News & updates released in 2017 (page 9)
Big changes today! The Add Movies Automatically screen is now called “Add Movies from CLZ Core” and has been completely re-designed and re-built from scratch, to make it both easier-to-use and easier-on-the-eye:
- A simple two-panel design: Search Results on the left, Preview on the right.
- Big blue buttons for the main actions, Searching and Adding, can’t miss ’em 🙂
- The Search Results now show cover images and format icons.
See it in action:
Here’s the full list of improvements:
At the moment our entire web-team, 3 developers, is working full-time on our Connect editions. And it shows: lot of improvements and small tweaks are being released in rapid succession.
An overview of last week’s updates, now live in your Connect account:
Faster editing
This is a big one, as it makes editing your entries in Connect a lot quicker (and less annoying!).
Previously, after editing an entry, the entire list refreshed which A. was slow and B. caused you to lose your place in the list.
Now, the list does not refresh anymore. After an edit action, the edited item is simply updated with the new field values. Which is super quick and leaves you right where you were before you opened the Edit screen.
NOTE: this change has one implication: If your edit action would cause the item to be sorted in a different place in the list, or even to be moved to a different folder, that will not happen immediately. A simple manual refresh is all it takes in that case.
Updated Statistics screen
We re-wrote the Statistics screen using different charting tools, which makes them look and animate nicer AND solves several browser-specific problems.
Print to PDF enhancements
The new Print to PDF feature can now be used on a selection of items. So just go to Select mode, select some items, then choose Print to PDF in the toolbar top right.
Also, we have added a Margin setting, that lets you control the width of the margins of the generated PDF output.
More column and sort fields
We are regularly receiving requests for more fields to be available as column and sort fields. If technically feasible, we are adding these as we go. Some recent additions:
- Comics: Release Date and Cover Price are now available as column fields.
- Comics: Read It is now available in the Field Defaults settings.
- Movies: Director and Format are now sortable fields.
- Movies: Title Sort is now available as an Export field.
- Games: Genre is now available as a sort field.
This update to the CLZ Music for Android app brings Adding by Catalog number and many user interface improvements to the Add Albums screen:
- New Add Automatically tab:
- Adding by Catalog Number
- All panels are now resizable (list, details, camera)
- When adding an album that is already on your wish list, the app now lets you change its status to “In Collection”.
- 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
- Barcode queue is now remembered between sessions
- Press and hold to delete a barcode from the queue
- Adding By Title:
- Album not found? Easy add it manually using the special entry in the results list
This update to the CLZ Comics app for Android brings user interface improvements to the Add Comics screen:
- All panels are now resizable (list, details, camera)
- When adding a comic that is already on your wish list, the app now lets you change its status to “In Collection”.
- 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
- Barcode queue is now remembered between sessions
- Press and hold to delete a barcode from the queue
- Adding By Title:
- Expand comic issues list using “V” icons on the right
- Comic not found? Easy add it manually using the special entry in the results list
This update to the CLZ Games app for Android brings user interface improvements to the Add Games screen:
- All panels are now resizable (list, details, camera)
- When adding a game that is already on your wish list, the app now lets you change its status to “In Collection”.
- 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
- Barcode queue is now remembered between sessions
- Press and hold to delete a barcode from the queue
- Adding By Title:
- Expand game edition list using “V” icons on the right
- Game not found? Easy add it manually using the special entry in the results list
This update to the CLZ Books app for Android brings user interface improvements to the Add Books screen:
- All panels are now resizable (list, details, camera)
- When adding a book that is already on your wish list, the app now lets you change its status to “In Collection”.
- Adding By ISBN barcode:
- Camera scanner is now integrated in Add screen, not a separate screen
- Tap the keyboard icon in the camera panel to enter an ISBN manually
- ISBN Barcode queue is now remembered between sessions
- Press and hold to delete an ISBN barcode from the queue
- Adding By Author/Title:
- Book not found? Easy add it manually using the special entry in the results list
This update to the CLZ Movies app for Android brings user interface improvements to the Add Movies screen:
- All panels are now resizable (list, details, camera)
- When adding a movie that is already on your wish list, the app now lets you change its’ status to “In Collection”.
- 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
- Barcode queue is now remembered between sessions
- Press and hold to delete a barcode from the queue
- Adding By Title:
- Expand movie edition list using “V” icons on the right
- Movie not found? Easy add it manually using the special entry in the results list
New in the CLZ Cloud viewer and Music Connect: a Print to PDF feature!
Generate a PDF file from your album list, ideal for printing.
New in the CLZ Cloud viewer and Game Connect: a Print to PDF feature!
Generate a PDF file from your game list, ideal for printing.
New in the CLZ Cloud viewer and Comic Connect: a Print to PDF feature!
Generate a PDF file from your comic list, ideal for printing.
New in the CLZ Cloud viewer and Book Connect: a Print to PDF feature!
Generate a PDF file from your book list, ideal for printing.
New in the CLZ Cloud viewer and Movie Connect: a Print to PDF feature!
Generate a PDF file from your movie list, ideal for printing.
April 27 is King’s Day in the Netherlands and a national holiday. With the CLZ office closed, this gives me, Alwin, the time to write this month’s CLZ Newsletter.
Two main events this April:
- Five huge v4.5 updates for the CLZ apps for iPhone & iPad:
All 5 have received a huge make-over, with a fresh new look that is cleaner and brighter, plus Light and Dark Skin options. - Game Collector v17.1, with several improvements for serious collectors:
A new Loose/CIB/New field, automatic PriceCharting price updates and 10 more fields being synced to the CLZ Cloud.
(BTW: the updates for the Add screens of the Android apps are still a work in progress. This project got delayed because our Android developer Pim had to do some emergency assistance on other projects. But, almost done now, ETA within 2 weeks.)
Fixed:
- Edit Screen: clicking “Update” would cause an Access Violation
Fixed:
- Edit Screen: clicking “Update” would cause an Access Violation
Fixed:
- Edit Screen: clicking “Update” would cause an Access Violation
Fixed:
- Edit Screen: clicking “Update” would cause an Access Violation
Fixed:
- Edit Screen: clicking “Update” would cause an Access Violation
New in 4.5.2:
- New Details View templates which are easier on the eye:
- Clear Light template
- Clear Dark template
Fixed:
- Covers were not updated in the main list after editing a movie.
- Main Screen: Unknown Formats now have a text label in the cell.
- Login now does a receipt check.
- “Change Template” button moved to right sidebar in the main screen.
- Better thumbnail layout in Landscape Mode.
- After closing the add movies automatically screen, it now selects the latest added movie.
- Improved “tap” area of hamburger menu so you can back out of a folder more easily.
New in 4.5.2:
- New Details View templates which are easier on the eye:
- Clear Light template
- Clear Dark template
- Changed layout in some templates (repositioned “Subtitle” to make more room for “Title”).
Fixed:
- The last book in a list could not be selected.
- Covers were not updated in the main list after editing a book.
- Login now does a receipt check.
- “Change Template” button moved to right sidebar in the main screen.
- Better thumbnail layout in Landscape Mode.
- After closing the add books automatically screen, it now selects the latest added book.
- After syncing “collection status” no longer reverts to “all”.
- Improved “tap” area of hamburger menu so you can back out of a folder more easily.
New in 4.5.2:
- New Details View templates which are easier on the eye:
- Clear Light template
- Clear Dark template
Fixed:
- Covers were not updated in the main list after editing an album.
- Login now does a receipt check.
- “Change Template” button moved to right sidebar in the main screen.
- Better thumbnail layout in Landscape Mode.
- After closing the add albums automatically screen, it now selects the latest added album.
- Improved “tap” area of hamburger menu so you can back out of a folder more easily.
New in 4.5.2:
- New Details View templates which are easier on the eye:
- Clear Light template
- Clear Dark template
Fixed:
- iPad: WANT-HAVE header was not correctly updated when changing Series folder.
- Improved “tap” area of hamburger menu so you can back out of a folder more easily.
New in 4.5.2:
- New Details View templates which are easier on the eye:
- Clear Light template
- Clear Dark template
Fixed:
- After closing the add games automatically screen, it now selects the latest added game
- Improved “tap” area of hamburger menu so you can back out of a folder more easily.
Fixed:
- Edit Screen: switching tabs could throw a “Cannot focus a disabled or invisible window” error when the screen was still loading.
- Edit Screen: clicking “Update” could throw a “hotkey not registered” error.
Fixed:
- Edit Screen: switching tabs could throw a “Cannot focus a disabled or invisible window” error when the screen was still loading.