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Gaspeed Posts: 1
1/4/2016
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Can I import a list to my collection?
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netstuffers Administrator Posts: 239
1/5/2016
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Unfortunately, that's not available at this time. It's a very tricky problem but we do have a plan that we hope to try out this year.
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johndimm Posts: 1
5/22/2016
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netstuffers wrote:
Unfortunately, that's not available at this time. It's a very tricky problem but we do have a plan that we hope to try out this year.
Any news? I have 230 comics in this google spreadsheet.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1j8N9DRy1W_tTpY1JRQkZPixH1ELYbk9XR58CqIGjDYs/edit?usp=sharing
It would be so nice to not have to do 230 manual searches to add each comic one by one. The ideal solution: I enter the URL to an online spreadsheet with standard column names, and you add to my collection the closest match for each line. You find the closest match by doing a search using the information in the spreadsheet (title, number, date). There should be some way to indicate your confidence in the match. I would assume the top hit to be wrong some of the time, depending on how I have identified the comics.
edited by johndimm on 5/22/2016
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mothererich Posts: 1
10/5/2016
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Open API? Let us do the work for you. 
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netstuffers Administrator Posts: 239
10/6/2016
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mothererich wrote:
Open API? Let us do the work for you.
Wish it were that simple.
There's a REALLY big problem and a reason why mass import programs are very rare in comics, and that's that the industry as a whole never really settled on a unique identification system for books.
For example, in the spreadsheet posted above, they listed the books "Amazing Spider-man". Well, is that volume 1, 2, or 3? Or is it Volume 1 of the Pocket Books reprint? Because all of those volumes have the exact same title.
So, what about the official book title as listed in the indicia? Those ARE the official titles.... they don't print the official titles based on uniqueness.
How about UPC code? Well, there are a ton of books that don't have UPC codes, or the codes differ depending on where you got them. How can we import variants without UPCs? What about foreign books with different codes? There's no giant database for us to download every UPC and even if there was, we would have trouble knowing where to put the UPCs based on the title problem above.
So we would need an excel sheet to contain the exact name, volume, issue number, UPC, and probably some other data to match EXACTLY what we have in the system, and even then, we'd probably need to display for you what we *think* is the match, and have you verify every single book just to be safe.
It's a toughie.
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netstuffers Administrator Posts: 239
11/8/2016
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I never said impossible, I said tough.
We have a few ways to tackle the problems specific to our database structure, but our first priority is improving this current sites performance and functionality, then we'll tackle mobile apps and import capabilities.
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Rm146 Posts: 1
2/28/2020
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Any progress on this topic?
netstuffers wrote:
I never said impossible, I said tough.
We have a few ways to tackle the problems specific to our database structure, but our first priority is improving this current sites performance and functionality, then we'll tackle mobile apps and import capabilities.
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kds_comics Posts: 652
3/5/2020
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CPG did add the feature to put in a "run" of comics of the same title. Often if you have 5 or more issues in a title that has 20 issues or more - it is quicker to put in a run of every issues, then simply delete the issues you do not have. Sort of working sideways - but you get the same notes, same grade and the same virtual "box" on every comic. This saves a lot of typing!
There is also a significant information security/malware risk for CPG to import anything. I could hide malicious code in the database program and perhaps get a back DOOR in the system. It is currently happening with hospitals and small cities. It is called "ransomware".
I would settle for being able to export by box
Rm146 wrote:
Any progress on this topic?
netstuffers wrote:
I never said impossible, I said tough.
We have a few ways to tackle the problems specific to our database structure, but our first priority is improving this current sites performance and functionality, then we'll tackle mobile apps and import capabilities.
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