Title

The Title of The item you are adding. Duplicate titles ARE allowed, however the authors for these titles must be different, or the items must be on different media.

We suggest that you enter titles in the standard manner that doesn't use the words "A", "The", etc. as the first word of the title. You would enter the title "The Complete Works of Derrick Dingle" as "Complete Works of Derrick Dingle, The" Max: 60 Characters.

Magician

Use this field only when the subject of the book is not credited as an author. For the book "The Classic Magic of Larry Jennings," you would put Mike Maxwell as the author, and Larry Jennings as the magician. You may NOT have the same person in the Author and Magician field of a book. Use of this field is informational only. Any databases searches by a person's name will retrieve this book regardless of how the person is entered in the database.

Authors

This shows that person or persons who have been indicated as authors of this title. You may remove a person's authorship in three ways:

1. Double-click on the person.
2. Right-click on the person, and select "Delete" from the pop-up menu.
3. Click on the person and press the <CTRL><DELETE> key combination.

In all three cases, you will be given an opportunity to cancel the removal.

If you wish, you may edit the name of one of the authors by right-clicking the author's name and selecting "edit Name" from the pop-up menu. This will take you to the Find Author/Magician screen, with the person's name ready to be edited. Any changes you make will be reflected in the "Authors" field when you return to the Edit Book screen.

Price

This field allows you to change or add a price associated with this title. All prices will be reflected on the Statistics page.

Notes

Use this as you choose. You might want to put in the date purchased, ISBN number, where you bought it, to whom it's been loaned, etc. Any information you enter in this field is searchable in the "Find Book" screen. (Special Note: If you right click on this field, you will see an "Enlarge" pop-up menu appear. If you select this, the field will enlarge to fill most of the form. This will make it easy to enter and review any lengthy notes you would care to enter. Right clicking again will bring up a "Shrink" menu.)

Delete book

Use this button to delete the book you are editing. You will be given a warning message to enable you to cancel the deletion. If there are tricks from this book in the database, you will be shown how many, and given the opportunity to cancel the delete. If you delete a book that has tricks in the database, all its tricks will be deleted also!

Remove Magician From Book

Use this button to clear the Magician field. The person will NOT be deleted from the database. He will no longer be listed as the Magician associated with that book.

Add Another Author to Book

Use this button if you want to add more authors to the book. You will be taken to a screen that lets you select one or more people. When you leave that screen, those people will show up in the "{Authors" field.

Media (Radio Button)

This indicates which media is noted in the database for this book. You may change it by clicking on a different radio button. Be aware that this can cause a problem if you inadvertently change the media of a title to one that is already in the database.

Category (Radio Button)

Use this to select the category of your item. The default is "Other." Selecting this will be valuable to help restrict searches, as well as giving you useful statistics.

Close

You may exit this screen by clicking the "Close" button. Note: If any data has been changed, you will get a warning that there is data that has not been saved. See: Close Options.

Save

Saves the information on the screen to the database. If you have not entered data in the "Title" field, you will get an error message, and not be allowed to save any data. If you have not added any authors, you will get a warning message that asks you to confirm that this item has no authors. After the title has been saved, you will get a confirmation message, and be returned to the Find Book screen.

Clear changes

Restores all information to the point of your last save.