News & updates released in 2017 (page 8)
New:
- Add Albums from CLZ Core: New skinned preview templates.
- After adding/editing an album, the app will now always find and show your last added album in your main screen.
- If you log in to your CLZ Account on a new or empty device, the app will now ask you if you wish to download your albums from CLZ Cloud.
- Added skinning to Sign up/Log in/In App Purchase screens.
Fixed:
- After each CLZ Cloud sync the “Quick Search” and “Collection Status Filter” was cleared.
- When a custom cover was downloaded via CLZ Cloud syncing, the thumbnail in the list wasn’t immediately updated.
- When an album was removed, the list would scroll back to the top.
- Various skinning, layout and color fixes.
New:
- Add Books from CLZ Core: New skinned preview templates.
- After adding/editing a book, the app will now always find and show your last added book in your main screen.
- If you log in to your CLZ Account on a new or empty device, the app will now ask you if you wish to download your books from CLZ Cloud.
- Added skinning to Sign up/Log in/In App Purchase screens.
Fixed:
- After each CLZ Cloud sync the “Quick Search” and “Collection Status Filter” was cleared.
- When a custom cover was downloaded via CLZ Cloud syncing, the thumbnail in the list wasn’t immediately updated.
- When a book was removed, the list would scroll back to the top.
- Various skinning, layout and color fixes.
Another productive week here for our Connect pages! Our web developer Joe has finished work on 2 improvements for your Connect page:
New layouts in Edit Screen
We recently took a look at our Edit Screen and figured it was time to change some fields around as we thought they weren’t all logically placed. So for all 5 Connect titles we’ve now changed the layout and placements of your fields in the Edit Screen. We also consolidated all “Cover” tabs in the edit screens so they work the same in all 5 Connect titles.
New: Duplicate feature
You can now duplicate an item in your database. To do this, click on an item in your database to view its details, then at the top click on “Duplicate”.
The new duplicated item will be an exact duplicate of the previous item, but it will be unlinked. You can Link the duplicated item with the “Link” button at the top of the details page.
v17.1.5: Fixed an issue with Search-As-You-Type in the Add Screen
Fixed:
- “Search as you type”: choosing a suggestion would do a normal title search with many results instead of only that movie.
- Right click and paste a text in the search box wouldn’t enable the “Search CLZ Core” button.
Add by Barcode: Now directly connect to your CLZ Barry barcode scanning app!
We’d love to see more users enjoy the fun and ease of adding items to their database by scanning barcodes with their phone or tablet. So we also decided a couple of weeks ago to make our CLZ Barry app FREE (previously US $10).
New: Directly connect to CLZ Barry from Connect
Previously you needed a special program to connect and send barcodes to your computer, but today we added a direct connection to CLZ Barry on all “Add by Barcode” pages on Connect, which means you can directly connect to any mobile device running the barcode scanning app “CLZ Barry” and scan barcodes straight into your Add by Barcode page on Connect!
Reminder: What is CLZ Barry ?
CLZ Barry is the Collectorz.com barcode scanner app. It lets you:
- Scan barcodes with your mobile device’s camera.
- Instantly send the barcodes (the 12 or 13-digit numbers) to the Add page on Connect.
How to get started with CLZ Barry
- Open the App Store or Play Store on your device,
then search for “CLZ BARRY” and download the app. - Follow the Getting Started Guide to set up and start scanning.
Getting Started for iOS / Getting Started for Android
v17.1.4: New features for the Add Movies screen and some fixes
New in Add Movies from CLZ Core:
- Adding By Barcode: removing entries from the queue is now even easier (and easier to find). When moving your mouse over a queue entry, a small delete button will appear over the cover image. Just click it to remove that entry.
- Adding By Barcode: new “Add Selected” option in right click menu, for adding the selected movies in one go. (Ctrl-click to select multiple)
- Adding By Title: the “expand” arrow (for expanding the edition list) is now easier to find, as it how highlights when moving your mouse over an entry.
Fixed:
- Add Movies from CLZ Core: when sending a batch of barcodes from a barcode scanner, it sometimes did not add all barcodes to the queue.
- Sync with CLZ Cloud: local front cover would sometimes be replaced with the online scaled version when down syncing.
Big changes today! The Add Books Automatically screen has been completely re-designed, to make it both easier-to-use and easier-on-the-eye (and it’s now called “Add Books from CLZ Core”):
- A simple two-panel design: Search Results on the left, Preview on the right.
- The Search Results now show cover images.
- Automatic Preview of selected result (no more double clicking).
See it in action:
Here’s the full list of improvements:
CLZ Alwin here, with an action-filled May 2017 Newsletter.
Lots of new releases and big ones too! Here we go:
- Movie Collector v17.1 for Windows: A completely new Add Movies screen
- v4.5 for all 5 CLZ Android apps, with improved Add screens
- Major progress for all 5 Connect editions
- The CLZ Barry barcode scanner app is now free! (was US $10)
Changed:
- Made some improvements to the barcode scanner
Fixed:
- Manual focus for barcode scanning
- Crash in the add auto screen when adding a mix of new albums and albums on wish list by barcode
- Crash in the pick cover option in the edit screen
Changed:
- Made some improvements to the barcode scanner
Fixed:
- Manual focus for barcode scanning
- Add Auto: Able to get a duplicate barcode in the barcode search queue by inputting it manually
- Crash in the add auto screen when adding a mix of new movies and movies on wish list by barcode
- Crash in the pick cover option in the edit screen
Changed:
- Made some improvements to the barcode scanner
Fixed:
- Manual focus for barcode scanning
- Crash in the add auto screen when adding a mix of new games and games on wish list by barcode
- Crash in the pick cover option in the edit screen
Changed:
- Made some more improvements to the barcode scanner
Changed:
- Made some improvements to the barcode scanner
Fixed:
- Manual focus for barcode scanning
- Crash in the add auto screen when adding a mix of new books and books on wish list by barcode
- Crash in the pick cover option in the edit screen
Fixed:
- The default folder was not set. Now defaults to ‘Series’ folder.
Fixed
- Add Comics Automatically: the cursor in the search series title box would sometimes jump to the end while changing the search term.
- Upload cover to CLZ Core: sometimes images were not uploaded properly because of the 500K size restriction although they were smaller in size.
Fixed:
- Add Movies Automatically: the cursor in the search title box would sometimes jump to the end while changing the search term.
- Upload cover to CLZ Core: sometimes images were not uploaded properly because of the 500K size restriction although they were smaller in size.
Improvements to “Selection Mode”
You can now enter selection mode and use the “Select All” button top left to select all items in a list, or use “Shift clicking” to select a bunch of items in one go (hold the Shift button on your keyboard and click a couple of items to select/deselect them).
Use these selection mode improvements to select a subset of your database and quickly export them to PDF for instance!
New “None” folder added
We added a new “None” folder to your folder group view. The “None” folder will display when the field you’re folder grouping on is empty for that item.
Example: if you folder on “Genres” but you have one item where the Genre is not filled in, that specific item will appear in your “None” folder!
Print to PDF: Field Names on every page
We added a new checkbox in the settings for Print to PDF to include the field names column header on every single page.
New statistics added
We added some more collection statistics to the statistic screen. In your Connect page, click the “wrench” icon top right and then “Statistics” to check them out!
Based on feedback from you we’ve improved the new Add Movies from CLZ Core screen even more today! Here’s what’s new:
New in “Add Movies from CLZ Core” screen
- Keyboard shortcuts:
- ALT+E to expand/collapse a result
- ALT+A to add current selected result
- ALT+C to add checked results (only in “By Barcode” tab)
- Usability improvements
- TV Series filter button now a separate and move obvious button also showing current filter
- Search by Barcode: right click the barcode queue to delete selected results
Changed:
- Made some tweaks to improve barcode scanning.
Fixed:
- Manual focus for barcode scanning.
- Crash in the add auto screen when adding a mix of new books and books on wish list by barcode.
- Crash in the pick cover option in the edit screen.
New:
- On restart the navigation state and view settings are restored
Changed:
- Old Import from Music Collector has been moved to Settings screen
Fixed:
- No placeholder covers in the main list when albums were missing their covers
- Crash in search-as-you-type box
- Added new review popup
New:
- On restart the navigation state and view settings are restored
Changed:
- Old Import from Movie Collector has been moved to Settings screen
Fixed:
- Crash in search-as-you-type box
- Added new review popup
New:
- On restart the navigation state and view settings are restored
Changed:
- Old Import from Game Collector has been moved to Settings screen
Fixed:
- App not showing number of hardware in the top bar in the main screen
- Crash in search-as-you-type box
- Added new review popup
New:
- On restart the navigation state and view settings are restored
Changed:
- Old Import from Book Collector has been moved to Settings screen
Fixed:
- Crash in search-as-you-type box
- Added new review popup
New:
- On restart the navigation state and view settings are restored
Changed:
- Old Import from Comic Collector has been moved to Settings screen
Fixed:
- Crash in search-as-you-type box
- Added new review popup
v17.1.2: Setting for the “Add Button” in Add Movies from CLZ Core
With this new version we added a new setting in the Add/Update Movies Automatically options screen and fixed some bugs that have been reported since yesterday. If you have any feedback about the new Add Movies from CLZ Core screen be sure to let us know!
New:
- Add Movies from CLZ Core:
- Choose if you want to get a popup with collection status when adding with “Adding to Collection/Wish List” option in “Tools > Options > Add/Update Movies Automatically”
Fixed:
- Add Movies from CLZ Core:
- Resizing the screen could cause an Access Violation
- Adding two barcodes of the same movie didn’t always work correctly
- Movie only result now also highlighted when one of its media is in your collection
- Highlight color for movies already in your collection more clear
- Search boxes didn’t automatically get focus after adding movies
- Sometimes the add button without a caption would remain after adding and no results were showing