When/How does Portal calculate the 'actual' value? Does it do it at startup, or dynamically as you add/remove stock, or when you submit the shop front?
I ask as mine, after closing it and opening it again, has the Actual value at 4M, and the Sell value at 2M, and none of the items in my shop are priced lower than I purchased. It is a database that is new and was created with the Beta 4 as well.
I know this is NOT going to be implemented, but I just wanted to write this idea down anyway :)
re: items with the same name, an advanced feature to 'append last digit of price to item name' would be a sweet type of feature to add for those items. It would require too much extra parsing logic I think (especially since it would have to be for both Submit Shop Front and Submit Sales History), but would be uber useful for a tiny handful of items that only a small portion of people deal with.
[quote=zixianna]When/How does Portal calculate the 'actual' value? Does it do it at startup, or dynamically as you add/remove stock, or when you submit the shop front?
I ask as mine, after closing it and opening it again, has the Actual value at 4M, and the Sell value at 2M, and none of the items in my shop are priced lower than I purchased. It is a database that is new and was created with the Beta 4 as well.[/quote]
it does it when you click the graph. The calculation for value of stock is sum(cost x number in stock according to portal)
The value is what you submitted in shop front
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[quote=saudor]it does it when you click the graph[/quote]
How long does it take to do all the calculations on that page? I'm assuming not long at all, even if you have a large amount of stock? If that's the case, as a User Interface thing, it may be better to call all of the functions each time you show the form, since I don't think there's anything you can do that would affect the numbers (Sales or Overall) or graphs without that form being hidden to access one of the others.
You could leave all the functions as is, but just call them all as if clicked with the form.show?
Yeah i will. It's still beta so i imagined it would lag alot. But that doesnt seem to be the case. That command is currently commented out anyways
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Here's a silly one: Can the item listbox for managing stock be made at least 1 character wider?
I'm not sure about other items, but "World Challenge Piece Lost Desert 1.xx" gets cut off just before the last digit, and the last digit is what differentiates the pieces (and those are the official names, not the 'add a digit to the end workaround' for same name items).
The item name also cuts off about 1.8 characters before the end in the bottom item info section (though there you can scroll over to see the end of the item name at least).
Aha! I've got another one, I think it's borderline possible though, maybe be too much:
Saved Searches under 'Check For'! You've got at least 3 blank spots in the Filter For box, make them 'user assigned searches' that can save a query from the Advanced Search box. Extra useful if the other search modifications are made :) I would so set up a couple pre-saved searches right now for mine :)
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aha, wow I just noticed my name is in the portal :P
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How about another line or two on the graphs - a line for 'most amount of stock in Actual and Sell NP'. That way one can watch the value of their stock (assuming correct prices) rise and fall over time, and compare them with the actual sales and profits.
It would be very handy in finding an optimized overall markup balance point I think.
Of course, this would be best with the 'hits counter' graph line as well, but you already nixed that one I believe (and possibly all graph lines? :) ).
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it does it when you click the graph. The calculation for value of stock is sum(cost x number in stock according to portal)
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I would also suggest dynamic updating of the Sell value as well. My 'Actual' value has slowly overtaken the Actual value. Being in the 'maps' business, I am going to avoid submitting my shop front as much as possible, and frankly will only do it to reset the 'Ignored Items' flag for the entire shop (something I actively want to AVOID most of the time).
edit: Directly related, how about an admin button for 'reset ignored items', so they're all set back to 0 in stock? I think I can do it with Notepad++ for the time being, but that'll be a pain :)
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