Fastest way to remove issues from Want list

[glennsimpson]

I was at a show this weekend, and tried out CLZ on iPad for rolling around through my Wish list, and it was like 95% perfect. I wanted to see if there were suggestions for how to close up that last 5%.

The goal: Quickly remove books from the Wish List so that I don’t accidentally buy it twice in the same day. However, I want the books to have some temporary quality to them so that I can isolate everything I got that day in the Web version later (just to make final tweaks) before fully adding them to the collection.

What I did: I “added” each book as “On Order”, thinking it would remove it from Want List. It did ask me for most of them if I wanted to change it from Want to On Order.

What went wrong: It’s a bit hard to tell but I think the problem was that if the book in the Want List was a different variant (like newstand vs. direct) than what I bought, then it didn’t take it off the list. Not sure what the little asterisks next to books in the “Want:” section mean, but I think that’s what happened? So I did end up buying (or almost buying) a couple of duplicates because they were different variants. But I could swear there were others that were On Order but still showed up when “On Wish List” was selected.

So what I need: Rather than “adding” the books, I guess what I need is a) the fastest way to find the existing book in the Wish List category so that I can then change it from Wish List to another category and b) determine which category that should be. I already use “not in collection” for something else (books I need to not buy because I have the trade, things like that).

I notice that scan by cover is not an option when just searching in the existing collection, it only seems to be available for adding new books - is this a feature that is coming?

Is searching by barcode (which, if it can’t find it, hopefully would be the cue that it’s a different variant), then opening it, and then changing it be my best option? And what can I change it to that will remove it from the Wish List but not do anything too severe - I played around with Sold and that seemed to really hide the book more than I wanted to.

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@glennsimpson

What went wrong: It’s a bit hard to tell but I think the problem was that if the book in the Want List was a different variant (like newstand vs. direct) than what I bought, then it didn’t take it off the list.

If you have variant B on your wish list, and in the Add Comics by scanning the Cover screen you scan and find variant A, then variant A will not “show” that you have “another variant of this comic” on your wish list or in your collection.

I have a couple of ideas on that for the Add Comics screen, but nothing definitive yet.

@glennsimpson

Not sure what the little asterisks next to books in the “Want:” section mean,

The asterisks in the Want section at the top of a comic series list inside your own collection mean that that comic is marked as “on order”.

@glennsimpson

I notice that scan by cover is not an option when just searching in the existing collection, it only seems to be available for adding new books - is this a feature that is coming?

Indeed, that is not possible on own collection. We have some ideas on that, but nothing definitive here either - this is actually quite hard to accomplish locally on a device. So, no promises

@glennsimpson

Is searching by barcode (which, if it can’t find it, hopefully would be the cue that it’s a different variant), then opening it, and then changing it be my best option?

If you search by barcode locally in your own collection (tap search button top right, then tap barcode icon), but you’re scanning a different barcode than you have on your wish list, nothing will be found. The local search is an exact search.

@glennsimpson

And what can I change it to that will remove it from the Wish List but not do anything too severe - I played around with Sold and that seemed to really hide the book more than I wanted to.

Sold or On Order for your specific situation would be fast (as you can tap the collection status icon in the details panel to instantly modify it.

You could use the Collection Status filter in your local database to only show “Sold” comics and then edit them later to what you want, and put them back to In Collection then.

Alternatively you could, if you find the comic, move it to another collection.

Or tap it, tap edit, tap personal, and add a tag to it. More taps, but that is the most clean way.

Probably not exactly what you’re looking for, but that is all I can think of right now.

[glennsimpson]

You confirmed a few things that are actually a great help, so thank you!