MissionaryMan64

If the list were alphabetized, it wouldn't matter as much. Yes, I would love to be able to delete pre-defined formats. But some of the ones that are showing up in my list are formats that I added in a previous version (FDC-CA, etc.) and not ones from the predefined list. I would love the ability to delete those, too. I suppose I could open the MDB in Access and delete them there (though with caution, of course). Right?

Back to this. The first 2 screenshots are all the formats in my database as shown in View By - Formats. The next two screen shots are what shows (above and below) my user defined formats. IF it works as @admin stated (which I know that new ones are added, so it kind of works that way), then the formats not starting with UD in the last two screenshots below should no longer show up. Any ideas? Thanks!

Thanks, Jeff. You understand what I am looking for. I have no idea what the original intent for the Location field on the Additional Information tab of Stamp Properties. Thanks for the vote. 😉 IF mass update didn't change other values (other ticket), AND IF mass update allowed change to Location, then I would not need this - though it seems silly to update the location of a stamp, when I have already identified which album/stock book/box/file it is in. It seems to make more sense to update in which cabinet and on what shelf a particular album is located, and to just store that information in one place rather than on a bunch of individual stamp records. Thanks!

Great news!

I was just going to post this same thing today. I use my own user defined formats, so that I can control the values 100%. I thought maybe that it was because of this that the value was being recalculated on a mass change. (All I was changing was location). I am guessing that all that is supposed to change is location (or dealer as Roydel above mentioned) and not other things. Let me know if you want other info. I am on the current version of Stamp Manage 2023. This is not something that I had noticed before, but it could be that I just didn't notice because I was mostly using formats that came with the software. Thanks!

Sorry - I forgot the screenshots. OOPS! Where are Used-S and Used-XF-S in the drop down above??

Thanks for the response. That's exactly what I thought should happen. But for me, I have NO entries with the formats in the green box above (they do not show up in the View by FORMAT list, yet they show up in the add/edit stamp entry drop down as shown in the partial screenshot above. Obviously, something is not working right for me. Any other ideas?

2 screenshots attached: 1 - stamp edit grade drop-down list 2- view by list of all grades in use (including user defined grades) Why does the grade drop-down list not use all the grades in use (including the user defined ones)? Possible enhancement? Thanks!

I decided to add user-defined formats to try to standardize them some. Because I was hoping that they would end up at the bottom of the form, I started them with UD (for user-defined), a period, and then the description. While I can edit my user-defined formats, I cannot do so with the default ones (see screen shot, the ones circled in green without UD. at the beginning). I would like to remove them from the format list entirely. Anyone know how I can go about doing that? If there is not a way, would that be a possible enhancement? Thanks!

Would it be possible to add a Location (from the list of Locations) to the properties of the Album/Stock Book? That seems to make more sense than having the location field on the individual stamp. A stamp is something (an album or stock book or box), which is noted on the stamp properties page 1 (lower left on my screen). And that something is in a location. What say ye? Thanks.

You are right that there are too many combinations and permutations to have an entry for every one of them - but there should be the ability to tie different stamps together on one cover (without using user-defined fields - as I have done). Then the DB does not need to handle the permutations - but the user is enabled to record them easily. Still hoping for something like that.

Along with that - the various types of stamps are described differently for different countries. For example - general issue stamps (no letter prefix on Scott number) for US stamps are under General Issue, but for UN - New York they are Regular Issues. And that is just the beginning. Just between those two "countries" alone, there are Air Post and Air Mail, Postal Cards and Postal Cards - Mint, and Envelopes and Air Letter Sheets or Postal Stationery. Consistency in a DB should be fairly easy and it would make using SM much easier. I still like SM, but would love to see some improvements. Thanks!

Did I read that this was an update that was being worked on a while back? Any news? Thanks!

Still interested in an answer to this question. Thanks!

I receive the attached error when I try to upgrade from 2021 to 2022. Can someone help me, PLEASE? I really want to be able to use what I paid for. I sent an email to support, but did not receive a response. The first time I tried to install it I ignored the error. Then when I got into 2022, there were no values for 2022. Rebooted several times, but they still never showed up. So I uninstalled - and now I have this error and do not dare ignore it. Thanks!