First of all - FANTASTIC job on the new Custom Fields feature! What a great new addition! I just used it to create a “Grading Notes” text field. For years I’ve kept a spreadsheet listing 30 or so comics with missing panels and pages, and now I have all that in the custom field!
My question: is there a simple way to export data just containing the comic, issue, and the new custom field? I just want a backup before I delete my spreadsheet! I’m thinking either Print to PDF, Backup/Restore, or Export to CSV would do the trick but wanted to ask the experts what would be the best approach!
Thanks again for a great new feature! Now I’ve got to think of other ways to use it …
Thank you for your kind words! Good to hear you like the new feature
You can use any export you like for a backup: the CSV/TXT and PDF options all include a button to choose which fields you wish to export, including all custom fields.
Using the “Backup” method, it will be in a format that you can’t really use, it is merely a ZIP file that you can use to “Restore” your database in CLZ Comics Web if things go wrong.
Sidenote:
You mention you created the field “Grading Notes” - but did you know that on the value tab you actually have a built in field for grader notes?
Ahh thank you @CLZ_AJ ! somehow I missed that on that value tab. I also see where I can manage visible columns in the report. Thank you very much for the tips!
Any chance we could get the same fields choice when exporting to XML? I use that quite a bit for downstream tooling, and only need a small subset of the total data.
I don’t think that’s going to be on the roadmap to be honest. But, if you’re good with XML and what you use it for, I’m sure it’s probably easy to write some code yourself to strip the XML after you export it perhaps.
That’s what I do now, it’s just overkill to generate and download the entire 86MB file (and growing) just to strip out 95% of it. (Luckily it’s easy to do.)
