Customising your IPDb Account

There are several ways you can personalise your account:

• adding a photo/avatar 
• choosing a display name/alias
• adding additional login methods
• adding additional custom folders
• adding additional personal fields
• adding members to contacts

LOCATION:   SETTINGS screen (Cog icon)  >  Account section

Details can be found here - Avatar/display name

The badges are your, personal achievements, as an IPDb user. To see the top 10 in each category, hit the badges - see more here.

Personalising how records are displayed

The right-most icon (person with cog icon) will display the user settings dialogue below:

Member status

You can easily use IPDb without signing up for an account but naturally, most functionality will not be available for guests. If you sign up for an account, your member status will be 'User'. If you sign up for a monthly 5$ subscription, you will become a 'Member'. The subscription will not give you any new functionality but it will make you feel great!

System

With the system setting you can decide whether you prefer "inches" or "cms" as a unit for puzzle dimensions. You can always input dimensions in either system, but later, when viewing the entries, this setting will determine what to use.

List view Mode

You can decide how to display a list of puzzles from searches etc. The default is cards, but if you show a different setting, the list will appear, differently.

Image Preference

If you wish, you can set up IPDb, to show you a preference for a display box, poster or puzzle images. Many people prefer box images to display in the list and detail view, but some prefer to display images of the finished puzzle. You can set your preference here. Naturally, images have to be categorized as box, poster or puzzle images for this to work.

Colour Theme

Choose your favourite colour scheme for your IPDb App.

Disable Completion Pop-up

Each time you mark a puzzle as completed, a pop-up will, by default, give you the option to record the date it has been completed; you can also add the time used to complete it. If this is not in your interest you can disable this pop-up, here.

Adding Additional Login Methods

Whilst 1 login method is usually enough for most people, we encourage you to register with at least, 1 additional method.

Benefit: If 1 login method fails for whatever reason, you can still log in with any of your other login method(s). E.g. mobile phone registrations require an SMS notification each time to provide a login code, so this won't be a viable login option if you don't have your phone handy.

NOTE: It is important that if you decide to create an alternative login, it is necessary to make sure you do so via the "additional login" icon in your original account. This way, both login methods will log you into the same account, rather than creating 2 separate accounts.

See the instructions at the bottom of the following article:  How to register as an IPDb member  

The remaining 2 buttons are used if you would like to log out or delete your account.

LOCATION: FOLDERS screen 

Whilst 6 standard folders are provided on the FOLDERS page (wishlist, puzzles submitted, puzzles completed and puzzles edited), you can create an additional 8 folders to arrange your puzzle collections, as you like. 

Examples: To Be Completed/To Do, Specific Collections (favourite artist/brand), etc.

More information - Personal Folders

LOCATION: SETTINGS screen (Cog icon) > Private Information section

Whilst each puzzle has all the standard puzzle fields for the IPDb database, you also have the option to add some fields of your own if you wish to keep track of more information about your puzzles.

Examples: Date bought/sold, Condition, Date completed, Purchase cost.

More information - Personal (private) fields

Are there regular contributors whose puzzle taste you like, or even existing puzzle friends whom you would want to follow? 

Adding these individuals to your "Contacts" list will make it easier to see their submitted puzzles, or send them a quick message.

More information - Follow a member

Some app notifications come in the form of Messages. These may be notifications about someone adding information to one of your submitted puzzles, another member sending you an enquiry or direct feedback about puzzles submitted, general app notifications or member-direct messages.

All of these can be found in the Messages section of the SETTINGS page (Cog icon)