Would it be possible to add ‘Variant Description’ to the list of fields that can searched on (folders)?
This would make it so much easier to add some types of tags to a group of comics; i.e. Alex Ross Timeless Variants (where pretty much all the variant descriptions have ‘timeless’ in the variant description), or Virgin Variants (where pretty much all ‘Virgin’ variants have this ins the variant description).
It is currently not possible to group on Variant Description as that field is not a “pick list” field (which is needed to allow grouping on it).
I’m not sure if you also own the CLZ Comics mobile app? If you do, you can group on Variant Description there already, that was actually included by accident (it was originally a bug hah). We’ll likely have it make its way to Comic Connect at some point too.
Thanks for this. I’ll use my mobile to add tags via the variant description then 
The mobile app will sort them but I get a long list with at least 30 results, but can’t add all of them at one time to a tag called “Virgin Covers”. I figured the web app would handle this better but I can’t even sort on that filed in the web app. Any ides or help would be greatly appreciated. Is there an easyier way to do this in the mobile app?
This topic is from 6 months ago.
What exactly would you like to do/achieve? I can likely send instructions, but I’m not sure if you mean sorting, foldering, actually “tags” or looking for a different field?
Let me know
We would like to be able to assign a tag to multiple books at one time.
Say for instance, I want to tag all of my incentive covers. I can search for incentive in the variant description view but can not assign a tag to ALL of them at once. I have to individually assign them the tag…which is very tedious. See screenshot.
I now understand that you’re calling foldergrouping “sorting”
For us (and this is not a lesson or something, but just for future reference) it is like so:
Sorting: the way a list sorts from top to bottom. For instance, alphabetically.
Foldering/Grouping/Foldergrouping: well what you have in your screenshot. The icon is a folder, so easy to remember!
Indeed, you can not “tap and select” folders (only series folders), to multi select and then use Edit Multiple.
You can tap and hold on individual comics and then use “Action > Edit” on them to modify 1 field for all of them.
Perhaps you can tap the ALL folder, then search for “incentive” and that gives you a list of all comics that have the word “incentive” somewhere in them (but that could also be the “description” - so it might not be as accurate). Then tap and hold on one, tap all of them, then Action > Edit > pick the TAGS field, and add your tag to it.
I’ve taken note that you would like to be able to select folders and use Edit Multiple on a folder selection!
Thanks, but your suggestion doesn’t work either. After selecting the ALL COMICS folder, the search is only looking at series titles or numbers and such, but is not searching on variant descriptions, so typing “incentive” in search under ALL COMICS only comes back with 3 books as results. No idea why because I have about 90 incentives that are reflected as such in their variant description. I was hoping there was an another way to accomplish this. Thanks for your help.
Indeed that field isn’t searched with the search top right - my apologies.
I recommend just editing those 90 then (will be a bit of work indeed) and then just make sure to keep doing that whenever you add a new one.
