Steven L. Dasinger

Currently only Collection Report and Item Checklists, Price List, and Wanted List have the ability to display Custom Fields (You can make a request for this to be different under Feature Suggestions.) However there is a way to get what you want with a few extra steps. This is to use the Marked box (you can't be using Marked for other things at the same time, though). 1) Run the find like you want. 2) Select All Items (CTRL+A is one easy way to do this). 3) Right-click and select Quick Change. 4) Change: 'Marked' To: 'Is Checked' Once the items are Marked you can: 5) Use Report-> (report type) where Report type is one of the Reports that allow Custom Fields (Collction Report or Item Checklists are probably the best) 6) On the Report window, check the boxes for 'List Only Marked Issues' and teh various 'Custom Fields' you want. (You can make other selections but you need to check at least these) 7)Run the Report. NOTE: You will need to Find the Marked Issues and change then to 'Unchecked' to clear the Marked field before using it for anything else that would look for Marked being Checked.

I believe the last in your list (the Silver Edition) is the so-called Kirbychrome variant.

I can confirm the indicia title is 'Jack Kirby's The Demon' and reprints the 16 issues from 'The Demon (1st Series)'. it does not have Omnibus anywhere on or in the book.

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Bk 1-HC.jpg) From: Pictures\B\Boom!\Feathers To: Pictures\A\Archaia\Feathers Delete or Move ALL (1.jpg - 4-B.jpg From: Pictures\B\Boom!\Fraggle Rock (Jim Henson's-) To: Pictures\A\Archaia\Fraggle Rock (Jim Henson's-) Delete or Move 1.jpg From: Pictures\B\Boom!\Fraggle Rock Omnibus (Jim Henson's-) To: Pictures\A\Archaia\Fraggle Rock Omnibus (Jim Henson's-) Delete or Move 1-HC.jpg From: Pictures\B\Boom!\Fraggle Rock- Where Is It- (Jim Henson's-) To: Pictures\A\Archaia\Fraggle Rock- Where Is It- (Jim Henson's-) Delete or Move 1.jpg From: Pictures\B\Boom!\Girl in the Himalayas, A To: Pictures\A\Archaia\Girl in the Himalayas, A Delete or Move 1.jpg From: Pictures\B\Boom!\Girl on Film To: Pictures\A\Archaia\Girl on Film Delete or Move 1-HC.jpg From: Pictures\B\Boom!\Grand Abyss Hotel, The To: Pictures\A\Archaia\Grand Abyss Hotel, The Delete or Move ALL (1.jkpg - Bk 1.jpg) From: Pictures\B\Boom!\Hacktivist To: Pictures\A\Archaia\Hacktivist Delete or Move ALL (1.jpg - Bk 1-HC.jpg) From: Pictures\B\Boom!\Hacktivist (Vol. 2) To: Pictures\A\Archaia\Hacktivist (Vol. 2) Delete or Move 1-HC.jpg From: Pictures\B\Boom!\Happiness Will Follow To: Pictures\A\Archaia\Happiness Will Follow Delete or Move 1-HC.jpg From: Pictures\B\Boom!\Immortals- Gods and Heroes To: Pictures\A\Archaia\Immortals- Gods and Heroes Delete or Move 1-HC.jpg From: Pictures\B\Boom!\Iscariot To: Pictures\A\Archaia\Iscariot Delete or Move 1-HC.jpg From: Pictures\B\Boom!\Jane To: Pictures\A\Archaia\Jane Delete or Move ALL (1.jpg - 4.jpg) From: Pictures\B\Boom!\Joyners, The To: Pictures\A\Archaia\Joyners, The Delete or Move ALL (1.jpg - 2-B.jpg) From: Pictures\B\Boom!\Killer, The- Affairs of the State To: Pictures\A\Archaia\Killer, The- Affairs of the State Delete or Move ALL (1.jpg - 1-E.jpg) From: Pictures\B\Boom!\Labyrinth 30th Anniversary Special (Jim Henson's- ) To: Pictures\A\Archaia\Labyrinth 30th Anniversary Special (Jim Henson's- ) Delete or Move ALL (1.jpg - Bk 3-HC.jpg) From: Pictures\B\Boom!\Labyrinth- Coronation (Jim Henson's-) To: Pictures\A\Archaia\Labyrinth- Coronation (Jim Henson's-) Delete or Move 1-A.jpg & 1-B.jpg From: Pictures\B\Boom!\Labyrinth- Masquerade (Jim Henderson's-) To: Pictures\A\Archaia\Labyrinth- Masquerade (Jim Henderson's-) Delete or Move 1-HC.jpg From: Pictures\B\Boom!\Labyrinth Tales (Jim Henson's-) To: Pictures\A\Archaia\Labyrinth Tales (Jim Henson's-) Delete or Move 1.jpg From: Pictures\B\Boom!\Labyrinth- Under the Spell To: Pictures\A\Archaia\Labyrinth- Under the Spell Delete or Move ALL (1.jpg - Bk 3.jpg) From: Pictures\B\Boom!\Lantern City To: Pictures\A\Archaia\Lantern City Delete or Move ALL (1-A.jpg - 5-B.jpg) From: Pictures\B\Boom!\Magicians, The To: Pictures\A\Archaia\Magicians, The Delete or Move 1-HC.jpg From: Pictures\B\Boom!\Magicians, The- Alice's Story To: Pictures\A\Archaia\Magicians, The- Alice's Story Delete or Move 1-HC.jpg From: Pictures\B\Boom!\March Of The Crabs, The- The Crabby Condition To: Pictures\A\Archaia\March Of The Crabs, The- The Crabby Condition Delete or Move 1-HC.jpg From: Pictures\B\Boom!\Mouse Guard- Alphabet Book To: Pictures\A\Archaia\Mouse Guard- Alphabet Book Delete or Move 1-HC.jpg From: Pictures\B\Boom!\Mouse Guard- Art of Bricks To: Pictures\A\Archaia\Mouse Guard- Art of Bricks Delete or Move 1.jpg From: Pictures\B\Boom!\Mouse Guard- The Owlhen Caregiver To: Pictures\A\Archaia\Mouse Guard- The Owlhen Caregiver Delete or Move 1-HC.jpg From: Pictures\B\Boom!\Persephone To: Pictures\A\Archaia\Persephone Delete or Move ALL (1.jpg - 4.jpg) From: Pictures\B\Boom!\Plunder To: Pictures\A\Archaia\Plunder Delete or Move ALL (1.jpg - 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3-A.jpg) From: Pictures\B\Boom!\Storyteller- Tricksters (Jim Henderson's-) And/Or Delete or Move ALL (1-A.jpg - 4-A.jpg) From: Pictures\B\Boom!\Storyteller- Tricksters (Jim Henson's-) To: Pictures\A\Archaia\Storyteller, The- Tricksters (Jim Henson's-) Delete or Move ALL (1.jpg - Bk 1.jpg) From: Pictures\B\Boom!\Toil and Trouble To: Pictures\A\Archaia\Toil and Trouble Delete or Move 1-HC.jpg From: Pictures\B\Boom!\Bear (Boom!) 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Abrams\Horror! The Horror!, The Delete or Rename 1983-HC.jpg to HC 1983 then Move From: Pictures\W\World International\K.9 Annual To: Pictures\W\World International\K9 Annual Rename 1.jpg to TPB.jpg From: Pictures\D\Dark Horse\S\Sexy Chix Rename: Bk 1.jpg to MMPB 1.jpg Bk 2-HC.jpg to HC 2.jpg Bk 3-HC.jpg to HC 3.jpg From: Pictures\B\Boulevard\Spider-Man- Sinister Six Trilogy Delete 14202.jpg From: Pictures\D\Dell Magazines\Analog Science Fiction and Fact (duplicate of 14203)

There appears to be some inconsistency with the various '...: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus' titles Some have Bk 1/HC & Bk 1/A while others have 1/HC & 1/A. If you want them to be Bk 1/HC & Bk 1/A (doesn't really matter to me), then to at least keep the 3 Kull Titles (Conqueror, Destroyer, Savage) consistent, 'Kull the Conqueror: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus' 1/HC & 1/A could also be changed to Bk 1/HC & Bk 1/A.

Do you have CB on two different computers (or possibly with two different logon ids)? In general, the people who order CB before the final color image was avaialble got the install with the Pencil splash start up. It should always use the same splash startup image until (and this is where it gets a little fuzzy)... You uninstall CB program and CB Resources before an re-install. However, I have done this and still got the pencil splash. But, recently, I has reason to delete items from Windows %tmp% folder. When I installed the next build of CB, I got the color splash. But it should be one or the other. It shouldn't switch back and forth between them.

To answer your question. No, there is no way in CB to display covers as you are asking for. The best you can do is open the Pictures folder (Right-click on the large cover image in top-left corner) and use Windows Photo Viewer (if you enable it) or some similar product.

By the way, if you use Add by Barcode, you can check 'Display items after saving', then select all the items, Right-click then from the pop-up menu, use Quick Change to set all the Custom Date column fields to the same date (assuming you got them all at the same time).

The best way to do this is to use one of the Custom Date fields (there are 2 fo them) and update it with the date you bought the items. Then do a Find (or Advanced Find) to find the range of dates you are looking for. The Advanced Find could include the sorting. For Advanced Find, use something like this: Where I.CustomDate1 BETWEEN '2022-01-01' AND '2022-03-31' Order By I.CustomDate1 DESC (If you want to sort in the opposite direction, leave out DESC) If you just do a Find you will need to click on the column heading to sort the Custom Date column. After that, select some or all of the rows, Right-click and from the pop-up menu select Quick Report. Note: Quick Report is (I think) the only way to get a report sorted the way you want. Any of the standard reports will sort by Title/Issue nunber.

What Edition of CB do you have (Archive, Pro, Express, Free)?

I was hoping for an answer as I have a similar (but not the same) problem with the Value Over Time graph. Since I had to export/Import my data to a new database, the graph only shows the most recent update (no history for this database). See first attachment where date range is from 1 Jan 2022 to 4 Mar 2022 (last update). This isn't quite true, as it shows history for the previous update marks but all the values are 0. See second attachment where date range is from 1 Aug 2021 to 4 Mar 2022 (last update). Note that the last '0' value was 10 Nov 2021 was for my old (no longer exits) database. Nothing historical has been saved since then.

Can you describe the steps you take? The option is grayed out until you select (high-light) a row.

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Ah, got it (finally, a little dense sometimes...). I have experienced this before but not quite in the way you problem processed. In my case, whenever there is an error when running Advanced Find (syntax error like misspelled column), the display changes to a Find display (the line below the splitter shows Search Results and has an X box on the right) BUT, it only really displays the last Title lines you were on (which). Your case is a little different in that a valid Comic Type Find when displaying Comics, fails when you are displaying Magazines but change the Find type to Comics. Since the Find type is Comics that is why the last displayed Title information for Comics is displayed. But the real question is Why is it Failing? Sounds like a bug.

Understood. I did say 'Not saying this couldn't be changed...'. I could have added this might be a New Feature suggestion. Possibly to store the info on the last Find for each Type and bring that up to match the Type currently being displayed.

First, this isn't limited to Advanced Find. All the Finds operate the same way. Current behavior. When you run a Find, it remembers (stores) what you last did (and where). When you open a Find again, it restores this information (even if you changed to a different Type in CB. Not saying this couldn't be changed but that is how it is currently set up to operate. By the way, when using Title columns in Advanced find, the first part needs to match the Type you are working with. ComicTitles.AlphabetizedTitle MagazineTitles.AlphabetizedTitle BookTitles.AlphabetizedTitle

If this is possible, the basic steps would be: Export the information from Inducks (no idea how to do this). Import data to a spreadsheet (or a database or just a text file). Clean up data and match to CB columns (Title and Item # especially have to match what CB has). Import to CB. (NOTE: To do this you would need at least the Pro Edition of CB to allow Import) The hardest part is changing the name of the Title and Item # that Inducks has to match the Title and Item # that CB has (the Title may be the same but not always and Item # is probably not the same). Before going further, I will say this may be a lot of work that may have little or no value. It depends on what information Inducks has and how it matches to what CB has. It would be much easier just to enter them directly into CB. If the issues have a Barcode and you have a scanner (or you can type in the barcode number but that is slow), you can use Import by Barcode and enter a lot of comics very quickly. Alternately, if you have a lot of issues for Titles, you can go to that title, and change Qty to 1 (or more if you have multiple copies). This can be done one at a time or Highlight multiple issues then type a number to change all selected issues Qty to that number. If you don't want to do this, you would have to cleanup any exported Inducks data to include the CB Title, Item #, and Condition (at the least for uniqueness) plus any other CB columns that Inducks may have information for. Once cleaned up in the spreadsheet, save to a CSV file (using either a Comma or a Tab as the separator.

The image in the picture on the right is just a sample of how the report will look (the layout but not the contents). The actual report you run will have your name on it.

Since you mention you are a first-timer, here is a suggestion (if you have the disk space). In Setup->Preferences Check 'Automatically backup database when you close the Program' (this may already be checked). Set the Number of backups to 100 (or less is space is a problem). This way, you can go back through the backups to find when something changed. For example, before running an update (if you are not using Sidekick), you can open then close your database to make a backup before the update. After the update, run the Advanced Find to see if something changed. When you noticed something changed unexpectedly, you can go back through the backups and at least determine the date/time it happened.

Can you explain the steps you are taking?

Hold down the SHIFT key while selecting Check for Updates.

If you just want what is in the Master Datebase, one way to do this is: Use Item->Mass Change (or CTRL+M) to set all Notes to nothing (leave the value box blank). Then run (or force a run) of the Update.

Randall, If you have Archive (or I think, Pro) Edition with Advanced Find you can use this to find any issues you own, with a Grading Note and a Condition of NM (you can do an Order By with anything you like or use what I supplied): Where: I.[GradingNotes] > ' ' AND I.Condition = 'NM' AND I.[QtyInStock] >= 1 Order By: I.Title, I.[ItemNumber] PS There may be a few rows with stray 'junk' in the Grading Notes (that you probably don't own).

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Correct. I did a regular search for Storylines and got the same display shown above (basically blank).