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To me it seems that batch editing is mostly helpful if you know, roughly,
what you have--and that's reasonable with a relatively small collection like
yours. I'm slowly working my way through a collection of over 30K cards,
because I honestly don't know what we have.

Some of the results have been amusing though--like finding 49 copies of the
Order of Leitbur in one box...

Regina Cross

"The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began
Now far ahead the Road has gone
And I must follow if I can..."
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Subject: [CardVault] Digest Number 255


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There are 4 messages in this issue.

Topics in this digest:

1. Data entry for inventory
From: "matt_childs" <matt_childs@yahoo.com>
2. Re: Re: Winds of Change Reprints [Addendum]
From: Luke Croteau <pyros@wizard.com>
3. Re: Digest Number 254
From: Ramón Peña <kunimon@wanadoo.es>
4. Re: Data entry for inventory
From: Rob Bowes <rob@wolflair.com>


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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 18:30:43 -0000
From: "matt_childs" <matt_childs@yahoo.com>
Subject: Data entry for inventory

Has anyone come up with a really slick way of putting in an entire
collection to the inventory piece? I have about 2500 cards (I know
that isn't an overhwelming amount) and I would like to put them into
CV, but I'd rather do it in a batch update something rather than
just do individual data entry.

Thanks,

Matt



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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 10:55:05 -0700
From: Luke Croteau <pyros@wizard.com>
Subject: Re: Re: Winds of Change Reprints [Addendum]

>If it was reprinted in gold with a 3 FV, then by the MRP rule, it
>would now be
>a 3 FV again.

Yeah. Forgot to add that part to the end of my shpiel. hehe

-Luke



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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 22:17:42 +0200
From: Ramón Peña <kunimon@wanadoo.es>
Subject: Re: Digest Number 254


> Everything else you said was correct, but I think Sensei also have
> faction traits, no?

Actually, they don't. Rather, they have a list limiting the factions
that may play that particular sensei. So, Sensei are NEVER a Shadowlands
or a NINJA card, neither do the traits printed of them carry those
traits over (as they would if they were traits).

OTOH, I don't think it's worth if to create a new field for Sensei, so
using the Faction field seems intuitive.

-Kuni Mon


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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 13:35:41 -0700
From: Rob Bowes <rob@wolflair.com>
Subject: Re: Data entry for inventory

Have you looked at the "Batch Edit" mechanism provided within Card Vault?
It's designed to do exactly what you're looking for. It's referenced in the
Tutorial, outlined in the Manual, and accessible via the Tools menu within
the Inventory Manager. There is also complete help available on the
mechanism via the Help button on the Batch Edit form. So you should find
plenty of info on the mechanism within the product, but feel free to post
here if you still have questions.

Hope this helps,
Rob

At 06:30 PM 8/21/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>Has anyone come up with a really slick way of putting in an entire
>collection to the inventory piece? I have about 2500 cards (I know
>that isn't an overhwelming amount) and I would like to put them into
>CV, but I'd rather do it in a batch update something rather than
>just do individual data entry.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Matt


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Firstly, I'll be using Magic: The Gathering for all the examples below, although I use CV for many different collectible games.


It seems to me that batch editing would be most useful if you keep collector's sets (1 of every card) or playsets (4 of every card). As someone that has a lot of cards, but from all over the place, you might find it easier to just use the normal inv tool. It WILL take a while, but once you have them all in there, your life gets a lot easier. (Thanks Wolflair:-) One way might want to do it is to use filters to sort down to a smaller number of cards according to how you have your cards sorted in your collection. For instance, I have my cards sorted by Rarity, then Set, then Color, then Alphabetically. So I filtered for just rares and then just blue and evntered all my blue rare, then black, then green, etc. Then whenn I got to uncommons that I have many more of, I filtered for uncommons form a specific set and then entered them all. And all the while, you can also have them sorted by color, or collector number, or whatever order you keep them in so you don't have to keep scrolling up and down. As you can guess, the filters and soprting mechanism can save you a lot of time while entering your inventory.

Now the cardinal rule: ALWAYS keep your inv updated. Anytime you make a trade, lose a card, buy new cards, etc. Make a note on a piece of paper if its a few cards or, if a lot, keep them seperate until you can enter them into CV. This may sound like a hastle, but by the third time you build a deck with CV saying you have all the cards, and then you try acutally BUILD the deck and realize you traded that third Scion, you start to understand that upkeep is important.


At any rate, CardVault is great and you will really like it once you download the latest tourney deck, when CardVault tells you if you have all the cards oyu need for it, lets you easily switch out the cards you don't have for replacements, lets you know if the deck is still viable in that particular tournament format, and lets you check out the new deck's percentage of land to see if you need to add that other painland. CardVault is a great tool.



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----- Original Message -----
From: rcross
To: cardvault@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 9:13 AM
Subject: [CardVault] RE: batch editing


To me it seems that batch editing is mostly helpful if you know, roughly,
what you have--and that's reasonable with a relatively small collection like
yours. I'm slowly working my way through a collection of over 30K cards,
because I honestly don't know what we have.

Some of the results have been amusing though--like finding 49 copies of the
Order of Leitbur in one box...

Regina Cross






Message: 1
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 18:30:43 -0000
From: "matt_childs" <matt_childs@yahoo.com>
Subject: Data entry for inventory

Has anyone come up with a really slick way of putting in an entire
collection to the inventory piece? I have about 2500 cards (I know
that isn't an overhwelming amount) and I would like to put them into
CV, but I'd rather do it in a batch update something rather than
just do individual data entry.

Thanks,

Matt


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If you have your cards ordered based on some sort of criteria, then you can
configure CV to mirror that criteria. You can filter and sort the cards in
CV to correspond with the card in your physical collection. Then you can
use CV pretty quickly.

If you collected some sets very heavily (which 49 Order of Leitburs would
imply), then you can also just declare that you have at least X (pick a
number you like) of all the commons for that set. Use a filter to select
just the commons from that set and then use Batch Edit to set the quantity
owned for those cards. You can do the same for other sets, and you can even
do the same for uncommons if you have a solid number of them. This will
definitely speed up the process.

Hope this helps,
Rob

At 08:13 AM 8/22/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>To me it seems that batch editing is mostly helpful if you know, roughly,
>what you have--and that's reasonable with a relatively small collection like
>yours. I'm slowly working my way through a collection of over 30K cards,
>because I honestly don't know what we have.
>
>Some of the results have been amusing though--like finding 49 copies of the
>Order of Leitbur in one box...


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