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| | | Author: | calsbricks  | | Posted: | Feb 10, 2018 04:24 | | Subject: | Please bring Order Download up to date | | Viewed: | 118 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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The order download feature is clumsy and nor set out to work in today's IT
environment. Please bring it up to date and provide choice for which columns
that the user wishes to download. Choosing include details is insufficient. More
people would use this feature if the flexibility in design was improved.
Bring the formats up to date as well as even Excel 2010 is unhappy with the MS
excel download. Stop combining the colour field with the description field etc.,
etc etc.
If improvements here are planned for sellers tools, please let us know and provide
an anticipated delivery date for that. We want to download our orders into our
off-line system and at present this is a totally manual exercise.
Those of us who use off-line systems need more flexibility to deal with data
from Bricklink.
We haven't pout this as a suggestion cause quite honestly we do not feel
that route works very well at all.
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| | | | | Author: | minithings4life | | Posted: | Feb 10, 2018 04:40 | | Subject: | Re: Please bring Order Download up to date | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| | Agreed. Make this a suggestion post and I will vote yes. |
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| | | | | | | Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Feb 10, 2018 04:54 | | Subject: | Re: Please bring Order Download up to date | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| In Problem, Minifigforlife writes:
| | Agreed. Make this a suggestion post and I will vote yes.
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Done
Now let's see what happens.
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| | | | | Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Feb 10, 2018 05:34 | | Subject: | Re: Please bring Order Download up to date | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, calsbricks writes:
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The order download feature is clumsy and nor set out to work in today's IT
environment. Please bring it up to date and provide choice for which columns
that the user wishes to download. Choosing include details is insufficient. More
people would use this feature if the flexibility in design was improved.
Bring the formats up to date as well as even Excel 2010 is unhappy with the MS
excel download. Stop combining the colour field with the description field etc.,
etc etc.
If improvements here are planned for sellers tools, please let us know and provide
an anticipated delivery date for that. We want to download our orders into our
off-line system and at present this is a totally manual exercise.
Those of us who use off-line systems need more flexibility to deal with data
from Bricklink.
We haven't pout this as a suggestion cause quite honestly we do not feel
that route works very well at all.
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Even better, a proper API to retrieve this data and much more, that people can
use without being a hardcore programmer.
Instead of a button you have to press manually and a download you have to find
and open, simply a page with an URL that contains a password that will display
all of that data on the screen in plain text immediately. People with basic programming
skills can parse this easily and automate their business, and people without
any skills at all can bookmark the link, press the bookmark button at any time,
Ctrl+A Ctrl+C and work with it. All options can be contained in parameters.
BrickOwl has a great API, I think it really is quite awkward that after so many
years the Bricklink API users are some kind of hidden cult with exceptional IT
skills when it could be a tool that benefits alot of people.
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| | | | | Author: | chetzler | | Posted: | Feb 10, 2018 11:06 | | Subject: | Re: Please bring Order Download up to date | | Viewed: | 25 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| | | Stop combining the colour field with the description field
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Voted yes! This particular quirk has always annoyed the heck out of me! I've
asked about it before and gotten no response. Why anyone ever thought that was
a good idea is beyond me. That field is totally useless the way it is.
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