I want to be able to sort on specific price purchased values.
All books I paid $5 for, for instance.
If I choose No Folders then touch the AZ button on the right there is a Purchase Price field there, but it only sorts low-high or high-low. This doesn’t help me.
In the desktop software, I could create my own custom sorts by writing a recipe so to speak with Boolean logic rules. (Pre-sets)
This allowed me to look at a specific box and see what books had prices, what books didn’t or exactly what books I paid specific amounts for.
This detail is no longer available in the CLZ mobile app and something I greatly miss.
If it is in the mobile app then I just can’t find it and could you point it out to me how to do this in the mobile app?
There is no Price purchased foldering (it would create folders for every price purchased, so a folder for 1,95 and 2,10, and 5, and 4,12, and 4,13, etc. if you’d have comics with that as Price Purchased).
Sorting on purchase price is possible, and then you could scroll to $5, and see all books like that.
But, we’re open to suggestions, we could make the folder system for Price Purchased work like, a folder for anything below 1,01, and a folder for 1-2, 2-3, etc.
What would you want/expect from a Price Purchased folder exactly? Folders for every purchase price that you filled in? Or grouped in ranges?
(and what is the purpose of finding all comics purchased for $5? (just asking so I can understand the usecase)
if you could make it a searchable field, where we could put our own price in. (Create a pre-set like we had in the desktop software),
Have a pre determined range of prices with a drop down if necessary or a range of prices we have to fill in would also be acceptable. eg: FROM $x — TO — $x I can make almost anything work just as long as we can search it.
There are a few reasons for my suggestion.
Want to find all books with missing prices or prices with a default of zero
Tax purposes. When going to sell, the IRS in the US uses a cost basis, so we can subtract the original cost and associated fees (eg: grading) from the sale price to get a value to declare - Goes hand in hand with item 1.
I want to thin out the collection and find books that I originally paid a certain price for but haven’t really gone up in value since. Say $1, $3 & $5. - Now I can pull all those particular books and create my own $1, $3 & $5 boxes and take those to a show. No need to price books individually to see the sale price.
A Purchase Price Group. A little outside the purview, but say for instance we purchase a lot from an estate sale, it would devide the books evenly to fill in a value. Ex: we buy a lot of 5 books for $10, it fills in the purchase price for each book as $2.
Item’s 1&2 are the most important but just making it a searchable field would be a great help for me.
You said sorting is possible, but you only allow sorting from low-high or high-low.
Doesn’t really help when there’s 10,000 books in the database. I’m using CLZ on my phone so I was scrolling for 15-20 minutes, stopping to check then scrolling some more to find the $5 prices. Then I was stuck. Trying to group those books together was impossible because there’s no way to just select those particular books without going back and start scrolling again.
I need a specific selectable option. Not a generic low/high - high/low option.
I think the best way out for this would be for the mobile app and the web app to either get some kind of very extensive filter screen where youc an just add fields and make ranges, and save them as presets (a BIG feature)
Expand the Folder Grouping (not sorting from high to low), with:
folders per amount: with a [none] folder, and then like any comics between 0-1 dollar would be in the 0-0.99 folder, and 1-2 dollar would be in the 1-1.99 dollar folder. And so on.
An expansion of the folder grouping with amounts would be fine, I don’t need rhe 1-5 grouping if the others were available. I like that you anticipated “none” then “0-1”.
Ideally, the BIG feature with the ability to put in my own ranges and be able to make my own pre-sets would be best but if the folder grouping is easier for you, then I can work with that also.
Yeah creating your own pre-sets is like, very advanced: having to create an understandable user interface, on a mobile device, which incorporates a field chooser, then a list of options with them (starts with, ends with, contains, exact match, etc.), then connection between a second line, like “AND” and “OR”, and be able to group those too.
We had this on Windows and it was very convoluted, and almost always needed explanation
But it would be a major big feature if we can make it work cool and understandable at some point.
So yeah, foldergrouping is easier for this specific use case! I have it on our suggestion list.
What I was originally thinking of is simpler, more like what you would see at your bank when looking for certain transactions.
All you get is a box with a blank on the left labeled FROM and a blank on the right labeled TO. You put in the range you want and those books or transactions that fit the range are displayed. However, I’m no developer so the box might be easy to show but the code behind it might be big. I don’t know.
If folders are easier to build then I can make that work as well.
The thing is, for your situation that would be nice indeed, but we’re dealing with heaps of other (types of) fields where users would like more powerful filtering tools - so if we build this, we would be going all the way, and not just work on a value range filter (no offense here or anything, just explaining our side )
