Author:  chetzler  Posted:  Jun 6, 2015 13:19  Subject:  Re: Orders Download Feature  Viewed:  31 times  Topic:  Suggestions Cancel Reply

BrickLink ID Card chetzler (2352) Location:  USA, Minnesota Member Since Contact Type Status Feb 12, 2005 Seller  Store: Lost Boys' Brick Shop

In Suggestions, jeffmcclain writes:    Hello, It would sure help out a LOT if in the "download orders" list, you could separate out the "Item Description" to be 3 separate columns: Type (brick, plate, tile, slope, etc), Description (1x3, round, etc.), and Color, rather than it all combined. This would make it MUCH easier to pivot by item number, type, color, etc. Thanks! Jeff I've had the same difficulty. I even asked about it here a while back but surprisingly, I didn't get a single response: http://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=899185

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Orders Download Feature - jeffmcclain (270)

Hello, It would sure help out a LOT if in the "download orders" list, you could separate out the "Item Description" to be 3 separate columns: Type (brick, plate, tile, [...] (110 months ago, Jun 6, 2015, to Suggestions)

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Re: Orders Download Feature - jeffmcclain (270)

[...] I'm going to just have to put it through a perl REGEX match on that field (duplicated) and match everything up to the color: s/^(.*?)(black|white|tan|blue|gray|red|yellow|orange|green).*/$1/i [...] (110 months ago, Jun 6, 2015, to Suggestions)

5 Messages in this Thread:

 Msg 1 - jeffmcclain (270) 110 months ago Jun 6, 2015 to Suggestions
 Msg 2 « - chetzler (2352) 110 months ago Jun 6, 2015 to Suggestions
 Msg 3 - jeffmcclain (270) 110 months ago Jun 6, 2015 to Suggestions
 Msg 4 - 62Bricks (1455) 110 months ago Jun 6, 2015 to Suggestions
 Msg 5 - jeffmcclain (270) 110 months ago Jun 8, 2015 to Suggestions