-down while you type a title
  • Expand game edition list using “V” icons on the right
• Adding By Barcode:
  • Camera scanner is now integrated in Add screen, not a separate screen
  • Tap the keyboard icon in the camera panel to enter a barcode manually
  • Delete barcodes from queue by swiping from right to left
  • Barcode queue is now remembered between sessions

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As most of you know, at Collectorz.com we take Customer Support very seriously. We’re always here to answer your questions or to help with any problems you may have encountered with our cataloging tools.

To further streamline CLZ Support, Sven, one of our web-developers, has created a new Collectorz.com Help Center, at Help.CLZ.com

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Easily add games that come up as “Unrecognized Barcode”

• In Add Games Automatically, when a barcode is not recognized, a new “Unrecognized Barcode” screen will appear.
• In this screen:
  1. Just find your game by platform and title (Search-As-You-Type is also active here!)
  2. Use the integrated Find Cover tool to select the cover image.
  3. Then click Add Game.
• This will:
  1. Instantly add the barcode to OUR Core online game database, connected to the game you selected.
  2. Add the game to YOUR database with full game details, your barcode and image AND linked to the new Core entry.

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New:

• Split edit screen, easily switch between main and personal fields

Fixed:

• App respects the system screen orientation lock
• Background color for the searchbar on certain Lollipop tablet devices
• Long loading in Manage Pick Lists screen

New:

• Quick search now also supports Regular Expressions. Enter “matches:” followed by regular expression in the quick search box.
• Free Trial now has an information panel to show the user how to get started.
• Trial Popup has been simplified to make it easier to pick one of the options.
• The Trial Popup sometimes showed when it shouldn’t for existing users.

Big launch this week, our new Collectorz.com Shop is live at Shop.CLZ.com !

Bernard, Sven, AJ and I (Alwin) have been working on this for quite a while, doing many iterations, to make the new shop super-clear and easy to navigate, even on mobile devices.

This new shop replaces both the shop/buy pages of the collectorz.com website and the shop of the My.CLZ.com website. Both websites now link to the new Shop.CLZ.com.

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• Fixed app closing on CLZ Account registration

New:

• CLZ Cloud database detection for empty databases
• Out of sync notification on the sync button
• Improved restoring of in app purchase
• Added folder support for: multiplayer mode, edition and hardware type

Fixed:

• Fixed hardware keyboard enter not working in tablet search field

New: “Search-As-You-Type” suggestions when adding games by title

If you are adding most of your games “By Title”, then this will be a huge time-saver.

Here’s how the new “Search-As-You-Type” feature works:

1. In the Add Games Automatically screen, just start typing the first letters of the game you want to add.
2. While typing, a drop-down list will appear, instantly showing the five most popular games that match,
   listing the title, platform and a small thumbnail image.
3. For popular games, it usually takes only 2 or 3 letters before it shows up.
   For older or less popular games, type a few more letters.
4. Once you see your game appear, use the arrow keys to select it, then hit Enter.
5. Then under Search Results, that exact game will be listed.

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New: “Search-As-You-Type” suggestions when adding games by title. While enter a title to search for, a drop-down list will appear, showing the five most popular games that match. If you see the game you were looking for, just tap to select it.

Fixed:

• Screen rotation throughout the app
• Database totals counting hardware as games

Fixed:

• Field Defaults were not immediately stored after closing the screen
• Syncing screen: Sometimes the sync button was wrongly disabled

New data entry interface for date fields

• Allows manual entry of year/month/day
• Allow “partial dates”, e.g. just year and month
• Open the calendar tool with the calendar button.

• When using folders, a new [None] entry contains the items that have no value (yet) for the selected folder field.
• Adding games by barcode: fixed a problem where adding games was not possible when a barcode search returned multiple results.
• Adding games from Core: fixed: the platform of the game would be set to the configured default platform, instead of the real platform downloaded from Core
• Tablets: New always available search box in top bar.
• Add screen: some performance improvements.

Fixed:

• Export to XML is now capable of exporting large databases without “Out of Memory” errors, as it now writes the XML directly to hard disk. This is a bit slower though.
• Sync with Cloud: Original field was cleared when syncing down from the cloud
• Add/Modify Filter: “Contains” filters were always case insensitive even when “case sensitive” was checked
• Edit Multiple Games: F8 didn’t clear price values

A huge v4.3 update for your CLZ Games app is now available.
And prepare to be shocked 🙂 (in a good way, don’t worry):

The app looks completely different now, with a cleaner brighter look and an improved user interface. Here’s what’s new:

What’s new in CLZ Games 4.3 for Android?

• New “Material”-based interface, with two skins/themes: Light & Dark.
  (The app now starts in the Light skin. If you prefer the Dark look, just use the View menu top right)
• Big floating blue “+” button for adding games.
• Access all other features and tools from “hamburger” menu top left.
• Clear and easy switch between All / In Collection / Wish List at the top.
• Access all other view options from menu on top right.
• Add screen: tabs at the top to switch between By Title and By Barcode modes.
• Add Manually is now a separate menu item in the menu on the left.
• Redesigned book list entries.
• Old Import from Game Collector has been moved to Settings screen!