Suggestions/Ideas/problems? - Page 2

October 3rd, 2002, 12:57 PM

--- traderjim42 <traderjim@prhobbies.com> wrote:
> Thanks,
>
> --Trader Jim
>
> >5. Your card numbers aren't based on 3 card numbers, so when you
> >order by card number you get...
> >
> >1
> >10
> >100
> >101
> >102
> >103 ...
>
> 5. Lord of the Rings is the one that I know about.

This is easy enough to fix, the author just needs to change the numbers to
"001", "010", "100", etc. I will forward this on to the author.

> >>6. The batch edit for Sell price and Buy price don't work...
> >
> >It all works fine for me. Most likely, you are updating a DIFFERENT
> >card
> >quality within Batch Editing vis-a-vis the quality that you are
> >displaying
> >within the inventory window. Click on the little triangle button
> >next to
> >the Quality display within Inventory and select "Show Quality
> >Ratings". You ought to see the price listed for the quality that you
> >specified it for.
> >Within Batch Editing, you can use the droplist to specify which card
> >quality to you want to set the value for. The default quality is
> >specified via the Settings button within Inventory.
>
> 6. I got it to work, Thanks! How can I do a mass change to move cards
> from "unspecified" to "mint".

There should be a drop-down that selects quality on the right hand side of the
batch edit window...

first, change the "unspecified" values to 0

then set the drop-down to "mint" and set the new prices.

=====
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Kuni Tetsu
Clan War rules guy
Moderator of ClanWar-l

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rob · October 3rd, 2002, 01:35 PM

You can't move cards from one quality classification to another within Card
Vault. So.....

The solution is to export the cards to XML, do a text conversion on that
file, and then bring the data back into CV. Where it gets complicated is if
you only want to do this to a PORTION of your entire inventory. I'll assume
that you want to process the entire inventory. If that's not the case, let
me know and I'll outline how to do this for a portion of the inventory.

1. MAKE A BACKUP! The steps I'm going to outline will be physically
changing (read: destroying) your existing inventory. So save a backup just
in case things go horribly wrong. The file you need to save is named
"inv.cvz" and will be found in the folder where the game system data files
reside. For example, if you are working with LotR and CV was installed in
the default location, the file will be "C:\CardVault\data\inv.cvz".

2. Launch CV and go into the inventory manager for the game system.

3. Click on the "Tools" button.

4. Select the "Save to XML" option, then specify the file to create via the
"Browse" button. Make sure to check the 3 options for what to include, but
do NOT check the "Restrict Output" option.

5. Click on the "Save XML" button to generate the XML file.

6. Open the XML file you generated within a text editor.

7. Do a global search and replace from [quality="unknown"] to
[quality="mint"]. Then save the changes.

8. Click on the "Tools" button again.

9. Select the "Reset Inventory to Empty" option, then click the "Reset"
button at the bottom. WARNING! This will DELETE your current inventory. You
DID save a backup, right? Just checking.

10. Click on the "Tools" button one more time. Third time's a charm, right?

11. This time, select the "Load from XML" option, and specify the same file
you just created and modified as the file to be loaded.

12. Click the "Load XML" button and your modified inventory contents should
now be loaded.

Hope this helps,
Rob

At 08:08 PM 10/3/2002 +0000, you wrote:
>6. I got it to work, Thanks! How can I do a mass change to move cards
>from "unspecified" to "mint".

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October 3rd, 2002, 05:07 PM

--- In cardvault@y..., Rob Bowes <rob@w...> wrote:
> At 03:11 PM 10/1/2002 +0000, you wrote:
> >9. I found the problem. Several of the LOTR cards have special
> >charactors in their names. Excel doesn't know what to do with those,
> >if you change them out in the raw XML then it imports just fine.
>
> What are the special characters that Excel barfs on? It may be that
> something can be done to handle those characters differently when
exporting
> the XML data, so any assistance with this would be welcome.

Yah, my bad. What I get for grabbing the card names from the
Decipher web site. I'll have to get that fixed, along with the
card-numbering issue. That'll be a little harder, as I'm also using
the card number as part of the card *ID*, and we certainly don't want
to see what happens when I change *that*...

> >And hell if Rob can give me professional *and* affordable child-care,
> >God bless him... :-)
>
> Uh, yeah. Just put that one on the todo list. I'll see if I can get
to that
> one as soon as I have world peace and world hunger handled.... :-P

OK, there are two good items to start with - and both will be
easier than HeroClix data files!

Mark, finally joining the party.

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October 4th, 2002, 07:08 AM

Excellent!

This worked perfectly...

Next question... When you "output" to html, there is a Column called
Owned with 2 sub columns Qty (Quanity) and Value ($$). Where is that
value? Sell price?

Thanks,

--Trader Jim

--- In cardvault@y..., Rob Bowes <rob@w...> wrote:
> You can't move cards from one quality classification to another
within Card
> Vault. So.....
>
> The solution is to export the cards to XML, do a text conversion on
that
> file, and then bring the data back into CV. Where it gets
complicated is if
> you only want to do this to a PORTION of your entire inventory.
I'll assume
> that you want to process the entire inventory. If that's not the
case, let
> me know and I'll outline how to do this for a portion of the
inventory.
>
> 1. MAKE A BACKUP! The steps I'm going to outline will be physically
> changing (read: destroying) your existing inventory. So save a
backup just
> in case things go horribly wrong. The file you need to save is
named
> "inv.cvz" and will be found in the folder where the game system
data files
> reside. For example, if you are working with LotR and CV was
installed in
> the default location, the file will be "C:\CardVault\data\inv.cvz".
>
> 2. Launch CV and go into the inventory manager for the game system.
>
> 3. Click on the "Tools" button.
>
> 4. Select the "Save to XML" option, then specify the file to create
via the
> "Browse" button. Make sure to check the 3 options for what to
include, but
> do NOT check the "Restrict Output" option.
>
> 5. Click on the "Save XML" button to generate the XML file.
>
> 6. Open the XML file you generated within a text editor.
>
> 7. Do a global search and replace from [quality="unknown"] to
> [quality="mint"]. Then save the changes.
>
> 8. Click on the "Tools" button again.
>
> 9. Select the "Reset Inventory to Empty" option, then click
the "Reset"
> button at the bottom. WARNING! This will DELETE your current
inventory. You
> DID save a backup, right? Just checking.
>
> 10. Click on the "Tools" button one more time. Third time's a
charm, right?
>
> 11. This time, select the "Load from XML" option, and specify the
same file
> you just created and modified as the file to be loaded.
>
> 12. Click the "Load XML" button and your modified inventory
contents should
> now be loaded.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Rob
>
> At 08:08 PM 10/3/2002 +0000, you wrote:
> >6. I got it to work, Thanks! How can I do a mass change to move
cards
> >from "unspecified" to "mint".
>
>
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> Rob Bowes (rob@w...) (559) 658-6995
> Lone Wolf Development
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rob · October 6th, 2002, 02:16 PM

The card number issue shouldn't be too rough. When outputting the card
number TAGS (and NOT the IDs), simply format the output to include leading
zeroes. You don't have to change any of the numbering, nor do you have to
do anything special with the converter outside of the one place where you
generate the card number tag. CV will still do a perfectly good job of
doing value extraction from the card number tags if you use them for any
other purpose (e.g. in rules or stats).

Hope this helps,
Rob

At 01:07 AM 10/4/2002 +0000, you wrote:
> Yah, my bad. What I get for grabbing the card names from the
>Decipher web site. I'll have to get that fixed, along with the
>card-numbering issue. That'll be a little harder, as I'm also using
>the card number as part of the card *ID*, and we certainly don't want
>to see what happens when I change *that*...

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rob · October 6th, 2002, 02:20 PM

The "value" of cards "owned" and "excess" is the SELL price assigned to
them. The value of cards to "acquire" is the BUY price.

Hope this helps,
Rob

At 03:04 PM 10/4/2002 +0000, you wrote:
>Next question... When you "output" to html, there is a Column called
>Owned with 2 sub columns Qty (Quanity) and Value ($$). Where is that
>value? Sell price?

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