News & updates (page 8)

Another nice update for your CLZ Comics app, with 2 new features that were requested by you all:

• Filter your Series list by “Completed” status
• New Setting for Series Images: Earliest Issue or Latest Issue

Filter your Series list by “Completed” status

This has been a recurring request since we introduced the ability to mark series as “Completed”. So we made it happen.
Just tap the checklist icon at the top and choose “Show completed” to only show all series that have been marked as Completed.

Note that the Series Completed flag is a manual flag. You decide if a series is completed or not. You can either set that flag in the Edit Series screen (e.g. from Manage Pick Lists) or just select multiple series in the series list, then choose “Mark as Completed” from the Action button menu.

New Setting for Series Images: Earliest Issue or Latest Issue

In your series list, the app has always shown the cover image of the latest issue for that series that you own. But some users indicated that they would prefer it to use the first or earliest issue of the series, because in most cases that is a more recognizable issue.

So we made it into a setting!

Other changes:

Next to the features above, we also added 2 other things, 1 requested (or demanded) by Apple, and 1 requested by the CLZ support guys and gal 🙂

• Edit Series screen: modify the CLZ Series ID:
  This is sometimes necessary when your series entry is linked to the wrong Core Series. In general: only do this when instructed by CLZ support staff.

• New “Delete my CLZ Account” option under Settings (iOS only):
  A new requirement by Apple, a way to to delete your account from the app itself. If you value your app, subscription and your cloud data, do NOT press this button!!! 🙂

Fixed for iOS:

• New in the Settings screen, as required by Apple: a “Delete my CLZ Account” button.
• Pull List: My Series now only works on your currently selected collection, instead of all collections
• Small fixes to the most valuable comics statistic

Fixed for Android:

• After tapping on a quick search series result, the keyboard wouldn’t automatically hide
• Small fixes to the most valuable comics statistic

Based on lots of feedback from members of the CLZ Comics group on Facebook, we decided to completely re-design and rewrite the Pull List feature. With this update, the Pull List tab in the Add Comics screen has been expanded into a fully flexible way to browse recent and upcoming comic releases.

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Another big update for your CLZ Comics app, in which we introduce a new view for your comic collection. But there’s more:

• Main screen:
  • New “Card View”
  • Selecting comics now also possible in Card View and Images View
  • Floating “Add Comics” button (the big blue “+”) now auto-hides
• Add Comics screen:
  • List View is back!
  • “Add Manually” is back!

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For this update, the main goal was to make the cover images in the Add Comics screen bigger, to make it easier to find the issue or variant that you own.

However, while working on that, we ran into many other things that could be improved, so we figured why not? So in the end, it turned out be a serious overhaul of the Add Comics screen 🙂

Here’s an overview of all the improvements:

• Bigger cover images in the Issue List
• The Issue List for a series now opens in a separate page
• Preview Page now also shows a bigger cover image
• New look or series search results and series search “suggestions box”
• Close the Add Comics screen with “X” top left, no more “double back button” confusion

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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 comics
• Editing multiple comics
• Removing multiple comics
• Updating from Core
• Updating key comic information

Fixed for Android:

• App could crash when tapping the Add button in the main screen

One of the most popular features we added to the Comic Connect in the past few years is the Pre-fill screen. You know, the screen that pops up when adding new comics 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 Storage Box, Owner, Purchase Date/Store/Price, Quantity, Grade, Grading Company, Raw/Slabbed 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 today:

• User-configurable Pre-fill screen: choose your own fields
• Pre-fill: new for personal Date fields: Fill with “Today”
• Pre-fill: new for Purchase Price: Use “Cover Price” minus your discount percentage.
• The Pre-fill screen is now also used to set field defaults

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