Suggestions for new search

[Artemisia]

Not sure if this is something that can be done easily but it be nice if you could "select" a certain number of receipe's after a search and then display only those.
For example:
Search:
jewelcraft
triv 290-320
Return: 50 receipes

Tick box for receipe's you want to do, and hit a "select" button. Display only those ticked receipes

This would allow you to display a few of them, prepare your ingredients and get ready for a skillup run.

[KyrosKrane]

Interesting idea.

There's a couple of concerns with it, though. First, we generally don't like to use cookies or other tech to save info from page to page. So the recipes you select would have to be from a single page. It's possible to use a few tricks to save recipe selections from multiple pages without requiring cookies, but that increases the complexity of the search exponentially.

Second, if we do restrict the selection to one page, would it really be useful? You can see all the recipes on one page anyway. I think it would be more useful with multiple pages, but that's gonna take a bucketload of work to make it happen.

[Artemisia]

complete noob on how this would work, was just a suggestion, and sure can work around it.

idea came up as i am a real cheapskate when I do TSsing. So I normally look for 3-4 receipe's and then choose cheapest, this would just make it easier.
Ty for looking at it though as is I am pretty pleased with new search as is

[Neebat]

Research Recipes which are not class-specific

When I do a search for research recipes which are restricted to the Necromancer class, I should get only necromancer spells.

Instead, I get all the research recipes known to man, and gnome. It seems the "class-restricted" logic is being triggered because all research is archetype-restricted. Needs a tweak.

[KyrosKrane]

Hmm. I think there's a small bug in the search. Here's the reply I was going to post:

That's actually working as intended. By default, the recipe search asks, "What recipes can a necromancer attempt?" For a necromancer, the correct answer is necro-only combines plus all general INT-class combines.

To get the result you want, select Necro in the drop-down box, then click Advanced Options and check the "Show ONLY" box at the bottom. This changes the search; now it asks the question, "What items can ONLY a necro make?"

Then I actually went and tested it. It's not working like that. Even with the Show Only box checked, you're getting all INT-restricted combines, which isn't the intent.

I can sorta understand why it's happening. (At least, this is my best guess without diving into the code, and I just don't have time for that now.) The check box makes the search only look for combines that have "any" restriction on them, then the class-filtering logic restricts it only to the selected class (or race, if that's what you choose). The problem is, the class restriction automatically adds INT-restricted combines to any INT-class search. I have to add a check to prevent that when the Show Only box is checked.

[KyrosKrane]

Huh. The correction turned out to be easier than I thought. It was a copy/paste error where I just copied too much. I just removed the extra code and now it works.

[Neebat]

Huh. The correction turned out to be easier than I thought. It was a copy/paste error where I just copied too much. I just removed the extra code and now it works.

Beautiful! Works like a charm. :-)

[Saviant]

Commands given incomplete

Hi guys,

i don't mean to be a nitpicker, but on the main page it says

You can do a lookup directly on any item by typing the following into your chat bar:
/www eqtraders.com/i?

this command does't actually work in EQ. Its supposed to be:
/url www.eqtraders.com/i?

Just a fyi.

Have fun tradeskilling,

Saviant @ AB.

[KyrosKrane]

Both work. It's not /www(dot)eqtraders.com, it's /www (space) eqtraders.com.