Readerware List-Catalog Wizard

The Readerware list-catalog wizard is used to catalog lists of items extracted from a web site.

For example it can be used to catalog your past purchases from sites like amazon.com. Start by selecting the Web->Import Past Purchases menu item. The Readerware list-catalog wizard opens and will catalog your past purchases for you automatically. This is a great way to get started with Readerware products. Cataloging your collection has never been easier and the Readerware list-catalog wizard will guide your through the process step by step.

These are the basic steps:

  1. Select the web site to import from
  2. Extract the list of items to catalog
  3. Run Readerware list-catalog
  4. Check the results


Selecting the web site

Select the appropriate site from the list. Typically you need to sign on to the site in order to access your past purchases. So you will need to enter your sign on information. This is normally your e-mail ID and password, but it can vary from site to site. Readerware uses this information just to access the list of your past purchases, it is not stored anywhere, you will need to enter it each time.

Click on Next to continue.


Building the item list

When this page of the wizard is first displayed Readerware is extracting the list of items to catalog. When the list is complete it is displayed and the Next button is enabled. The list will typically include the title of each item to be extracted.

Click on Next to continue.


Verification Page

Next up is the verification page. This is your last chance to change your settings prior to running Readerware list-catalog. A quick summary of your choices is listed. Click on Next if you are ready to go. Click on Back if you want to change your choices.


List-Catalog Running Page

When you reach this page, Readerware list-catalog is running. You will see a progress list that will update as Readerware catalogs each item. 

You may have noticed that as you added an item to the list, a  question mark icon was displayed next to it. This indicates that Readerware list-catalog has not yet searched the internet for this item. As it processes each item, Readerware changes the icon to indicate the results. The icons are:

This indicates that the item has not yet been processed
The item has been processed, the item and product image have been added to the database.
The item has been processed and added to the database, no product image was found
The item has been processed but could not be found
The item was already found in the Readerware database, this item was skipped

When you have reviewed the status of each item you entered, click on the Next button to proceed to the final page of this wizard.

  

List-Catalog Complete Page

This page displays the overall list-catalog statistics:
Note that you can use the Back and Next buttons to toggle between the results and the auto-catalog summary page. When you are done, click the Finish  button. Readerware will then display all the new items added to your database in the main window. You can optionally review and edit these new items. Click on the toolbar browse button to return to the full database display.

This statistics information and a complete item by item listing is also written to the rwuser.log file, if user logging is enabled. You will find this file in your Readerware directory. You can view this file in any text editor

There is no easier way to catalog your collection!

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