BookCAT 9.12

BookCAT 9.12 offers you a powerful database program which is designed specifically to catalog and manage a personal, club, school, church, or business library. It also maintains an inventory of your book collection. BookCAT is used by book-lovers, schools, churches, clubs, and business libraries. Using BookCAT you can quickly catalog your books by downloading information from
the Internet. BookCAT will help you track what you have in your library, where it is (including books out on loan) and the total value of your collection.

BookCAT has a comprehensive set of fields, enabling you to catalog a wide range of information: author, title, publisher, ISBN number, publish date, number of pages, editor, original title, translator, binding, edition, type of book (fiction, non-fiction, etc.), category and sub-category, purchase date and price, current value, condition, status (own, want, for sale), personal rating, owner, location, keywords, awards and nominations, comments, synopsis, reviews, and more.

You can effectively find the information you are looking for by using the powerful search and filter features. BookCAT allows you search your database with any combination of data fields and operators.

BookCAT includes a report designer that lets you create professional looking reports with exactly the layout you want. Use one of the more than 80 pre-defined reports, or create your own reports from scratch. You have full control over data fields, groups, sort order, columns, fonts, colors, paper size, margins and print orientation. BookCAT lets you preview reports on screen before printing, or save reports in virtually any file format.

You can quickly generate documents to be published on the Internet. The loan module lets you keep track of books on loan. Check the program periodically to see what is still out on loan. You will always know who has what and since when.

BookCAT uses popup menus for quick feature access and navigation. BookCAT comes with a sample database to get you started and a comprehensive context sensitive on-line help system.

Major Features:

1. Store information about an unlimited number of books.
2. Save time: Download book data from the Internet. Register most information, such as author and publisher, only once.
3. Adapt the program to your own needs: Change the data field names to suit your personal preferences. Hide data fields you don’t need. Specify your own categories. Split your collection into different catalogs and transfer information between them.
4. Use the Form Designer to redesign the field layout in all data entry windows.
5. Comprehensive set of data fields enabling you to catalog a wide range of information: author, title, publisher, ISBN number, publish date, number of pages, editor, original title, translator, binding, edition, type of book (fiction, non-fiction, etc.), category and sub-category, purchase date and price, current value, condition, status (own, want, for sale), personal rating, owner, location, keywords, awards and nominations, comments, synopsis, and reviews.
6. More than 30 custom data fields (in case we have missed something).
7. Add personal comments .
8. Store book covers , as well as pictures of authors.
9. Use BookCAT Explorer to view information about authors and books.
10. Find information quickly: Search in all fields with any combination of key words and operators (and, or, etc.). Save your most frequently used searches. Use filters to display only selected data (for example, books that are for sale).
11. Use the search and replace function to search for a specific word or number and replace it with another.
12. Sort data by any field with up to five sort levels.
13. Create your own reports with exactly the layout you want, or use one of the more than 80 pre-defined reports . You have full control of data fields, groups, sort order, columns, fonts, colors, paper size, margins and print orientation.
14. Preview reports on screen before printing. Save reports in virtually any file format : Adobe Acrobat, Excel, HTML, JPEG, Lotus 1-2-3, Quattro Pro, or RTF.
15. Archive reports - store report output so that it can be previewed and printed later, without re-accessing the data from which the report was generated. While archiving is very useful for maintaining historical records, it can also be used as a method of report distribution .
16. Keep track of books on loan . Check the program periodically to see what is still out on loan. You will always know who has what and since when.
17. Use the HTML Generator to quickly generate documents to be published on the Internet .
18. Analyze your collection in a variety of ways with the statistics module.
19. Export data to ASCII text files to bring the information into other applications.
20. Backup your valuable data with the backup/restore module.
21. Microsoft Access database format. Offers you an alternative way to view and search your database.

Enhancements:

• Database: Want List: Added two new fields: Series and Release No.
• Download from Internet: Web Links field is now updated when doing an update.
• Download from Internet: Hyphen is now not removed when importing a list of LCCN numbers.
• Database Maintenance: Replace Memo Font: In addition to the font name, you can also replace the font size.
• You can now right-click the browse list and choose "Clear Filter" to deactivate the current filter (or simply press Shift+Ctrl+C).
• Explorer: If a memo field contains formatted text, the correct font as specified in the edit window is now always used. Previously the default explorer font was sometimes used (no longer necessary to set the .memofieldfont style in Style.css).
• Explorer: Added the File and Web Links fields to preview pane in the Book View.
• HTML Export: Added a new "Date Include" property for date fields.
• HTML Export: You can now export the File Links field.
• Search: The global search is now faster.
• Added support for Windows 7.
• FIXED: Report: Labels: Bottom label row not always printed.
• FIXED: Explorer: Preview pane not always updated when selecting new book in the Book View.
• FIXED: Data Entry: The left/top position on the Priority field (Want List window) was incorrect under Windows Vista.
• Various minor fixes and enhancements.

Requirements:

• Windows 7
• Windows Vista
• Windows XP
• Windows 2000