How to maintain dual inventories

[rob]

The easiest solution that I can think of is to maintain the collection as a
completely separate entity. When you import data files, you can specify the
folder to put them in. So, import each set of data files twice. One set is
used exclusively for tracking your collection, with the other used for your
"play box". The latter is the one you would build decks against, since
you'll only play with those cards.

If you do this, you'll see two entries for every game system in the "Select
Game System" list. The second column will indicate the folder where the
files are installed. If you establish a convention for naming the
collection set specially, you can ensure that the collection set is always
the first/second one in the list, making it easy to use in a consistent
fashion.

Hope this helps,
Rob


At 06:19 PM 7/1/2003 +1000, you wrote:
>I'm a collector and a player, so I'd like some way of being able to record
>my card inventory by which I'll be able to differentiate between those
>cards in my collection, and those in my play box.


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[rob]

Then make sure to include info about this in the FAQ. Some of you experts
are doing stuff that is really cool, except that most users don't bother
reading anything and WE end up having to answer their support quesitons
repeatedly. If you put the answers in the FAQ, then we can simply respond
with "You'll find this in the FAQ, which can be accessed...". Hopefully,
the user will actually bother to read the REST of the FAQ entries when he
looks for the answer to the first one, eliminating the repeat questions
from users who can't be bothered to read the provided documentation but CAN
be bothered to wait a couple days until we can get back to them with the
answer. Argh....

Thanks, Rob

At 11:56 AM 7/3/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>It's not that big of a deal since the user can display only the styles
>they want to see.
>
>Inventory Management -> Settings -> Restrict Styles
>
>I have autographed as a style for the cards in the WarCry datafiles.


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Rob Bowes wrote:

> Then make sure to include info about this in the FAQ. Some of you experts
> are doing stuff that is really cool, except that most users don't bother
> reading anything and WE end up having to answer their support quesitons
> repeatedly. If you put the answers in the FAQ, then we can simply respond
> with "You'll find this in the FAQ, which can be accessed...". Hopefully,
> the user will actually bother to read the REST of the FAQ entries when he
> looks for the answer to the first one, eliminating the repeat questions
> from users who can't be bothered to read the provided documentation
> but CAN
> be bothered to wait a couple days until we can get back to them with the
> answer. Argh....
>
Sorry. I added it to the FAQ for the next release. Could an option be
provided for Authors to have the FAQ automatically display when new
datafiles are imported?

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[rob]

That's what the release notes mechanism is used for. The release notes
always are shown when a new update is loaded the first time.

Since the FAQ is a webpage that launches a separate application (the
browser), it would be inappropriate to launch it automatically. That needs
to be done solely in response to user invocation. So the release notes are
the ideal mechanism.

-Rob

At 01:19 AM 7/9/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>Sorry. I added it to the FAQ for the next release. Could an option be
>provided for Authors to have the FAQ automatically display when new
>datafiles are imported?


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Rob Bowes wrote:

> That's what the release notes mechanism is used for. The release notes
> always are shown when a new update is loaded the first time.
>
> Since the FAQ is a webpage that launches a separate application (the
> browser), it would be inappropriate to launch it automatically. That
> needs
> to be done solely in response to user invocation. So the release notes
> are
> the ideal mechanism.


ok. that makes more sense.

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