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Pick-a-Brick inventories
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lugnet.general
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Fri, 23 Jul 2004 11:23:06 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Huw Millington wrote:
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I read with interest the annoucement over in .lego about
http://www.pabtrak.com and, having visited the home page and read what the
site aims to achieve, I thought I’d let you all know about what we in the
Brickish Association have been using to track P-a-B selections in the UK for
the last two years or so.
We have our own ‘bulk tracker’ which until now has been available only to
members, and which is updated by members as and when they visit the various
outlets.
In the interests of generating interest in the subject and maybe influencing
Richard’s development, I have produced a version which is available on the
public side of our website at http://www.brickish.org/bulktracker/.
This public version lacks the ability to update the inventory, which still
needs to be done by BA members, but otherwise it’s feature complete. As you
will see it is only really useful for UK shops, because although we have
some other outlets listed they are not updated very often, due, of course,
to the majority of our members being UK based.
To take it to the stage where non-members can update it requires a bit of
work that I haven’t found time to do, and to be honest the addition of new
parts into the system would need improving prior to any wider launch. But,
it has served us well and is appreciated by our members.
I look forward to seeing Richard’s system, and welcome your comments about
mine.
Huw
Webmaster and vice-chairman, The Brickish Association, www.brickish.org
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Later this season I’m going to LegoLand Billund. I intend to buy lots of
elements to finish a large mosaic. But how do I know if the elements I want/need
will be available over there?? (I believe I’m not the only one with this
question)
The BulkTracker for LegoLand Billund hasn’t been updated recently.
Since I’ll be staying in Billund one week, I might find some time to do
something about this.
I haven’t the faintest idea of how others make
inventories at the Lego stores, but I came up with the idea of making a standard
datasheet.
You can find my datasheet at
http://users.skynet.be/maarten.steurbaut/BulkTracker.doc.
It is only a table
in a Word-document (I don’t have a legal or illegal copy of Excel). The elements
currently in my list are the ones I found in the BulkTracker and also the ones
that are clearly visible in the pictures Huw Millington made in the Pick-a-Brick
at Billund (http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=79018). New parts
can easily be added at the end, you can sort by partnumber or description.
I
first intended to insert a picture of every element in my datasheet, but by
doing this, I discovered that the list would become way too long. (item
descriptions are often difficult to distinguish similar elements from each
other, especially if your native language isn’t English ;-) )
If everybody who
makes inventories at the Lego outlets uses the same kind of document/datasheet
(it doesn’t have to be mine, I’m only starting a discussion), I think it could
simplify things a lot for everybody: the one making the inventorie at the shop
just has to check off the items he sees, the one making the update to the
database also has a good overview, and those who need elements will know where
to go.
Did I forget any major colours in my list?
Should I add more items?
Is this a good idea or is there already some kind of standard datasheet?
Let me know !
Maarten
(Unfortunately we still don’t know what PaBTrak will offer us)
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| (...) I like your document. That would have made it easy to grab an initial inventory of a store. Once the initial inventory has been done, I take a sheet showing the last know location of all parts to easily verify if the contents of any bin has (...) (20 years ago, 24-Jul-04, to lugnet.general)
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| I read with interest the annoucement over in .lego about www.pabtrak.com and, having visited the home page and read what the site aims to achieve, I thought I'd let you all know about what we in the Brickish Association have been using to track (...) (20 years ago, 12-May-04, to lugnet.general) !
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