My Transactions tab needs major fixes

My Transactions tab needs major fixes

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Posted by: Risingashes.8694

Risingashes.8694

Currently the interface is both cumbersome and ultimately unhelpful, this is due to a variety of poor design decisions that (while understandable for a rushed release) should have been fixed long before now.

Items I’ve Bought and Items I’ve Sold both display single unit transactions out of a stack transaction

This results in a stack taking up to 25 pages of results (often 10-15 for commodities in practice). All of this will be the same information repeated over and over again. This will happen even if you’re not buying two different stacks of items at the same time and the 25 pages are just the same item, at the same price, repeated again and again.

This morning I had to go through 75 pages of the same item repeated just to find my purchase price of an item I bought 6 hours ago.

Solution: Group items in the Items I’m Buying and Items I’m Selling that are the same item and the same price.

Even with the above change, finding a specific item in any of the transactions menus is a nightmare

I’m buying a Mini Snow Leopard at the moment. Trying to find it within my 120 pages of buy orders, and eventually trying to find it within my 34780 pages of buying history is not worth it.

I’m far more likely (as with the majority of items) just to place a new buy order at the market price and then resell the duplicate once the transaction goes through.

This is not the type of behavior players should be pushed in to.

Solution: Add a search feature, just like the inventory search feature, so item history of a particular item can be found immediately, and orders for a particular item can be located immediately.

Even with the above changes, knowing whether your orders are still relevant is a nightmare

So- I have an order for a Mini Snow Leopard since yesterday. It isn’t in my Receive Items tab, so it must be still up there. I open my Items I’m Buying tab and luckily it’s up the top and not 500 pages back. I see the price I listed it at. I click the item, see that someone has 1c overcut me, I go back to the transactions tab, change to Item’s I’m Buying, click cancel order. Go to the item pickup tab, click receive. Go to the Buy Items tab, type in Mini Snow Leopard, click the only result, click Place a Buy Order, type in the amount, click place order.

Solution: Multiple redundancies in this process, but the most obvious one is the fact that current highest listing price is not an available column in the Item’s I’m Buying tab. This information would remove the necessity for jumping between tabs and I’m always amazed it isn’t there. The decision to cancel an order shouldn’t require jumping away from the tab where the action to cancel is made, that’s just poor design.

My Transactions is a single button

This is a big one, but such a minor fix.

Currently there is tons of empty space on the TP sidebar, yet people are forced to go directly to Items I’m Selling when this option is unlikely to always be what people are after. Instead of wasting time the My Transaction should be 4 separate buttons on the TP sidebar, taking the user directly to whichever view they are after.

Moving 10 transactions at a time (as suggested by AirlineDlx.5203)

Allow people to type in the page number they wish to go to, if nothing else in this thread is done. That would at least allow people to guesstimate where in the thousands of transaction pages the relevant information is and jump right to it.

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Posted by: AirlineDlx.5203

AirlineDlx.5203

Totally agree, and i’d also add some kind of browser to be able to choose the page you want to go to in the transactions, just to avoid having to click on the next page until you’re finally on the one you’re looking for.

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Posted by: MyGWAccount.7325

MyGWAccount.7325

or add a web interface that would make browsing our transaction more smooth than in game. or add in a search functionality for past items to be able to sort thru all the other transactions we have done.

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Posted by: Risingashes.8694

Risingashes.8694

Totally agree, and i’d also add some kind of browser to be able to choose the page you want to go to in the transactions, just to avoid having to click on the next page until you’re finally on the one you’re looking for.

That’s a good suggestion. I’ll add it to the main post.

The problem is one of connivance. Currently it’s almost impossible to keep track of things using the current UI.

Whatever solution they put in would be a huge help.

or add a web interface that would make browsing our transaction more smooth than in game. or add in a search functionality for past items to be able to sort thru all the other transactions we have done.

Yeah, the same thing that is done with the inventory currently. If I’m searching for how many Mini Wombats I’ve sold, I shouldn’t have to scroll through 82 pages of Cotton Scraps.

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Posted by: Minion of Vey.4398

Minion of Vey.4398

I’d like for your selling and buying history to just show the last 2 weeks of transactions. That should be more than enough for you to go back and check anything meaningful I would think.

I don’t need to see what price I was flipping copper ore for in September 2012.

Of course, any additional sort by item feature added to the history would be welcome as well.

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Posted by: Eta Carinae.1846

Eta Carinae.1846

Items I’ve Bought and Items I’ve Sold both display single unit transactions out of a stack transaction

This results in a stack taking up to 25 pages of results (often 10-15 for commodities in practice). All of this will be the same information repeated over and over again. This will happen even if you’re not buying two different stacks of items at the same time and the 25 pages are just the same item, at the same price, repeated again and again.

This morning I had to go through 75 pages of the same item repeated just to find my purchase price of an item I bought 6 hours ago.

Solution: Group items in the Items I’m Buying and Items I’m Selling that are the same item and the same price.

Please add a GROUP BY for ‘Item Description’ and ‘Item Price’ to the query and SUM the ‘Quantity’- A simple modification that will be the difference between clicking through multiple pages for a particular item we’ve purchased to displaying a single line.

Name Qty Price
Egg 400 32
versus
Name Qty Price
Egg 3 32
Egg 1 32
Egg 10 32
Egg 4 32
Egg 1 32
Egg 1 32
Egg 30 32
Egg 9 32
Egg 2 32
Egg 3 32
...etc

Regards, Eta

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Posted by: Mystic.5934

Mystic.5934

The ideas I had:
-able to open a second TP window
-a ‘back’ and ‘forward’ button

this thread should be moved to the suggestions forum. a mod probably will do this soon

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Posted by: Risingashes.8694

Risingashes.8694

The ideas I had:
-able to open a second TP window
-a ‘back’ and ‘forward’ button

this thread should be moved to the suggestions forum. a mod probably will do this soon

The suggestions forum is full of people who don’t care about the TP. Doing so would make the thread mayaswell not exist.

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Posted by: Elric Of Melnibone.4781

Elric Of Melnibone.4781

Maybe four buttons is to much to ask but how about two buttons, My Sales and My Purchases which would show active by default and history as an option (with a button, NOT a pull-down).