Merchant Archive
Thread: Feature Request: /vendorSave
Jarob et. al.,
Check outthe Merchant EmailProcessortool in my sig. It processes the /mailSave into an XML doc and the app comes with semi-colon delimited XSL so you can openthe XML filein IE or Netscape and copy and paste the content into a text document and then import into Excel or anything else. Sounds more complicated than it is. It's easy, and at least for vendor/bazzar sales takes the /mailSave out of the pure 'geek' realm.
I am also releasing a mail manager soon that will allow some basic email organization and viewing.
If they release a /vendorSave in any form you can guarantee I will write an app to process it. So just get them to do it in ANY parsable format and I'll do the legwork to make it so you can put it in a database or Excel
Thanks,
DocSavag wrote:
This isn'te really about selling good so much as it is about tracking them. At least that is my impression.
For me it's a web-based inventory that I'd like - ultimately I'd set up an ASP.NET page to parse the output files and emails into a SQL database periodically, and another interface to browse current stock, sales (completed, failed and pulled) and give trends (what sells very quick at current price, what sells reliably) and an archive of valued customers.
I don't see any of that being viable in the game UI (it's too clunky and wouldn't be worth their time I think), so to have a relatively simple export routine would be my preferred solution 
(I doubt that many players are as geeky as me and run a website with SQL server at the back-end :smileywink
In Asheron's Call I used a 3rd party tool "Imp Inventory" to export a character's complete inventory with all the details, then another utility to parse that output into HTML, that was a perfect way to keep an up-to-date list of my items I had for sale
PepeGSay - that's a very interesting tool, I might check that out!
PepeGSay wrote:
Jarob et. al.,
Check outthe Merchant EmailProcessortool in my sig. It processes the /mailSave into an XML doc and the ...
Heh already there, parses the messages to MySQL database and I have web page with sales stats like top selling items, top customers etc.
I want the /vendorSave command so I can run trends and inventory control to identify what needs to be crafted next etc. And I plan to setup warnings that will be sent to the correct person in ADVANCE of runing out by doing trend analysis etc. That way we can keep closer to always being in stock etc.