What's new in CLZ Movies? (page 14)

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.

New:

• When using folders, a new [None] entry contains the items that have no value (yet) for the selected folder field.
• Tablets: New always available search box in top bar.
• Add screen: some performance improvements.

Fixed:

• Empty menus on some devices.
• Trailer videos didn’t stop playing.

“Export to Text”, a feature previously only available to Connect subscribers, has now also been added to the CLZ Cloud viewer.

We figured that exporting to a text file, e.g. a CSV for Excel, should be available to any user, whether they own Connect, the desktop software or a CLZ mobile app.

You can find the Export to Text feature by visiting your own collection in the CLZ Cloud viewer, clicking the little “wrench” icon top right, then selecting Export.

Enjoy!

A huge v4.3 update for your CLZ Movies 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 Movies 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 movies.
• 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 Movie Collector has been moved to Settings screen!

Fixed:

• CLZ Cloud Sync: Notes were not down-synced.
• Edit Screen: Year picker: it was not possible to pick a year before “1888″.
• Manage Pick Lists screen: labels width was too short.

• 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.

• New “Manage Pick Lists” tool for editing and merging Formats, Genres, Series etc..
• Edit screen: Now edit the names of Format, Genre, Subject entries.
• Edit screen: New “value picker” screen for quickly filling fields like Format and Genre.
• New Tools menu, with Manage Pick Lists, Field Defaults and Empty Database tools.

• Fixed crashes in in-app purchase screen on certain Xiaomi phones
• Fixed crash in in-app purchase screen when only one in app purchase was offered

We have completely rewritten our Core for Movie search engine, that is, the online code that gives you results when you search our Core by Title in your Add screen.

The new search engines will provide better search results that are more “to-the-point” and less “fuzzy”. Also, results will be returned much faster.

• Fixed barcode search not working with hardware keyboards
• Fixed the seen it folder not working when a collection status filter was active
• Fixed crash while syncing broken images

New:

• Settings / Field Defaults: choose field values that will be set for each new entry automatically.
• Edit screen improvements:
  • Improved layout to make it easier on the eye
  • New “Select Value” screen for easier entry of pick list fields (e.g. Artist, Format, Genre, etc…)
  • Cancel and Done buttons have been moved to the top bar.
  • New Delete button at the bottom.

• Fixed crash when changing sort order while in a folder.
• Fixed wrong number of search results displayed when searching in a folder
• Fixed lists not refreshed properly after editing (on phone)
• Fixed IMDB folder showing 10 star rated movies as 1 star rated
• Folder item list is now fast-scrollable

New folder options:

• IMDb Rating: group movies into folders based on IMDb Rating
• Collection Status: group movies by their Collection Status
  (Collection, Wish List, On Order, For Sale)

Also fixed a couple of bugs.

Previously, the Connect free 30-day trial limited trial users to 100 items in their database.

To allow full evaluation of our Connect software during the trial, we have removed this database limit. The free 30-day trial now lets you add, import or sync as many items as you want.

Enjoy!

Fixed:

• Fixed a login error
• Packaging field wasn’t syncing to CLZ Cloud

Since version 4.0.1 CLZ Movies is now free to download!
The free download has a database limit of 100 movies.Increase your database limit using In App Purchases.

(Did you pay for the app before the v4 release? Then the app will automatically unlock to unlimited database size. Didn’t happen for you? Just contact us and we’ll unlock it manually!)

This version: Fixed a database limit pop up in the direct import.

Now a free app, with a database limit of 100 movies.
Increase your database limit using In App Purchases.

New:

• IMDB Rating now shown in movie lists.
• Sort your list by IMDb Rating.
• Easily switch between Add methods (Title/Barcode/Manual).
• Re-designed search results, including cover images.
• Now add directly from results using quick add buttons.
  (no more need to open the Preview Screen)

• Add by Barcode now automatically opens Camera Scan screen.

Fixed:

• Fixed crash on select all in selection mode
• Fixed crash when opening “Add By Barcode” screen on Gingerbread devices

It’s been a long time in the making, but it’s finally here:
CLZ Movies 4.0 for iOS!

And: It’s a free update for everyone who already owns the app.

New main screen features:

• IMDB Rating now shown in movie lists.
• Sort your list by IMDb Rating.
• Use IMDB Rating as the folder field.
• Use Collection Status as the folder field.

Improved Add Movies screen

• Easily switch between Add methods (Title/Barcode/Manual).
• Re-designed search results with included cover images.
• Now add directly from results using quick-add buttons
  (no more need to open the Preview Screen).
• New black style for Preview Screen.
• Add by Barcode now automatically opens Camera Scan screen.

Now free to download, with a 100-movie limit

CLZ Movies is now free to try out and starts with a limit of 100 movies.

For better security, we have now moved both the Cloud and Connect websites to the HTTPS protocol, using so-called Extended Validation SSL certificates.

This SSL connection is indicated by the nice “green bar” in your address bar:

In the past 2 weeks, we have moved all 5 online media databases (movies, books, music, comics and games) to 5 new separate database servers.

This week, CLZ web developers Sven and Dion have further optimized these new servers to give you even better performance from Core, especially for title searches that have many results.

The fruits of their labour are now immediately noticeable in the ADD screens of your Connect software. Enjoy!

Today, we have completed the big project of moving our 5 Core and Cloud databases to a new server solution. Previously, everything was running on two high performance dedicated machines: one for all databases and websites, the second for all cover images.

For better performance, stability and scalability, we are now splitting up all services into multiple separate cloud-based solutions:

• 5 separate database servers for all 5 Core+Cloud databases
  
  Status: completed today!

• 5 separate storage servers / delivery networks for all cover images.
  
  Status: preparing the switch now. ETA: several weeks.

• 1 new fast web server for the Cloud, Core and Connect sites and services.
  
  ETA: within 2 months.

A few weeks ago, we introduced the ability to assign multiple formats to a movie, for example, Blu-ray AND DVD. However, the user interface for doing so was a bit clunky (and annoying, to be honest).

So fixed that. Here’s our new super-fast UI, just check checkboxes to select the formats:

Enjoy!