Magic Database™ Help
Statistics
Magic Statistics
There are five tabs of the Magic Statistics page. We hope each of them provides information you will find valuable when analyzing your collection.
Summary
This tab summarizes your data for books and tricks is as many ways as we could find useful.
The top part of the page gives summary information for your books and videos. This includes total value for all your titles, and the average value for those titles that have a price entered. We also summarize your titles by media and category.
Tying your titles and tricks together, we show you how many titles in your library have tricks entered for them.
The last part of this summary is of your tricks. It shows you the total number of tricks, as well as how many of them are from books/videos and how many of them are physical tricks and props.
Tricks per Book
Gives a list of all the titles in your database, and how many tricks in the database are in each.
There is a Pop-up Menu on this tab that will allow you to:
- Find Tricks - This will take you to the Find Trick screen, and show you all the tricks for the book you've clicked on.
- Show Book - This will take you to the Find Book screen, and show you the information for the book you've clicked on.
There are radio buttons on this page that will allow you to:
- Show most tricks first - Allows you to see you most "valuable" books.
- Show fewest tricks first - Highlights those books with no tricks. Perhaps they haven't been read yet, or they aren't useful to you.
- Order by Title - Allows you to see how many tricks are in any book.
Keywords, Sleights, or Props
These tabs show you how often the item is associated with tricks you've entered in the database.
There are radio buttons on this page that will allow you to sort by:
- Show Highest Count First - Allows you to see you most "valuable" item.
- Show Lowest Count First - Highlights unused items.
- Order by Item - Allows you to easily find how often a specific item shows up in your tricks.
Items on the Windows Menu
Database Status
This gives you information about the physical database.
- The directory where your database files are stored.
- The date of the last backup, and the backup file name.
- The date of the last import, and the import file name.
- The number of times the database has been updated since the last backup. (If you have updated the database this session, that will be counted in this statistic.)