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| | | Author: | calsbricks  | | Posted: | Jul 9, 2021 08:48 | | Subject: | Bricklink Part Out feature | | Viewed: | 157 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| The Bricklink part out feature needs work and a revisit
For almost 10 years we have been using Brickstock to do our part outs and then
uploading the xml file to Bricklink. Due to the recent changes to the catalogue
surrounding minifig to minifigure this has become laborious (Minifig images and
price information will not load into Brickstock). I know about Brickstore and
am considering it but the part out in BL is archaic to say the least. No permanent
record of the parting out other than a part out log which says you parted out
this set with no backup information whatsoever. It also causes problems with
pricing because you cannot see your existing prices without a lot of fiddling.
Bricklink needs to combine the features of the 3rd party products to offer a
fully functional part out facility and it needs to store the results of the part
out not just a date in the log.
I wonder if this is in the “sellers tools” functionality that has been talked
about for 8 years now and really has not materialised.
Lots of development time on conformance – fine that is required but what else
is going on? Please do not tell me it is XP
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| | | | | Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Jul 9, 2021 09:06 | | Subject: | Re: Bricklink Part Out feature | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| In Problem, calsbricks writes:
| | […] Due to the recent changes to the catalogue
surrounding minifig to minifigure this has become laborious (Minifig images and
price information will not load into Brickstock). […]
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Hmm, are you sure it’s not because BrickLink ditched insecure TLS 1.0 on its
servers and BrickStock has not been updated in a while and is thus unable to
use TLS 1.2 or 1.3?
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| | | | | | | Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jul 9, 2021 09:17 | | Subject: | Re: Bricklink Part Out feature | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| In Problem, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Problem, calsbricks writes:
| | […] Due to the recent changes to the catalogue
surrounding minifig to minifigure this has become laborious (Minifig images and
price information will not load into Brickstock). […]
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Hmm, are you sure it’s not because BrickLink ditched insecure TLS 1.0 on its
servers and BrickStock has not been updated in a while and is thus unable to
use TLS 1.2 or 1.3?
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No we are not sure however everything other than minifigs works, so it would
be difficult to see how all other items would work and minifigs will not - especially
as that had a category name change to minfigures
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| | | | | Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Jul 9, 2021 09:07 | | Subject: | Re: Bricklink Part Out feature | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| In Problem, calsbricks writes:
| | The Bricklink part out feature needs work and a revisit
For almost 10 years we have been using Brickstock to do our part outs and then
uploading the xml file to Bricklink. Due to the recent changes to the catalogue
surrounding minifig to minifigure this has become laborious (Minifig images and
price information will not load into Brickstock). I know about Brickstore and
am considering it but the part out in BL is archaic to say the least. No permanent
record of the parting out other than a part out log which says you parted out
this set with no backup information whatsoever. It also causes problems with
pricing because you cannot see your existing prices without a lot of fiddling.
Bricklink needs to combine the features of the 3rd party products to offer a
fully functional part out facility and it needs to store the results of the part
out not just a date in the log.
I wonder if this is in the “sellers tools” functionality that has been talked
about for 8 years now and really has not materialised.
Lots of development time on conformance – fine that is required but what else
is going on? Please do not tell me it is XP
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You're right, this is long overdue. It's error prone and doesn't
offer a lot of functionality. But since it apparently takes 10 months and counting
to even fix parts appearing in the correct order like they have for 20 years
(e.g. plates in ascending dimensions), I'm not even in the mood to start
brainstorming on what needs to be done. However, if LEGO wants my input, on a
panel or something, they can ask for it and I will give it.
For one thing, it's just silly that there even are boxes for things like
prices or remarks when on the previous screen you've said you want to use
the old data. So that's a whole lot of UI greebles that don't do anything.
Just a small thing but it contributes to making it confusing.
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| | | | | | | Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jul 9, 2021 09:21 | | Subject: | Re: Bricklink Part Out feature | | Viewed: | 56 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| In Problem, Teup writes:
| | In Problem, calsbricks writes:
| | The Bricklink part out feature needs work and a revisit
For almost 10 years we have been using Brickstock to do our part outs and then
uploading the xml file to Bricklink. Due to the recent changes to the catalogue
surrounding minifig to minifigure this has become laborious (Minifig images and
price information will not load into Brickstock). I know about Brickstore and
am considering it but the part out in BL is archaic to say the least. No permanent
record of the parting out other than a part out log which says you parted out
this set with no backup information whatsoever. It also causes problems with
pricing because you cannot see your existing prices without a lot of fiddling.
Bricklink needs to combine the features of the 3rd party products to offer a
fully functional part out facility and it needs to store the results of the part
out not just a date in the log.
I wonder if this is in the “sellers tools” functionality that has been talked
about for 8 years now and really has not materialised.
Lots of development time on conformance – fine that is required but what else
is going on? Please do not tell me it is XP
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You're right, this is long overdue. It's error prone and doesn't
offer a lot of functionality. But since it apparently takes 10 months and counting
to even fix parts appearing in the correct order like they have for 20 years
(e.g. plates in ascending dimensions), I'm not even in the mood to start
brainstorming on what needs to be done. However, if LEGO wants my input, on a
panel or something, they can ask for it and I will give it.
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Is that a hint? ??  Tanja are you listening?
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For one thing, it's just silly that there even are boxes for things like
prices or remarks when on the previous screen you've said you want to use
the old data. So that's a whole lot of UI greebles that don't do anything.
Just a small thing but it contributes to making it confusing.
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Yesw I am sure we could all go on about what is needed adn would be willing to
help draw up a list of requirements for them to build a design around - maybe
the panel is the place for that. We shall see.
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