Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | SylvainLS  | | Posted: | Apr 20, 2024 08:47 | | Subject: | Re: How does buy all in the wanted list | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Wanted | |
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| In Wanted, GaryMus writes:
| | A question about the wanted list.
I have included a red brick 2x3 with price set to the lego price. Require say
100 bricks.
I have also inclued brick 2x3 of any colour (N/A) set to a requirement of 200
bricks.
When I buy all and select the top store does this show different combination
of colours of 2x3 bricks starting with the cheapest price, then the next cheapest
and so on until it makes up 200 ?
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Hi,
Nope. Unfortunately 
If you search your WL in a store, you’ll be shown all the lots of 2x3 that have
at least 200 bricks.
If you use the Auto-fill options, _all_ the lots will end up in your cart (so,
if there’s 10 lots, you’ll get 2,000 bricks in the cart!).
If you use Auto-select or EasyBuy, the algorithm will choose a lot in a store
with 200 2x3 bricks in one colour.
I’ve no idea whatsoever how that lot is chosen. Tests have proven it’s not the
cheapest in the store, and it’s not the ‘first’ in the store (in any way you
define ‘first’). And it’s even worse (price-wise) if there’s multiple stores
in the selection.
IOW: N/A is okay when it’s just about finding stores, but it’s not good when
you want to ‘buy’ automatically.
Also: just try. It costs nothing but a little time 
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Apr 20, 2024 07:35 | | Subject: | Re: Import XML | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, Hubster357 writes:
| | Hi,
If you have an XML and there are items in that xml that not found can you upload
regardless and ignore the incorrect parts?
For some reason a Moc I purchased must have either an old colour or part number
and it blocks the import, I can edit the xml but curios if there is a simple
tick box option?
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Hi,
The problem would be a old part number (due to a renaming or a merge)… and there’s
no way to correct that on the website
I think BrickStore could be able to automatically correct your XML file… or at
least it’ll have a simple and easy to use interface to find the correct part.
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Apr 19, 2024 09:20 | | Subject: | Re: Set 6074 | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Inventories | |
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| In Inventories, Turez writes:
Ah yes, I see them now the sun is out… and that I was told to look there 
Hmm, to put these arches on the ‘manor’ part, you need other small parts that
are not in the inventory: a 1x2 brick, 2x 1x1 plates and 2x (1 or 2)x3 plates….
You could do without the (1 or 2)x3 plates with the Extra 1x2 and 2x2….
And you can get one 2x3 if you can use the (1 and 2)x10 plates instead of the
(1x2)x8 ones on the walkway… but it doesn’t seem like they did that on the pic.
A head-scatcher….
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Apr 19, 2024 06:39 | | Subject: | Re: Variants Thread - April 16 | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, axaday writes:
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How much data space would it take to have two catalogs? One for detailed data
and one for generalized marketplace?
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The problem isn’t space, it’s consistency and workload.
Basically, you’re doubling the workload.
If you make a change in one of the catalogues, should it be echoed on the other
one? To which extent? Can that be automatized?
In the software world, that’s called a fork (external / by another team) or a
branch (internal / by the same team).
We have tools and procedures to follow and “port” (transfer, apply) changes between
branches / versions / forks (‘diffs’ and ‘patches’ and ‘version control system’
(git, bitkeeper, mercurial…)).
And those tools are good and ‘smart.’ They can work around other changes and
differences that shouldn’t change (and (good) devs are lazy: everything that
can be automatized is automatized).
But we ALWAYS need to check the changes. The changes may apply without a hitch…
but they may break the program because they contradict an older change. That
can also be automatized, to some extent. But it’s work again and you can never
predict everything so you always need to check.
Duplicating a database and the changes on the database can be automitized in
the same way: changes are just instructions, like a program. So the same porting
solutions & problems apply: Should that change be applied? Can it be applied?
Should another change be applied instead? And you always need to check, check,
check.
Also, you first need to record these instructions. AFAIK, BrickLink’s changelogs
aren’t complete / sufficient.
TL;DR: It’s the same as the work done by Rebrickable: another catalogue, with
conversion tables, with changes to follow / apply or not, with errors or misses…,
and with a full team to manage it.
It could be a bit simpler and you could save a bit by keeping it inside BrickLink,
but that won’t remove most of the work needed.
Another possibility is to handle that in only one “catalogue,” with two (or more!)
different ways to present its info. The work would be done only once, in the
more detailed catalogue, and there would be mechanisms to hide the details to
the users. But that’s the same as the “umbrella part” solution: you need to
change the whole structure of the database and the way the site works. That
can’t be patched onto what exists now (which is already patched enough with spaghetti
and sauce as it is).
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Apr 19, 2024 06:17 | | Subject: | Re: Parting a set into a wanted list | | Viewed: | 16 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, DanCookePhotos writes:
| | Hello,
I'm looking at building up the parts for the UCS Y-Wing (2nd edition, 75181).
I already have set 75172 which is the play scale Y-Wing which I'm looking
at breaking down to give me some of the parts for the UCS scale version.
Is their a way, without going through it line by line, to part out the pieces
from the playscale set into my UCS wanted list?
Many thanks,
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Hi,
To part out a set: hover over the white, heart-shaped “Want” icon and click “Part
Out”: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/wanted/partout.page
But you can’t “apply” a Wanted List (or an inventory) to another one on BrickLink,
to remove the parts you already have. You need to use third-party tools, like
BrickStore (application) or Rebrickable (website).
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Apr 19, 2024 04:05 | | Subject: | Re: Set 6074 | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Inventories | |
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| In Inventories, SylvainLS writes:
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Ah ha! On the alternate build shown on the instructions, we can see a 3rd arch
used (and we can infer a 4th one on the other side).
So, according to the rules, at least these two should be Regular 🤔
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And there’s already three LG plates (a 1x10, a 2x2, and a 2x10) in Regular that
are not needed for the main build and that are not visible on the alternate.
The plot thickens 🤔
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Apr 18, 2024 18:21 | | Subject: | Re: Set 6074 | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | Inventories | |
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| In Inventories, SylvainLS writes:
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Weird that there were no images of their use on the box….
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Ah ha! On the alternate build shown on the instructions, we can see a 3rd arch
used (and we can infer a 4th one on the other side).
So, according to the rules, at least these two should be Regular 🤔
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Apr 18, 2024 18:07 | | Subject: | Re: Set 6074 | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Inventories | |
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| In Inventories, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Inventories, Randa82 writes:
| | Buonasera,
Volevo sapere cosa si intende
Per articoli aggiuntivi nel catalogo
Di questo set nella descrizione
Delle parti su brick
Sono articoli presenti in origine ??
Spero di aver espresso ben domanda
Simone
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Hi,
That’s a strange one indeed. The “Extra” section is for parts that are found
in a sealed box but are not needed for any of the builds seen in the instructions
or on the box.
I had that set when I was a kid… I don’t remember 3 unused arches 🤔
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Well, I just checked my parts: there indeed must have been 5 Light Gray 2339
in that set because I’ve 9 and the 4 others are from 6085.
Weird that there were no images of their use on the box….
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Apr 18, 2024 17:57 | | Subject: | Re: Set 6074 | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Inventories | |
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| In Inventories, Randa82 writes:
| | Buonasera,
Volevo sapere cosa si intende
Per articoli aggiuntivi nel catalogo
Di questo set nella descrizione
Delle parti su brick
Sono articoli presenti in origine ??
Spero di aver espresso ben domanda
Simone
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Hi,
That’s a strange one indeed. The “Extra” section is for parts that are found
in a sealed box but are not needed for any of the builds seen in the instructions
or on the box.
I had that set when I was a kid… I don’t remember 3 unused arches 🤔
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Apr 18, 2024 16:56 | | Subject: | Re: Possible phishing emails | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| In Technical Issues, SylvainLS writes:
| | Please, don’t post personal info on the forum. Your e-mail address was in the
pictures. Obfuscate it before repost the images.
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*reposting
And I forgot: sorry I had to cancel your post, but we can’t edit posts here
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