Steven L. Dasinger

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For #2, if it is saddle-stitched like most comics, Binding type of 'Staple' would probably be the most accurate.

Occasionally, the listed version number and the actual version number do not match. When this happens CB thinks there should be an update. This can be due something as simple as a typo (especially if the difference is something like 1232 and 1233). Or it is possible that a change was made but the download installer wasn't changed. Either way, the people a Human Computing (HC) should see this and correct the problem.

Star Wars: Inquisitors IS in CB (or at least my database). Check what you have set by clicking the 'VIEW' drop-down box and looking under 'Items To Show'. (See attached) You have might have 'Owned Items' checked'

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For the Scanner, if you bought it from Human Computing (HC), you can contact support to get it working (there should have been instructions). If not, they may be able to let you know what settings you need to look for. NOTE: To test the scanner, open up a text editor (i.e. Notepad) and scan into it. This will allow you to see what the scanner is picking up. Using the Scanner. There are two ways to use the Scanner: 1) Attempting to Find issues (1 at a time): Click in the 'find' box at the top of the window (there should be gray text of 'Series name or barcode in it). Assuming that barcode is in ComicBase (CB), the display should bring up the issue. If it does, you can set the Qty to 1 (or however many copies you have) at a minimum. This will indicate you own that issue. You can also enter other information (i.e. Grade, Cost) if you like. 2) Adding multiple issues. NOTE: You didn't mention what Edition of CB you have. This option may not be available in the Express Edition. Select Menu item Items->Add by Barcode (or CTRL+I). Click in the box next to 'Barcode' at the top of the window. Use scanner to scan the barcode of an issue. A) It will find it and add it to the list. or B) It won't find it. If B, you can either put it aside and deal with it later or click the 'Lookup...' button and navigate to the Title/Issue to select it so it is added to the list. (I find it easier to deal with these later (espescially if you are not sure of the Title).) When you are finished scanning, I would suggest making sure the Check box 'Display items after saving' and/or 'Mark Added Items' are checked (you can also use the 'print divider labels for new titles' if that is what you want to do). Then click Save. NOTES: 1) While the Issues are in the list you can change the Condition, Cost, and/or Selling Price, if you like. It may be easier to do after Save and have the added issues displayed. 2) If you have scanned in issues of different Types (Comic Books, Books, Magazines), only one Type will be displayed after saving. This is because ComicBase (CB) can only display one type at a time. I haven't tried this personally, but, I have been told that using the History drop-down (top middle of the main window that looks like an circular arrow with clock hands) to display the other Types. Or, if you chose the 'Mark' option, you can do a Find in the different Types for issues that are 'Marked'. Sending to Heritage: There is a Menu item Internet->Request Collection Evaluation that will send information to Heritage to get an evaluation. Getting information to other web sites: There is a menu option File->Export for E-commerce... but I don't know much about it. Someone else might supply more information or contacting Support could get you more information. Other options are: Export which allows you to send selected (by you ) columns to a Comma or (preferred) Tab delimited text file (which can be added to a spreadsheet, if you like). Run a Find to display issues you want, then high-light the cells of the grid and use Windows CTRL+C / CTRL+V to copy / paste the information (you can either display only certain columns or delete the extra columns in spreadsheet (easiest way). Possibly you can run various Reports (Collection Overview, Collection Report, etc.). This is some basic information. If you have something else in mind, a more detailed request would help.

There is not a way to export the Publisher. However you can display it, then use windows Copy paste to get the information. The basic steps (I am doing this from memory from a few years ago but the basics should still work) are: Background information. There are two types of Find that CB uses and each has a different display.\ A Find on Issue fields (this includes Advanced Find) returns Title, Issue Number, and other information. A Find on Title fields returns Title, Publisher, and other information. To get Publisher you need to use a Title Find. Basic steps Get the Issue information. This can be by using Export or you can do Issue field Find, then copy/paste the information. Then get the information into Excel (Import or Paste). Next run a Find using Title fields. To get all of your collection, you can do something like Find Title Field IS GREATER THAN and put a 'space' (press the space bar) in the text box. At the bottom , there is a drop-down box to include either All, items IN or items NOT IN your collection. Select IN your collection. When the Find results are displayed, click in the top Title cell to highlight it. Then scroll all the way to the bottom, press and hold the SHIFT key then click the the last Publisher cell. This should highlight all the cells in the two columns Title and Publisher. Use CTRL+C to copy the highlighted information. Go to Excel and Paste in this information. Next you need to use Excel skills... There is a way to 'join' the two lists you have (one with all the Title, Issue numbers and the other with Title, Publisher) into another list based on Title being equal. I don't recall exactly how to do this but it wasn't too difficult. Google search should give you information on how to do this. PS If you run an Advanced Find (displays Title, Issue information), you can access the Publisher with ComicTitles.Publisher in the Items Where box. For example, this will return only Marvel Titles: ComicTitles.Publisher = 'Marvel' NOTE: For Books you would use BookTitles.

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I don't believe there is a way to easily get a list in the same order outside of CB. Or at least not directly. This may or may not help you depending on what you are doing or trying to accomplish (need CB Professional or higher). CB has a 'hidden' title column called AlphabetizedTitle. This is used by CB to get the Titles in the displayed order. Instead of using Export, you can run an Advanced Find, then Copy/Paste the result column into Excel (note you still can't use Excel to sort as it will change the order since it won't have AlphabetizedTitle available). To get a list of all the Comic Book Titles/Issues you own: Run an Advanced Find with: WHERE I.[QtyInStock] >= 1 ORDER BY ComicTitles.AlphabetizedTitle, I.[ItemType], I.[IssueNum], I.[Variation], I.[Printing] Select All with CTRL+A Copy with CTRL+C In Excel, Paste with CTRL+V NOTE: If you only want Title and Item #, you can just select those columns by Click in the first Title cell Scroll to the bottom and with the SHIFT key pressed and held, click the the last Item # Cell. Then Copy (from CB) and Paste (to Excel) If you want more columns, you can either copy all the columns then delete what you don't want from Excel or use menu item Setup->Columns to View to only display the columns you want before selecting all (either with CTRL+A or Selecting the first row/first cell and the last row/last cell with SHIFT pressed and held). Finally this is just for Comic Books. If you need Books and/or Magazines you would use: BookTitles.AlphabetizedTitle MagazineTitles.AlphabetizedTitle PS You will want to format the Title and Item # columns in Excel as 'TEXT' so they justify correctly.

I am not sure I have a clear picture of what exactly you need. Did you bad hard drive contain the program, you database or both? Normally, the icon on your desktop is the Program and not the actual database. Having said all that... If not already done you (may) need to reinstall CB. Database are located by default at C : \Users\<logon-id>\Documents\Human Computing\ComicBase Databases. NOTE: You can locate the database any where you like (even on a different drive). Copy the database backup to the default location (or the location you may have been using) AND Rename it to the normal database name you were using. Do NOT open a database with (Backup <timestamp>) as part of the name (or you will get backup of backup in the name and it gets messy). Installing the Program should put the icon back on your desktop. To open up the database (where ever you put it), you can double-click on the actual database name. This will open it up in CB and remember where it is when you close and reopen CB. If this doesn't help, I will more specific information.

Yes, titles designated as 'Light Novel's are either text only or text with illustrations and should be Type Books (at least in all cases I have come across).

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I added it to my database and submitted the cover.

In the top left side of the window, click on the VIEW drop-down icon. Then select Grid Cover Icon Size and then The size desired. (see attached)

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Are the missing/non-importing issues in the file that was Exported? If the are, can you see anything strange about the data for those issues? If they are not in the file, then they didn't get Exported for some unknown reason. And if they are not in the file? can you try to Export one or more of those issues by themselves? You can do this by checking the 'Marked' box on the issue( s ). Then, when Exporting, select 'Export only marked items'. PS, If you seem to be missing entire titles, you might do a Find for Publisher name 'Unknown Publisher'. Any title CB can't match to an existing Title in CB will have the Publisher set to 'Unknown Publisher'.

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If I am editing a long string, I tend to copy it out into Notepad (or text editor of your choice) and making the correction there just because of the scenario you described. However, if you want to edit in the cell, here are a couple of tricks. 1) select/high-light just the character (singular) you want to manipulate. Then either delete or type in the replacement character. 2) Copy a single or multiple characters from another source. Then either place the cursor where you want to insert it and Paste or high-light one or more consecutive chatterers and paste it in. You may have to experiment a little to get used to doing these in cell changes.

One more thing you can try. Load the export file to a spreadsheet. Sort by Title and see what the first or last row looks like. The Problem row should (hopefully) be the first or last row.

If you want to do a little work, you can try to find the 'problem' row by: Take a copy of the export file and split it into smaller parts (2 to 5 or so). Then try to Import each part. hopefully just one contains the problem. Mass Change Qty in Stock to 0 Take the one (hopefully) part and split it up and attempt to Import them. Then repeat Mass Change, split file into smaller chunks and import. Eventually (and sooner than you might think) the file will be small enough that you can scan through it to see something 'strange' that is causing the problem. Once you find it, you can go back to the original Export file, find and Delete/Fix the row,m then try Importing the whole thing. Technically, the process is to split the file in half, then half again, etc. It is called a Binary search for that reason. But you can speed the process up by splitting into more sections.