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Details View and Notes

June 5th, 2009 Leave a comment Go to comments

We just rolled out a new feature to the Zistle main site! Many of you have asked for a way to annotate cards in your collections, so we added a new view type.  If you are viewing or editing your collection you will now notice a “details” view option is available.  If you select that it will show you your results that look like this:

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In addition to being able to edit your collection like the other views, in details view you can add and view notes that you have put on your cards.  If you click “edit note” you will get an input box that you can enter your notes into

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If you click save then your note will be attached to that card

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So notes will allow you to store information specific to your cards for you to see.  A few things to note about notes:

  1. Right now you can only use this view on your own collections
  2. If you search while viewing your collection you will search over your notes
  3. If you move the quantity of cards to 0 you will lose any notes attached to those cards

Enjoy and if you have any suggestions for improvements we would love to hear them!

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  • skoormit

    “If you search while viewing your collection you will search over your notes”

    Oh my goodness that is a fantastic idea. Now I can keep up with which cards I have set aside for specific people in trade. Among so many other things. Awesome.

  • http:shoeboxlegends.blogspot.com Shane

    Awesome! I’ve been waiting for this, thanks!!!

  • http://marksephemera.blogspot.com/ Mark Aubrey

    If you hit the return key it will ‘carriage return’ during editing, but the final result will be all on one line.

    The hack around this is to add the html code of line break at the end of a line.

    Less than br Greater than

    This makes it look pretty.

  • http://www.zistle.com josh

    Good point, I’ll update that. And in the future I’m going to strip out any HTML, its kind of a huge security bug (though only if you want to do mean things to yourself) :)

  • Neil

    Great Addition with the details and notes….One more thing i noticed when setting up the card info you should add extra team fields for example I’m inputting my frank gore collection as we speak and I have a league leader card with frank gore and tiki barber on the same card I am unable to set up both giants and 49ers so I have to pick one now if i go and search my collection by NY Giants this card will never show just an Idea

  • http://www.zistle.com ashley

    Hey Neil–yeah we know that multi-team is a problem. Since some cards will have up to four teams on the card, it is not an easy problem to solve. Having four drop-downs could be really confusing for people. One thought is that we could have a ‘multi-team’ option and if that is selected, we could have a section where you could add the teams so at least it would show up on search results and it could appear in detail view.

  • http://www.zistle.com josh

    @josh
    This is now fixed. It should respect your line breaks and all that fun stuff. If you’re using Google Chrome is may act a little quirky if you repeatedly save and edit the same card without navigating away….

  • Neil

    Ashley instead of four drop down why can’t you just have the one drop down and if you need to add an extra team you can have the link like you guys have to add a new subset but it’ll just add a second drop down and if you click a again a third don’t know how realistic it is to do i’m no computer geniues. I’m a player collector so i’ll search by name where as a team collector might have a problem where if he types Steelers all the steeler cards he has labeled “Multi-Team” would not show. Just a thought but great job with the site.

  • Jim

    Great job guys! One suggestion… when we are adding cards to the library and there is the option to “Add this card to your collection”… is there anyway for you to add the Notes text input box there as well? I’ve been using the Notes feature to label where I am storing the cards… so when I add a new card to the library, I have to take an extra step to navigate back to that card and add the Notes in. Would save a lot of time if we can enter it directly.

    Thanks… keep up the great work. This is all very exciting!

  • Jim

    I think this may have been mentioned before… can we also have another text box for “external view” to facilitate trading? So, we could label our cards with the condition and any flaws as well.

  • http://helpendthestrike.com/story.php?title=how-can-i-get-a-copy-of-my-credit-report Hermine

    Great blog you got here…keep up the good work.