News & updates released in 2016 (page 6)

If you are adding most of your movies “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 Movies Automatically screen, just start typing the first letters of the title you want to add.
2. While typing, a drop-down list will appear, showing the five most popular titles that match,
   including the release year and a small thumbnail image.
3. For recent / popular movies, it usually takes only 2 or 3 letters before it shows up.
   For older or less popular movies, type a few more letters.
4. Once you see your movie appear, use the arrow keys to select it, then hit Enter.
5. Then under Search Results, that exact movie will be listed, automatically Previewed on the right.
6. Click the Add Selected button to add it to your database.

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Improvements:

• Cloud Syncing: Now does up to 5 retries when a sync action fails because of a temporary connection problem.
• Edit Movie: Improved “search as you type” behaviour of search boxes for adding cast and crew.
• Dark Skin: active window now has a light grey border, making it stand out more when windows overlap.

Fixed:

• Add Automatically: adding a checked result would sometimes uncheck a result from another search in the queue.
• Main Screen / Two Panel Mode: selection status text would sometimes show an invalid text when no movies were showing in the list.
• Edit Multiple: F8 to clear didn’t work for memo fields like Plot and Notes.
• Edit Multiple: F8 in Movie format field would also clear Disc format field of first disc.
• Main Screen: “Edit in List” feature made it seem like “Extra Features” could be edited but it shouldn’t be editable.

Fixed:

• Export to HTML/Printing would throw a “Field id 123 has no XML tagname.” error for the “Is TV Series” field
• Add automatically: adding a checked result would sometimes uncheck a result from another search in the queue
• Main Screen: selection status text would sometimes show an invalid text in two panel mode when no movies were showing in the list
• Screen started to “flicker” after leaving the program inactive for a few minutes.

• Fixed losing changes when suspending the app while editing
• Fixed release year not downloading when adding by title/barcode
• Fixed already in collection highlighting in the add auto screens
• Fixed cover section in the add manually screen on phones
• Fixed broken add location button in the edit screen

Version 4.2 adds a couple of improvements and tools that are essential for users who are doing most of their editing on the mobile apps:

• New “Manage Pick Lists” screen (under new Tools menu).
  This new screen lets you take control of your pick lists, that is book Authors, music Artists, comic Series, Publishers, Formats, Genres, Subjects, etc… Use it to:
  • Fix typos in names.
  • Remove unused entries.
  • Merge duplicate entries.
• Edit screen improvements:
  • New “value picker” screen for pick list fields, like Authors, Artists, Series, Genres, Subjects, etc… Just tap the field, pick a value from the pick list that appears and done. No more need to type the first few letters of a value (we all hate typing on mobile devices, don’t we?)
  • Tap the pencil icons to directly edit names of pick list entries.
  • Tap the pencil icon for Artists, Authors and Series to directly edit Names *and* SortNames.