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 Author: alahaka View Messages Posted By alahaka
 Posted: Nov 21, 2016 13:09
 Subject: "Add to Wanted List" order not sensible
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 Topic: Suggestions
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alahaka (645)

Location:  USA, California
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Hello,

The wanted list names in the left panel of the "Add to Wanted List" popup window
are apparently in order of creation date (and perhaps name modification date).

This illogic puts the most likely being added-to wanted list name, the newest
one, at the bottom of the left panel, requiring an elevator bar drag all the
way down, or initial character search entry to reach this most likely preferred
list name.

Also this illogic means the names are not in alphabetical order, requiring a
longer visual scan to find the desired name when using the elevator bar. For
example, "Parts" is one of my older purposely nondescript list names which I
still often use. So all I know right now is that it's "somewhere in the
middle" of the jumbled list names, as opposed to simply being after "O" and before
"Q" which would result in finding it more quickly.

I appreciate the new "Add to Wanted List" process, however I believe it is past
time to make sense of the order of wanted list names.

Please list them alphabetically.

Thank you, Matthew
 Author: therobo View Messages Posted By therobo
 Posted: Nov 21, 2016 14:42
 Subject: Re: "Add to Wanted List" order not sensible
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Location:  Germany, Berlin
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In Suggestions, matejo writes:
  Hello,

The wanted list names in the left panel of the "Add to Wanted List" popup window
are apparently in order of creation date (and perhaps name modification date).

This illogic puts the most likely being added-to wanted list name, the newest
one, at the bottom of the left panel, requiring an elevator bar drag all the
way down, or initial character search entry to reach this most likely preferred
list name.

Also this illogic means the names are not in alphabetical order, requiring a
longer visual scan to find the desired name when using the elevator bar. For
example, "Parts" is one of my older purposely nondescript list names which I
still often use. So all I know right now is that it's "somewhere in the
middle" of the jumbled list names, as opposed to simply being after "O" and before
"Q" which would result in finding it more quickly.

I appreciate the new "Add to Wanted List" process, however I believe it is past
time to make sense of the order of wanted list names.

Please list them alphabetically.

Thank you, Matthew

Seconded!
There's also a bug in the wanted system, as items are no longer added to
the wanted list specified in the wanted settings:
http://www.bricklink.com/wantedSettings.asp?viewFrom=P