Already in Collection message

Is it possible to have an “option” to toggle on or off in settings the notification of “Already in collection” when I scan or manually enter my books. I have a large number of duplicates of books in my collection and it would go much faster if I had the option to turn that notification off. I’m not suggesting it be removed, just given the option. Thanks.

Yes, we are planning to improve the options for handling that “already in collection” situation. This is already on our to-do list. We are thinking about options for:

  • Add it anyway
  • Increase the Quantity of the existing entry
  • Disable the message completely
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Upvoting option 2 on your bullet list.

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I was going to add a topic about this same popup (screen cap below), asking for an “increase quantity” option.
GREAT to hear it is already being looked at!

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Could we not have a 4th option of “Have a option in settings to “toggle” the notification on or off”?

How is that different from the 3rd option?

I guess we are saying the same thing, no worries. I was critizied by others for suggesting this in the old FB post, so I was trying to be clear that it did not need to be “disabled/removed”, but rather a “option” to disable. Number 3 states what I originally asked for and it was widely misunderstood.

I’d also like to add the ability to turn off these pop-ups off too, mostly just for speed purposes. If I’m adding books manually(no barcode) it can take awhile, you usually have to wait for these and the “Added” pop ups to go away.

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Could you explain in greater detail please?

You would want the adding to happen in the background so you can continue to work in the app? Is that what you’re asking?

Precisely!

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Thanks for clarifying!

I’m not sure we can go for that. If you were to be able to add/edit during the adding, you could break/modify fields that are being “written to” while doing that. I understand how it would be nice, but the technical difficulties (or especially problems it could cause) would probably be bigger than the benefits!

Totally understandable! Thanks for clarifying the background stuff.

Huge, mega upvote for increase quantity for this message. Man, that would save me heaps of time. I buy way too much paper! :joy:

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Just wondering if this is still being worked on, it has been almost 2 years now.

We are planning (not working on) to improve the options for handling that “already in collection” situation. This is already on our to-do list. We are thinking about options for:

Add it anyway
Increase the Quantity of the existing entry
Disable the message completely

Sorry if you thought we were actively working on this, we didn’t mean to say that :slight_smile:

It is just on our to-do list for sometime.

Thank you for the clarification.

I have over 55,000 comics scanned into CLZ. I scan in according to long box numbers. Needless to say, I have duplicates. I may have the same comic in 6 different boxes and multiples in 2 of those.

If I had had a wish list for this, the ideal situation would be to always add the comic to the existing entry but when I click on the comic in my list, it would then show me that I have 3 in box 58, 2 in box 119 and 1 in box 3, 18, 67 and 219.

However, just having the option to just turn it off would help me greatly.

It will never work that way, sorry.

It is easier separate entries, which will let you set separate box info.
Or one single entry with the Quantity set.

That is what I thought. But, threw it out there as a wish.