I’m liking today’s update with the Toys-To-Life stuff and the separation of Games/Hardware/Toys into separate collection tabs.
However, I can’t seem to move my existing hardware entries into a hardware collection. When I check them and select the ‘Move to Other Collection’ option, it only lets me select a different Games collection.
Any way we can get the ability to migrate those entries? I’ve got 36 existing hardware entries, which isn’t a ton but it’d be nice to not have to re-do them.
I want to second this, as I have a few thousand(!) Hardware items to move… It’s not viable to redo manually, even if it were just 50 items to be honest. Note that leaving them in the “My game collection” would be problematic for many reasons, last but not least because the “Platform / Hardware” filter was removed from the game collection options, and it can’t be recreated using the included fields.
This exact same point goes for my existing Amiibo’s… Having to port over 70+ of these manually from the current game’s collection to the Toys collection would be close to impossible.
I can’t stress enough why not being able to move existing hardware in bulk would be a product / deal breaking issue for me and very probably many other users.
For hardware/game combo’s:
Use the split collection button in Settings!
We made a split collection button for just this case - but the Web version just doesn’t have a popup showing you we have that button. You can split them automatically.
I recommend doing that.
Click the menu top left, then go to Settings.
You should see (if you have combined collections) a “split collections” button.
Do that.
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As for amiibo’s added “as games”… indeed, a game cannot “convert” into an amiibo. That would yield dangerous and weird results if you accidentally were to be able to do that (if you would make a Mario game into an amiibo you’d lose a lot of data on the game which you can’t get back) - Can’t be done.
I recommend using the menu top left, then just add 70 amiibos and go from there.
(and remove the “games” you created for your amiibos).
In the menu top left, then settings, then click Split Collections, and you’re done!
That’s exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!
FYI, I am running into a bug: If I rename the hardware collection that it created, it seems to convert it to a Games collection (it has the little Pac-Man icon next to it and when I go to add something, it shows game results).
Going into settings and clicking the button again turns it back into a hardware collection.
Seems to happen if I manually create a hardware or toy collection and then rename it as well so I don’t think it’s related to the split collections function.
Indeed, that is a bug!
We’ve fixed it now, can you check if it works correctly for you now as well?
Looks good now!
Hi! Thanks for clarifying. I have 37 Amiibo added as Hardware, with a lot of additional info about where I got it, links, notes, etc. So after splitting games en HW they are now in the HW collection. Having to recreate that would be horrifying. This could be fixed by allowing to map fields while copying entries from a games or hardware collection.
As somebody that has been your client for so many years and has put in the time to use your software on a daily basis to its fullest extent, I really want to urge to offer me and other uses in similar situations a migration pathway that doesn’t require us to do things manually.
Cheers and thanks
So you have 37 amiibo, and you’ve entered information in fields that you wish to transfer?
Can you sum up for me which fields you’ve entered because not all game related fields are in amiibos, and I understand your request on making them amiibo and a map tool - which sounds logical if indeed the recommended way for amiibo was adding them as hardware and we provided a way to do that - but that is not something we actively advertised (and thus had to create a way of dealing with this.
Again, I understand you’ve chosen to do this and it worked, and your need for that tool, of course!
However, programming something for your situation will likely take out 3 weeks programming time on other features, excluding testing, for a “one time job, ever”, for maybe… 10, 20 people who might have “used” hardware or game items for amiibo.
Another idea: will take you probably about 1 hour (maybe 2) in total:
Have your old amiibos entries (hardware items) open on 1 screen/tablet/phone
And then adding the 37 amiibos as new on a different screen, and after adding, edit them per 1 and enter the data again in them.
Sorry for the absurdly late reply, I absolutely missed your message. I appreciate you taking it seriously and offering some suggestions. I’m usually quite thorough when I add anything to my CLZ databases, so it would include:
I could indeed just open two browser tabs with CLZ open and do it manually, but that would be very inconvenient, especially given the little time I have for my hobbies lately. That said, I totally understand that 3 weeks of programming would not be a reasonable ask!
The quick & dirty way would be to create a (e.g. Python) parsing script, instead of a full-fledged interface, that processes a backup file, e.g. detecting relevant entries based on “Hardware Type” (in my case I have always used the value “Amiibo” in that field) or a different field in case of people that added it as a Game (e.g. the “Platform” field). This might be daunting to some users and feel like a bad idea to you and your team, due to the chance of f-ing up somebody’s database without putting in enough time to guarantee it works reliably, so yeah..
Anyway, just a thought. Thanks again and keep up the great work!