I want to add a note to the Notes on a bunch of issues. If I use bulk edit, is it going to add the content or replace any existing notes with just the new content?
It is going to replace existing notes with just the new content.
Some other fields do have the ability to only add/only remove/only replace, like the Tags field.
Perhaps you can use that?
Yeah, Tags is where I currently have the information but it’s not information I use often so was hoping to move it somewhere else.
It’s a brief code “NMJ”, which is short for “I have opened this newsstand book up and verified it is not a Mark Jewelers”, lol. So that later when I begin to doubt, I will reassure myself.
@CLZ_AJ @CLZ_Alwin - has there been any update to this? I, too, have a bunch of comics where I would like to “append” to the notes field in bulk instead of replacing pre-existing notes across all those books. I can’t find a way to do it right now.
@wadewilson this is still on our to-do list. Can I ask what you would want to add to your existing notes when using edit multiple?
Have you considered using tags, or creating a Custom Field instead for what you want to add to existing notes?
I was going to add a few sentences about the situation under which I purchased some comics. However, I already have the order information (eBay, online vendor, etc.) in the notes. I could imagine putting the order numbers into a custom field. But I’ve been tracking that all in notes for now. I just checked, and Notes is not a field allowed to be a source in the Transfer Field Data utility. Even if it were, I suppose I would need to run some kind of transform since I did not simply put the order number but a string with spaces and details. Ultimately, I wanted to track when I bought in specific ways. For example, I’ve bought both in person at Midtown Comics locations as well as from the Midtown Comics website. I wanted to be able to see that and so the notes have the website and order number noted for those purchases. Again, those things could be split into distinct custom fields, but that would now be a big lift. If you had an API, I could easily do this programmatically (extract from notes, transform the data, insert transformed data into a number of custom fields, remove the notes info once the new data is confirmed to be inserted correctly).
But that’s all the data that is currently in the notes. There were a cross section of comics bought for a very specific personal reason that I was going to add in the notes, but I did not because I realized it would overwrite those order details notes.
@CLZ_AJ - I had another thought. What if I created the customer fields (one would be indicating online versus in store and the other would be an order number), took a full backup (which creates the XML file, the programmatically manipulated the backup to extract the fields from the notes and change the field values in the customer fields, and then imported that backup? Would that work? Would I need to import into a second collection or would the new values simply overwrite the old ones on import?
I strongly advice not to do stuff like XML modification
That would be entirely at your own risk. You might mess up your database completely.
Also if you use the mobile app you’d have to do fresh downsyncs from Cloud.
Understood. I do tech for a living so I understand how strange things can be behind the scenes in any app. So I’ll def take your advice.
Would love a solution, though. I’ll wait to see what you come up with.
The thing that is on our ideas list now would be to add to notes, at the bottom of the existing notes (much like “transfer field data” can do in CLZ Web).