Author:  par016  Posted:  Jan 30, 2015 10:16  Subject:  Wanted Lists  Viewed:  192 times  Topic:  Suggestions  Status: Implemented Cancel Reply

BrickLink ID Card par016 (7681) Location:  USA, New York Member Since Contact Type Status Apr 30, 2013 Seller  Store: Boston Red Blocks

Maybe it's just me but there are a few features I would like to see added/changed on Wanted Lists. I am not a big fan of making suggestions for problems that could be considered small "inconveniences." I would rather have BrickLink work on more complex issues. Sometimes there are workarounds I don't know about and maybe someone has an easy solution here but I find I spend way too much time organizing my wanted list after placing an order. There are some features that could really make it easier. To give you an idea of why I am suggesting this let me walk you through how I organize my wanted lists. If you want to skip right to the suggestions just go down to the bold text below. When I set up my wanted lists I generally make a new list for each major project I am working on. I also have 1 wanted list for sets and 1 for all the pieces on projects where I am just missing a few pieces. On every item though I place a remark that says what project the item is for. As an example I am working on BrickLinking a Grand Carrousel and on all of those pieces I put "GC" in the remark section. After placing an order in a store the first thing I do is pull up the “items in order on wanted list” page and also the order detail page. This is where I spend all my time because I now have to go through these pages line by line THREE times (at least most of the time it is 3 times, sometimes less): 1st time through - I mark which lots I bought that completed ALL the pieces in that lot on my wanted list and then MOVE them to my "On Order" wanted list. So if I had 20 pieces in 1 lot on my wanted list and bought all 20 from that store I would mark the "move" checkbox on the wanted list and move them to "On Order." For those that I didn't buy all the parts in the lot it gets more complicated. For those I have to check the box on the order page to remind myself to come back to those the 2nd time through. 2nd time through - I now have to go back through the list again and mark all of those items where the whole lot wasn’t bought at once, and COPY them to my on order wanted list. So if I bought 12 of the 20 items in one lot I still need 8 to be in the original wanted list and 12 to be in the on order wanted list. However, just copying isn't enough, because now it says I have 20 pieces on my wanted list and 20 pieces on order which we know isn’t true. 3rd time through – Once again I have to go through the lists and now change the numbers on the copied lots to reflect what was actually purchased and what still remains. Using the same example above, I now need to change the lot on my wanted list to show I need 8 and my on order list to show I have 8 coming. On top of all of this there are multiple situations that make this even more difficult and easy to mess up: -Sometimes I have already bought some items from a lot and I have to change the numbers on each wanted list. Say I had bought 12 of the 20 items from one lot and then I buy 5 more from another store. When going through I now have to pay attention to this and change the 12 to 17 and the 8 to 3. -What about when the same part is on multiple wanted lists? Well say I had 20 of an item on wanted list A and 13 of that item on wanted list B and bought 30 from a store because that's all they have; well now when I go through the lists I have to copy one of the lots over to the on order wanted list (can’t do both because, you can’t have the same lot on a wanted list twice). From there I now have to change the quantity to reflect how many I have purchased, but I also have to change the remark to reflect that 20 go with Wanted List A and 13 go with Wanted List B. If I don’t do this I won’t have any idea where these pieces go when I get them. -Also it gets more complicated with only a certain number of items fitting on a wanted list page at a time. I believe the limit is 50. When copying and moving lots between wanted lists this gets very confusing and easy to lose track of lots. I have spent hours organizing wanted lists. Depending on the order size, this can be a simple process or a very complex one. But I think that the time spent here warrants some modification to the way wanted lists work. I explain all of this simply to show you the complexity associated with keeping an organized wanted list when working on multiple projects at the same time. Like I said before, maybe there is an easy workaround and I would love to know it if there is but if there isn’t there are a few changes I would love to see implemented that could greatly simplify this process. I am not sure what the easiest solution would be but these are some suggestions I think would work help greatly: - Make it so you can add a lot onto a wanted list that already has that lot. Right now you get an error when you try to do that but if you could do it anyways and have the option of consolidating the lots / remarks that would be great AND/OR just allow a lot to be on a wanted list more than once. This way I can have two of the same lot with different remarks because they go to different projects. - Make wanted lists capable of showing more than 50 items at once. If an orders page can contain all lots I think that a wanted list should be capable of it as well. -Create some move/copy function that can split the lot. I have 10 items on Wanted List A and I want to move 6 of them to Wanted List B and keep 4 on Wanted List A. -Separate the Move function and the Copy function. This would at the very least allow steps 1 and 2 to be combined. -Update the "Show Items In Order on Wanted List" to include the quantity instead of just the lot. That way it could actually do much of what I am explaining already. This one would probably require a large change to though. Wishful thinking here. Maybe not all of these suggestions are necessary, I am just trying to give some ideas. Thanks to anybody that made it through that rambling mess, I guess that's what I feel Wanted Lists are A Mess. Thanks, Pete

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Re: Wanted Lists - Andy_Bell (2367)

[...] If you use BrickStock and add multiple instances of the same part to the same list it will take it - as long as the item is not already in the list - so this is very [...] (114 months ago, Jan 30, 2015, to Suggestions)

Re: Wanted Lists - jayy2121 (121)

I know I am a novice compared to you, but wanted to share my methodology in case it helps someone out there. I have 2 places I use for info: 1. Bricklink want lists broken out [...] (114 months ago, Jan 30, 2015, to Suggestions)

Re: Wanted Lists - therobo (9706)

[...] Hi Pete, would you also like to see this wanted list feature to be implemented? (URL) (114 months ago, Jan 30, 2015, to Suggestions)

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