Filtered Games Screen Overview

Games screen

This screen displays all Games that matched the filter requested.


For each Game you can see:

  • Title of the Game - top line
  • The Rating
  • The Game Image (if list images are enabled)
  • The Series Name and Number
  • The Release Date
  • The Author
  • The Shelf Name
  • Icons for tags and if loaned (if icons enabled)

Menu/Actions

multimulticancel
Multi Selection
addadd
Add
addscan & add
Scan & Add
addscan
Scan One
addrename
Rename
addupdate
Update
addlookup
Lookup
adddelete
Delete
shareexportexport
Share/Import/Export
searchsearch
Search
settingssettings
Settings
helphelp
Help & Info

Multi select items (long press)
multi   multi

Change into multi mode and back out again

Select/deselect All Items
multi

Select all Items or select no Items


Add
add
add

Add Game

items add new dialog

You can add (type) a new Shelf

You can start the Edit Details Screen to add a new Game

You can type a Game title or a Barcode to add it to the current shelf immediately:

add new Game dialog

You can Find & Add Games by Title or Series or Console


Scan & Add
scan & add
scan & add

Repeatedly scans a Barcode and adds it to the current shelf

If a Barcode already exists, a new Game will not be added

An information lookup will be triggered for each new item scanned (in the background)

See the Scanning Page for more details on scanning barcodes


Scan
scan
scan

Scans a Barcode then displays the Edit Details Screen

An information lookup will be triggered as soon as the Edit Details Screen is displayed

See the Scanning Page for more details on scanning barcodes


Home
home
home

Assign this view out to to the Home Screen as one of the shortcut views

If you select one of the random lists, then a set of random Games will be shown on the Home Screen

home menu


Rename
rename

Changes the name of the Game

rename item dialog


Quick Update
update
update

Quick Update Games, as the menu option

You will be prompted for what to update:

quick update dialog


Share/Import
share
export

Starts the export or import process
or starts Connect to other device process

export import menu


Search
search
search

Opens the Search Screen or searches for Games in various ways

See the Search Page for more details
find dialog


List View
sort

Switches the view between List or Grid mode

grid size

Note you will need 'Images Visible In the List' enabled in Settings Screen to see images.

The title and the series number will be displayed if no image is available,
custom colors will only be seen if there is no image.

This is the same as choosing the size in Settings Screen

If you have 'Individual Settings' enabled then this will be remembered for this view only

grid view


Sort
sort

Select the order the Games are displayed:

sort dialog

Series: Sorts by the Game Series name and number

Title: Sorts by the Game Title

Series/Title: Sorts by a combination of Series (if set, otherwise Title), Series Number

the series text is cleaned before sorting - removing 'a', 'the' etc.

This is a good choice when not all Games have a Series

Console: Sorts by the Console

Released Date: Sorts by the Released Date

Rating: Sorts by the Rating(if field is visible)

Genre: Sorts by the Genre (if field is visible)

Sequence: Sorts by the Sequence (if field is visible)

The list will then be further sorted by Series/Title as appropriate


Lookup All Info
scan out
lookup

This will check each Game and attempt to fill any missing information

You will first need to select which Games to update:

what to update dialog

updating dialog


Reload Missing Images
reload

This will check each Game to see if it's image is present, if not it will attempt to download the image

This is a good way of reloading the images after an Import

updating dialog


Settings
settings
settings

Starts the Settings Screen


Help
settings
settings

Starts the Help Screen



Item(s) Selected Menu

Edit Game

Opens the Edit Details Screen, to edit the Game


Rename Game

Changes the name of the selected Game:

rename Game dialog


Quick Update

Quickly update any tag field and the loaned field:

quick update dialog

You can also see who has been loaned a Game and return it:

quick update dialog


Change Shelf

Quickly move the selected Game to a different shelf:

change shelf dialog

You can also type the name of a new Shelf using the 'New Shelf' button


Lookup info

Lookup missing info for this Game

The update is much faster over a wifi connection:

updating dialog


Copy Game

Duplicates the Game, you can enter a new Title:

copy Game dialog

A New Barcode will be given to the Game

This will be the Barcode suffixed with a .1 or .2 etc, depending on how many copies of the barcode already exist

This allows import/export to still function on copies of Games


Find on Web

Search for the selected Game on the web

See the Search Page for more details


Delete Game

Allows deletion of a Game, you will be asked to confirm the delete


Refresh Image

This will update the displayed image (only available if Images are visible)


Reload Image

This will download the image (only available if Images are visible)



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