Over the last month, you may have noticed a few changes when you’ve logged in to SalesData or LibraryData. The BookNet Canada team has been hard at work behind the scenes adding some exciting new features to your favourite reports.
So, what’s new with SalesData & LibraryData? The latest SalesData release includes new features in the Quick Search results page, designed to help users narrow down their results even further and to use those results to directly build other reports in SalesData & LibraryData. Some of these new features are described as follows.
New Column Options and Column Customization
To help you better find the titles you’re looking for in Quick Search results, we’ve added new column options based on feedback from users. You can still view columns for ISBN, Title, Subtitle, Series, Contributor(s), CDN contributor identifier, Publisher, Pub. Date, Format, Current Week Units Sold, and Lifetime Units Sold. Now, however, you can view additional columns such as Cover Image (available by default), Distributor, Current List Price, Subject, Page Count, Lower Age, Upper Age, and Languages.
Column Sorting
We’ve also made some changes to the sorting logic in Quick Search, so that it’s more consistent with other reports in SalesData & LibraryData. Your quick search results will automatically be sorted in descending order by Current Week Units Sold. Clicking any of the column headers once will sort the table in either descending or ascending order by the values in that column, depending on the column. Clicking twice will sort the table in the opposite order by the values in that column.
Column Filters
You can now also use column filters to narrow your results down even further! Each column in Quick Search results — with the exception of Cover Image — now has a filter option. The filter type available differs depending on each column.
For example, use the text-based filters on the ISBN, Title, Subtitle, Series, Contributor, Publisher, or Distributor columns by typing in text. You will see that your results have been narrowed down to include ISBNs that include that text in the corresponding bibliographic data.
Alongside this, you can now also filter results by Canadian contributors, PubDate, Format, Subject, Age Range, Languages, Current List Price, Page Count, Current Week Units Sold, and Lifetime Units Sold Range.
Run a report with Search Results
We’ve also added the capability for you to use any ISBNs in your quick search results to run other SalesData or LibraryData reports — either a Bestseller and Multiple ISBN reports in SalesData or a Popular Books report in LibraryData.
Copy ISBNs from Search Results
You can also copy your selected ISBNs to your clipboard! Once your ISBNs have been selected, simply click “Copy Selected ISBNs” at the top of your results table. Note that you will only be able to use the “Copy Selected ISBNs” button once your ISBNs have been selected — otherwise, it will remain greyed out.
For more details on how to use these new features visit our user docs.
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