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 Author: StormChaser View Messages Posted By StormChaser
 Posted: Jun 8, 2020 05:28
 Subject: New Relationship Match
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 Topic: Catalog
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StormChaser (566)

Location:  USA, Oklahoma
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This page was becoming unwieldy with all the variants and was difficult to maintain:

https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=940

So now we've added this:

https://www.bricklink.com/catalogRelCat.asp?relID=24

Definitions updated:

https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=599

Now when you discover a new mold or print variant, all you have to do is:

1. Submit a comparison image showing the differences.

2. Submit a relationship match.

That's it! Enjoy.
 Author: hpoort View Messages Posted By hpoort
 Posted: Jun 8, 2020 06:50
 Subject: Re: New Relationship Match
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hpoort (410)

Location:  Netherlands, Groningen
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In Catalog, StormChaser writes:
  This page was becoming unwieldy with all the variants and was difficult to maintain:

https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=940

So now we've added this:

https://www.bricklink.com/catalogRelCat.asp?relID=24

Definitions updated:

https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=599

Now when you discover a new mold or print variant, all you have to do is:

1. Submit a comparison image showing the differences.

2. Submit a relationship match.

That's it! Enjoy.

Great idea to do it this way.

Is there a flag you can set so that this relation type also shows up at catalog
item pages like other relations? Or is this up to admin Russell to get a developer
onto this?
 Author: StormChaser View Messages Posted By StormChaser
 Posted: Jun 8, 2020 11:46
 Subject: Re: New Relationship Match
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StormChaser (566)

Location:  USA, Oklahoma
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In Catalog, hpoort writes:
  Is there a flag you can set so that this relation type also shows up at catalog
item pages like other relations?

No. Frankly, I'm not sure why we need one. Every item on the list should
have, at a minimum, an additional note and preferably also a comparison image.
So specifying on an individual catalog entry itself that a part is flagged as
a part variant is unnecessary.

  Or is this up to admin Russell to get a developer onto this?

If there were a developer on it, we would not have needed to use the relationship
match in this way.
 Author: Stellar View Messages Posted By Stellar
 Posted: Jun 8, 2020 06:55
 Subject: Re: New Relationship Match
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Stellar (3485)

Location:  Spain, Comunidad Valenciana
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In Catalog, StormChaser writes:
  This page was becoming unwieldy with all the variants and was difficult to maintain:

https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=940

So now we've added this:

https://www.bricklink.com/catalogRelCat.asp?relID=24

Definitions updated:

https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=599

Now when you discover a new mold or print variant, all you have to do is:

1. Submit a comparison image showing the differences.

2. Submit a relationship match.

That's it! Enjoy.

Nice way to see them in one list
 Author: StormChaser View Messages Posted By StormChaser
 Posted: Jun 10, 2020 15:08
 Subject: Re: New Relationship Match
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StormChaser (566)

Location:  USA, Oklahoma
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In Catalog, StormChaser writes:
  So now we've added this:

Eighteen newly-discovered variant notes and pictures added today:

https://www.bricklink.com/catalogRelList.asp?showUsers=Y&v=1&pg=1&relID=24&viewDate=Y

Some are minor differences, but others are the kinds of differences BrickLink
has split parts for in the past. I have to say I'm rather glad we added
this new relationship match. It makes things* much easier.




*And by things, I mean my self-appointed and ongoing task of (a) pointing out
the problems with obsessing over part variants, and (b) providing gentle criticism
of BrickLink's approach to handling them in the catalog.

The irony, of course, is that I have now become the (a) portion of the above
sentence and I am partially responsible for the (b) portion. What a strange
world we inhabit.