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 Author: StarBrick View Messages Posted By StarBrick
 Posted: Jan 25, 2024 02:32
 Subject: Proposed Changes - script instead of manual ?
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StarBrick (7062)

Location:  Netherlands, Gelderland
Member Since Contact Type Status
Oct 18, 2008 Contact Member Seller
Buying Privileges - OKSelling Privileges - OK
Store: StarBrick's BrickShop
On Feb 15th some merging will occur in the database.
No matter what.

This Wednesday I (we?) received a BL message regarding the upcoming change.
With a link to a Help Page. Nice.
Until I clicked it....

If a seller wants to 'add a short line of text' for each lot affected,
sellers need to enterl more than 4000 numbers to check IF they are in their inventory.
And than manually editing the NOTE field.

This will take every seller hours of entering numbers, checking the results,
editing note-fields en checking for the edits to be correctly made.

Urgent request: can BL please provide a script or simple change page where
this actions can be (partially) automated?



Question for Admin_Russell: what happens exactly with my affected inventory entries
when nothing is changed on the sellers end?
 Author: Vosblokjes View Messages Posted By Vosblokjes
 Posted: Jan 25, 2024 12:17
 Subject: Re: Proposed Changes - script instead of manual ?
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 Topic: Catalog
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Vosblokjes (7199)

Location:  Netherlands, Drenthe
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Dec 5, 2014 Contact Member Seller
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In Catalog, StarBrick writes:
  On Feb 15th some merging will occur in the database.
No matter what.

This Wednesday I (we?) received a BL message regarding the upcoming change.
With a link to a Help Page. Nice.
Until I clicked it....

If a seller wants to 'add a short line of text' for each lot affected,
sellers need to enterl more than 4000 numbers to check IF they are in their inventory.
And than manually editing the NOTE field.

This will take every seller hours of entering numbers, checking the results,
editing note-fields en checking for the edits to be correctly made.

Urgent request: can BL please provide a script or simple change page where
this actions can be (partially) automated?



Question for Admin_Russell: what happens exactly with my affected inventory entries
when nothing is changed on the sellers end?

With Notepad++, Excel and BrickStore it took less than an hour to update 416
lots.
No need to go through every single item, this way you can update all 30387pbxxx
(for example_ in 1 go, same with 3626b**** and 3626c****
 Author: Stellar View Messages Posted By Stellar
 Posted: Jan 26, 2024 05:05
 Subject: Re: Proposed Changes - script instead of manual ?
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Stellar (3492)

Location:  Spain, Comunidad Valenciana
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Sep 24, 2015 Contact Member Seller
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In Catalog, BasKrie writes:
  In Catalog, StarBrick writes:
  On Feb 15th some merging will occur in the database.
No matter what.

This Wednesday I (we?) received a BL message regarding the upcoming change.
With a link to a Help Page. Nice.
Until I clicked it....

If a seller wants to 'add a short line of text' for each lot affected,
sellers need to enterl more than 4000 numbers to check IF they are in their inventory.
And than manually editing the NOTE field.

This will take every seller hours of entering numbers, checking the results,
editing note-fields en checking for the edits to be correctly made.

Urgent request: can BL please provide a script or simple change page where
this actions can be (partially) automated?



Question for Admin_Russell: what happens exactly with my affected inventory entries
when nothing is changed on the sellers end?

With Notepad++, Excel and BrickStore it took less than an hour to update 416
lots.
No need to go through every single item, this way you can update all 30387pbxxx
(for example_ in 1 go, same with 3626b**** and 3626c****

I did this too pretty quick, just split screen one side Brickstore and the other
side this page:

https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=2626