Fred Slota

Say you've selected a number of issues and want to add a note to the Notes field, a detail to an Item Description, a name to one of the Credit fields. You don't want to disturb the existing information, but you also don't want to manually add the detail to each issue, one by one. Add a check box to the Quick Change dialog such that the change doesn't replace the entries, but adds to them. I would suggest that the feature does a check for a leading delimiter and offers to add one if missing.

It doesn't look like Find & Replace will append to the end? If I want to add to the Notes field, say, is there a way?

Again, no hurry... just wondered with the fast feedback earlier whether there was any new news...

I did some additional searches, narrowing by publisher or looking at higher ratios, but the numbers don't really matter... What dose or doesn't currently exist, which scans follow the rules and which ones break the rules. The question isn't what the rules/guidelines are for portrait vs. landscape cover scans, but why those are the rules/guidelines. The best reason I can come up with was that early on there was a desire to optimize the resolution of the thumbnail scans. But, if so, is that still a valid reason? Screens are larger now. I think the software currently uses a larger default/initial thumbnail size than before. And we currently accept landscape scans for comic strip books, wide scans for wraparound and gatefold covers. Why don't we accept landscape scans for special covers on internally standard books?

Did a rebuild last night. Advanced find for ((I.[PictureWidth]*10)/I.[PictureHeight] > 14) AND ((I.[PictureWidth]*10)/I.[PictureHeight] < 17) which I believe winnowed out wraparound and gatefold cover scans. There are 1,822 cover scans that look like they have been entered in landscape orientation. I highly doubt that the majority of those were books that read entirely in landscape. I think the cat is out of the bag...

No hurry, but did you manage to get it working?

ugh indeed

Both are wraparound covers that together form a diptych. Both cover scans appear to have extra stuff above and below the cover image, I assume that came from some solicitation.

In the Find and Replace dialog window... Drop-down box with options of None, Mark, Custom Check 1, Custom Check 2, Custom Check 3. Before Replace All is performed, check to see if the selected Check Box is unchecked across the whole database, prompt with warning if not. For every issue modified by Replace All, set the selected Check Box. Check Box to opt in to perform a search of the checked setting after the Replace All is finished.

Wow! Thanks.

Writer, Artist, Inker, Letterer, Editor, Cover Artist, Colorist, Cover Inker. Might also consider WICCLACE...

Thanks for the warning. I'll play around with this. With a backup.

I suppose I could have moused around a little before asking... I right-click for Quick Change and didn't see it in the Right-click menu and didn't look further. Thanks

Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony

Is there a ComicBase Find & Replace? Quick Change will replace an entire field, but if I want to correct a semi-consistent misspelling in random places in a field, is there a way to do that in program? Is there a way to export/import such that I could use Excel to do some find & replace, such that the import will overwrite the changed field and not make duplicate entries?

All well and good to search by Artist, by Writer, by Cover... But how about an overall Credits search, which automatically searches for a name in all the different credit fields? Some of these people have multiple talents... In the Find bar. In the regular Search window. Is there anyone who has won the ComicBase version of an EGOT, a WAILECaCoCi (tm)?

IVX #1/M Despite the inidicia apparently identifying the series as "IVX", the majority of covers read "Inhumans vs. X-Men", with a minority bearing both, and apparently none with "IVX" on it's own. So, all of these can rightly have an Item Title of "Inhumans vs. X-Men" #1/M looks like the only virgin variant. Would it be right to give it an "Inhumans vs. X-Men" Item Title, too?

Ah, so staples don't always have to go on the left... ?

Oh-ho. It's the staple, is it... So many Manga books must either be mis-rotated 180 degrees or scanning the wrong cover, huh? ?

I need to do a rebuild, my picture information isn't complete. I think a judicious search of Picture Height/Width ratios would find that this has been inconsistent in implementation. Satirical question: Are ComicBase users going to be confused? If the scan isn't in portrait aspect, will they not recognize it? Do you throw away reject m&m's with E's, 3's and W's printed on them? ? Rhetorical questions: Do comic stores display landsacpe-bound or landscape-read books sideways? Would they if the could? Do comic stores display wraparound or gatefold covers fully opened? Would they if they could? What about the text orientation? Should the Title or other important text be oriented for normal reading presentation? Would they if they could? In my mind, the most important question: When an artist purposefully draws art meant to be viewed in landscape orientation, doesn't their art deserve to be presented as they intended?

Thank you, yes you understood.

The Item descriptions variously describe this as "Unlock Royal Rumble" or "Unlockable Royal Rumble". Is Unlock/Unlockable a store name? Is it a description of how a store gains the particular variant? Is it referencing a specific type of Royal Rumble?

No problem. I, of course, never make mistakes when posting on this forum, so I have no common frame of reference ?

That's the direction I was leaning. Nice to have company on this one.

Wellllll, this is interesting information. Could we get a more official pronouncement on the criteria for this?