it will be nice to have ability to add multiple catalogs (External #) for one stamp. Because there many different catalogs. For example:

Worldwide: Scott, Stanley Gibbons, Michel, Minkus.
Regional: Dallay (France and ex-colonies), Anfils (Spain), Brusden-White (Australia), Facit (Scandinavia), Fischer (Poland), ISC catalog (Brunei, Malaysia & Singapore), Ma (China), Sakura (Japan), Sassone (Italy), Yang (Hongkong), Yvert et Tellier (France), Zumstein (Switzerland & Europe)

Maybe more

Yes, same situation related to coins: Standard Catalog of World Coins aka "Krause catalog" are one of many catalogs. For example, I'm using also German "Welt Munzkatalog".

However, I know what developers will answer: use custom fields for this feature.

Isn't it?

Yes, the fast answer will be in usage of the custom fields. But here the question is more complex than it seems. We have only 5 custom fields per "standard" collectible. In our case it is stamp or Jim's coins. But there are much more than 5 fields here in list of catalogs for stamps. I'm not sure that they all are important for tracking in collection at once. Of course such information in these possible fields will be useful - but user should decide which 5.



Another solution can be in usage of the custom collectible. With user defined collectible you can track unlimited number of fields per collectible. But disadvantage of this way will be that currently all these fields will be placed on one dialog for editing/viewing purpose. It may look terrible to scroll every time to get required info...



Yes, we need a mechanism to group custom collectible fields. But at current step of the custom collectible development we can't guarantee that division of user defined fields on several tabs (groups) will be done soon. So, the final decision should be made only by user. Of course later (when this feature will be done), there will be no difference in usability for user according selected by him way.

What about me, I'll prefer custom collectible with tracking of all possible fields in spite of how many they are. Information is a first and main part of any collection!

japanese:Article about manual years calculations is still in progres. I hope I will finish it in nearest time.

A brief description of the whole process how to obtain and calculate an year in Japanese calendar is already available on our site at “Japanese Calendar” article (in English and in Russian languages).

Wow! At last…

Any news about such feature? Nobody has replied?

tamako

Also will be nice to see in donators list information extra columns for sum prices: items cost and real items cost. It could be very informative...

Thanks for good suggestion. This small but very informative feature will be added in up coming CS 3.51 release (end of this week).

Nice! It is useful for me, but in my collection not all items are provided with prices, so sometimes statistics is not correct. Is it possible to mark values of incomplete statistics?

For example, I have 2 coins from one donator: "Coin 1" with price $1 and real price $1.5 and "coin 2" with provided price $2 and no real price. In statistics I see price = $3 (1+2) and real price = $1.5 (1.5+0). It is not good, because real price is not valid.

I think it will be good to mark real price somehow: ~ sign or with changed color. It will indicate that this value is not real.

With newer release of the CollectionStudio 3.51 a lot of our users have suggested many important changes for next Studio' releases by e-mails. Here I’ll mention some of their suggestions with some developers’ comments.

Serge, thank you for your reply and comments, it's always nice to know that you're listening to your users.

Custom collection already uses a list of custom fields, so it doesn’t require any other (5 custom fields) fields which are available for "standard" collectibles.

Serge, it'd be useful though having the custom fields activated for contacts and countries, since the custom feature refers only to collection itself (that's actually what I meant). For contacts for example, we (sand collectors) love sometimes to record the "reliability" of our trading partners using a kind of rating system: is he/she a serious collector, how's the quality of traded samples, is replying fast and many others... All these could be of course recorded as comments, the only problem is with displaying all this info at once, and that's where the custom fields might help.

Well, wish you all a Happy New Year. May that 2009 bring many new items in your (custom or standard) collections!

I am looking for help to catalog my Zippo collection, any help would be appreciated. I have nearly 400+ zippos and it would help to be able to keep track of them with a program. Thanks

With our custom collectible feature it is very simple and easy to track unlimited number of items per collection. And it doesn't matter what types of zippos do you collect. Just follow instructions in our online help "How to create my own custom collection". If you have questions or comments, please post them; We will try to help you further. and... Happy New Year!

With newer release of the CollectionStudio 3.51 a lot of our users have suggested many important changes for next Studio' releases by e-mails. Here I’ll mention some of their suggestions with some developers’ comments.

… In CS there are really useful features that I want. Also, I want to print or export to a format where I can see the pictures I’ve added for my collection. For example, export as HTML or something like that...

We will add this feature in next release. So it will be possible to export into HTML with or without images. (Separate options will be available in extensions filter during filename selection)

When I send to my friends a specific list of coins or print it for my private usage, I use “Print Screen” option, instead of the in-build Export tool, because it doesn’t support Russian letters in comments. It’s not so useful, it’s incontinent

Thank you very much for international support! We will continue to support different interface languages and support of foreign languages in any input, including mentioned here “Comments” field.

Could you please tell me how can I add flags images for countries that are not listed in the CollectionStudio ver. 3.50? I am talking about such countries as South Vietnam, French Indochina etc.

Unfortunately we have no such ability to use external flags for countries. But we will try to add it in a nearest future. With Image feature of the item in CS, we will add additional image types which will be used for such purposes.

I did a detailed test for custom collections that I use for tracking sands and below there are some my remarks and comments:
1. Custom fields not working at all for custom collections

Custom collection already uses a list of custom fields, so it doesn’t require any other (5 custom fields) fields which are available for "standard" collectibles.

2. Images properties: please allow more entries than “Face” and “Back” and “Face and back” for image type. One can add a new status for a current image, but this status disappears when trying to attribute it to other images”

We will check it in next release.

3. It would be nice to have country flags also for “country fields” in custom collections, as well as for contacts;

We will add them in next release.

4. It would be nice to display more info about contacts, e.g. City, Address etc.

There are a lot of fields that are inaccessible in the main list. All of them should be used in the list – it is an our main aim for next 3.52 release.

Thank you. I will register bit later

At last! Thanks. I hope everything will be ok now!