Universal upload date problem

I did a universal import for 109 issues of a journal. For date I put for example "May/June 1999" with each journal having a different date. However they all uploaded as 1969. Is there a way first to edit these, and second to do it better for my next journal upload. thank you

>1 nonob: I think it's best to just put the year in the date column, which I think I had mentioned when I described the similar importing I'd done, in one of your other threads. Put the full "May/June 1999" at the end of the issue title instead. "Awesome History Journal, Vol 01 Issue 03 (May/June 1999)" or something along those lines, just don't put the volume and issue numbers in parentheses or after a colon.

Oh that's right you did tell me that. I did manage to edit the date on one of them so I might slog my way through that for the first series but for the next ones I will do as you suggested. Sorry to make you have to say it twice.

>3 nonob: That's okay, it can be complicated to add stuff in optimal ways. I'm pretty new here myself but spent about a month before I registered, just reading about how everything works and what pitfalls to avoid.

Do you know you can edit years and titles directly in your catalog grid view? I use that a lot for making similar changes to a lot of items. (I know these will all be different, but you can quickly see the last one you did was May/June 1999 so the next will be July/August 1999, etc, plus you don't have to load all the separate pages.)

That is great, thanks again. I've been reading and experimenting here on my own page but all of this is being applied to the Olympia Bonsai Club page. This is the perfect pandemic project for me! I sure appreciate your expertise.