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#1  Edited By morbus_iff
@carnivalofsins00 said:

" my list is 5 pages long, can you only do one page at a time on the comic vineyard or can you do all of the pages at once? "

As noted in the original post, multiple pages do not currently work yet. They will in the next release, next Monday.    
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#2  Edited By morbus_iff
@carnivalofsins00: See a previous reply (on page 1) for variant handling. As for trades, you can add them to the list, but Comic Vine gives all trades a single issue #1, so you'd want to type in "1" for the "issue" you have. I haven't tested trades myself with Comic Vineyard, but it Should Work. If it doesn't, I'll fix it.
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#3  Edited By morbus_iff
@xkoenig: Currently, Comic Vineyard doesn't handle variants - there's no standard way that Comic Vine says "Hey! This image is the 2B variant of issue 2" and, even if it did, that information isn't available in the API. You can fake it by doing something like "2; variants: 2B". The themes don't currently support the "variants" key/value, but they will. When they do, you'd STILL see the normal issue 2 in your collection, but there'd be a nearby note saying you own variant 2B.
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#4  Edited By morbus_iff
@cbishop: Check the documentation on the front page of Comic Vineyard. The short/technical answer is: you can add additional key/values to your volume's comment for your own notes. The theme currently understands "location" (which I use to indicate what long box or shelf they're in). In the future, I'm planning on supporting "group: ", which would allow you to specify a custom grouping (so, say, instead of rendering 20 one shots as 20 separate groups, you could say "group: One-shots" and you'd get one group called "One-shots" with 20 individual issues in it). But, as you've noticed, they're entirely optional.
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#5  Edited By morbus_iff
@cbishop said:
" @Morbus: The one-shot problem is on my end - I link to the issue page instead of the volume page.  I can just change that - no biggie (except that I've got about 40 lists to do that on - lol).  Rendering multiple lists as one C'vineyard list is pretty cool.  Nice idea. :) "
I wouldn't go nutty changing all your lists just yet - I'd rather a) fix the underlying bug [which causes a broken image/link when you link to your one-shot issue] and b) figure out if I can accept issues in a list and still render/group them the right way. It's "easier" for me to fix one script than it is for you to go around fixing forty lists ;)
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#6  Edited By morbus_iff

 To respond to your edits: 
 
For me, a Comic Vine list, by itself, lends nothing more exciting than my previous way of managing my collection: a single text file with "Batman|3|600-615" (Batman, location 3, issues 600 through 615). If I specify just the volumes (as Comic Vineyard has you do), then the image I see is the first issue of the volume which isn't representative of any issue I actually have. The link to the volume itself just shows me every possible issue and not the ones I own, again, making it worthless. It serves no advantage of the text file I had before. Now, if I made a Comic Vine list that included items for every issue I had, it defeats the other purpose of Comic Vineyard: speed of data entry. If I had 5000 comics, I'd have to hit 5000 pages on Comic Vine and make 4 clicks for every addition. That's pretty painful. Even when finished, I'd have a 100 page Comic Vine list (50 comics per page) which would be nigh-near impossible to keep sorted with any semblance of speed. Again, not a solution I'm hoping for.  
 
As for "waiting", yeah, I have various ways around it that I can work on, but they're pretty "about face"ish from the original approach of the script, so I'll likely want to solidify things first before working on the speed and cache. And if there's no real big clamor for it, I might not even worry about it at all.

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#7  Edited By morbus_iff
@cbishop: I don't have an answer for the one-shot problem you describe - I don't see Comic VIneyard being able to handle it specifically (there's nothing in the API that tells me its a one-shot, etc.). I'll look into the idea of supporting issues, and volumes, within a list. Regarding multiple copies, Comic Vineyard does handle this if you do it as "19, 19" or even "16-21, 19", but it doesn't currently indicate the count anywhere in the render (it does keep track of it internally). Instead of showing two covers, I'd likely just have it include "Count: 2" beneath the date or something similar. Anyways, I'll add it to my todo to look into support 19 (2) as a possible syntax.
 
Finally, you can render as many individual lists as you want - Comic Vineyard doesn't limit that. One of the features I'll be working on in the future will be a way for you to specify multiple lists to render one giant collection from. That is, you can maintain four lists at Comic Vine (something which I'll likely see myself doing too), and then feed all four lists into Comic Vineyard and, in one Render, get out a giant/combined collection of your books. Or, alternatively, you can render all the lists individually. It'd be up to you. 
 
Thanks for being an early user!
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#8  Edited By morbus_iff
@fajkimajki:  it kinda already is a standalone app, in the sense that a) you can use the online version without installing anything, and b) it does, in fact, already run on Mac and Linux machines with no problem, and it'd only require PHP to be installed on Windows to work ;)
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#9  Edited By morbus_iff
@Hawk said:

" I've got 5,000 or so comics......this would take 4 ever!!!!!   Great job my friend. "

Exactly! And that's why all the other online comic sites drive me nuts - 5000 comics would require *at least* 5000 page loads. That's one of the problems I personally wanted to solve. Instead of 5000 page loads (one for each issue), you add the Comic Vine volume to a list, then specify the issues you have in a simple numeric format, like you can see on Marc's list (who is helping me beta test) or my own (which is currently incomplete, but I've 10 row boxes to throw in there).
 
With that said, 5000 comics would take a LooOONg time for the script to go through, and you probably wouldn't want to use the default template, since it'd put all 5000 of those comics, with cover scans, on a single page. One of the other templates I'll be releasing will be an Excel-like sortable table row thingy, with individual links for every issue on Comic Vine. But, I doubt that will make it into the first release (which I'm planning to get out this Monday or Tuesday).
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#10  Edited By morbus_iff
@Om1kron: Personal use, with intention to distribute ;) I left school loOOoong ago.