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| | | Author: | calsbricks  | | Posted: | Dec 17, 2017 13:19 | | Subject: | A better idea ? | | Viewed: | 145 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Sine the rollout of Instant checkout and various updates there have been a number
of posts regarding the templates BL are forcing users to use.
Would it not be a better idea for the number of templates to be increased so
the stores can have their own choice of how they want it organised and addressed.
This is a simple code change for the programmers and allow some more flexibility
for the stores in addressing the various issues e.g. IBAN and bank details; etc.
Just a thought
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| | | | | Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Dec 17, 2017 17:56 | | Subject: | Re: A better idea ? | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| I don't really understand what you're suggesting, in particular the combination
of "forcing" and "template" - which as far as I can see is by default something
that can be customised. Are you asking for more macro tags maybe to make these
templates more powerful? If so, which?
I personally have always wanted to see a weight macro tag added. That would help
me alot generating shipping costs in my software. Would be even cooler if there
are ways to do computation with this within Bricklink, with some advanced macros.
In Suggestions, calsbricks writes:
| | Sine the rollout of Instant checkout and various updates there have been a number
of posts regarding the templates BL are forcing users to use.
Would it not be a better idea for the number of templates to be increased so
the stores can have their own choice of how they want it organised and addressed.
This is a simple code change for the programmers and allow some more flexibility
for the stores in addressing the various issues e.g. IBAN and bank details; etc.
Just a thought
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| | | | | | | Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Dec 18, 2017 03:13 | | Subject: | Re: A better idea ? | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | I don't really understand what you're suggesting, in particular the combination
of "forcing" and "template" - which as far as I can see is by default something
that can be customised. Are you asking for more macro tags maybe to make these
templates more powerful? If so, which?
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My apologies for not making this clearer. I didn't mean the macro tags
at all. I meant specifically creating different templates to handle different
circumstances. Those that have a variety of payment methods acceptable might
need a different template to handle their IBAN payments v Paypal v ????. As for
'forcing' what I meant was the subject line has now been changed to read
order confirmed instead of this transaction has been placed. Not everyone is
happy with that and it was supposed to be for instant checkout orders only but
it is that way for all orders.
Basically we are asking for more flexibility with the use of templates. Macro
tags are only one element of it. We agree there should be a weight one as well.
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I personally have always wanted to see a weight macro tag added. That would help
me alot generating shipping costs in my software. Would be even cooler if there
are ways to do computation with this within Bricklink, with some advanced macros.
In Suggestions, calsbricks writes:
| | Sine the rollout of Instant checkout and various updates there have been a number
of posts regarding the templates BL are forcing users to use.
Would it not be a better idea for the number of templates to be increased so
the stores can have their own choice of how they want it organised and addressed.
This is a simple code change for the programmers and allow some more flexibility
for the stores in addressing the various issues e.g. IBAN and bank details; etc.
Just a thought
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Dec 18, 2017 04:42 | | Subject: | Re: A better idea ? | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, calsbricks writes:
| | In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | I don't really understand what you're suggesting, in particular the combination
of "forcing" and "template" - which as far as I can see is by default something
that can be customised. Are you asking for more macro tags maybe to make these
templates more powerful? If so, which?
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My apologies for not making this clearer. I didn't mean the macro tags
at all. I meant specifically creating different templates to handle different
circumstances. Those that have a variety of payment methods acceptable might
need a different template to handle their IBAN payments v Paypal v ????. As for
'forcing' what I meant was the subject line has now been changed to read
order confirmed instead of this transaction has been placed. Not everyone is
happy with that and it was supposed to be for instant checkout orders only but
it is that way for all orders.
Basically we are asking for more flexibility with the use of templates. Macro
tags are only one element of it. We agree there should be a weight one as well.
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I personally have always wanted to see a weight macro tag added. That would help
me alot generating shipping costs in my software. Would be even cooler if there
are ways to do computation with this within Bricklink, with some advanced macros.
In Suggestions, calsbricks writes:
| | Sine the rollout of Instant checkout and various updates there have been a number
of posts regarding the templates BL are forcing users to use.
Would it not be a better idea for the number of templates to be increased so
the stores can have their own choice of how they want it organised and addressed.
This is a simple code change for the programmers and allow some more flexibility
for the stores in addressing the various issues e.g. IBAN and bank details; etc.
Just a thought
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Ok, yes, I see about the subject line of the e-mail, it is not currently up for
editing. I don't need that but I see how that can be useful to sellers who
parse these emails programmatically. Anyway, the subject field IS listed on the
template, seems like they will enable editing of it sooner or later.
As for payment methods, the PAYMENTTYPE-EQ tag already exists. The block macro
tags that we currently have should allow all the customisation you described
so far. (I assume that "Purchase Confirmation" the way the template is called
and "Order Notification" the way it is referred to in the macro help are 1 and
the same, would be good if the naming here was consistent).
It's possible that there are more macros needed, though, or that they need
to be available on more of the templates. I recall once that one particular tag
was not available to one of the templates that I needed it for, but I don't
really remember what it was.
Working with these macro tags of course isn't the most user friendly experience
in the world, but it's something we only need to do once, and only sellers
need to do it, so to me it's alright.
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