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Subject: 
"My Collection" download page
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lugnet.announce, lugnet.people
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Date: 
Mon, 7 Apr 2003 00:37:12 GMT
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I just added a quick "download" page feature for members who maintain
personal set listings using LUGNET's Set Guide.  This lets you download data
in a simple tab-separated text format which you can import into your favorite
spreadsheet program or whatever application you like.

Where is it?  It's kind of a bit hidden currently.  As you may already know,
if you click on "My Collection" from a set page, you go to a listing page
with a table showing all your sets and piece counts.  What I just added there
is a link to a "raw" version of the same page, which spits out the data as
plain text instead of an HTML table page.  So if you're signed in and you look
at your own data, you'll see all of it (public and private).  If someone else
is looking at your data, they'll only see your public set information.

Lemme know if you have any trouble finding the download link.  We'll be
making these and other member-related links easier to find in the next few
weeks as we get the members.lugnet.com subdomain more ready.

For convenience, we may also provide the public data at some point as a
single huge download file that anyone can use for statistical analysis on
ownership of sets or for other potentially useful/interesting applications.

--Todd



Message has 6 Replies:
  Re: "My Collection" download page
 
(...) <snip> Cool addition, Todd! Thanks Richie (22 years ago, 7-Apr-03, to lugnet.people)
  Re: "My Collection" download page
 
(...) <snip> (...) Thanks, Todd. BTW, while you are at it, would it be possible to add a link to the Lugnet home page to take us to our own page when we are logged in? Regards, SteveM IndyLUG (22 years ago, 7-Apr-03, to lugnet.people)
  Re: "My Collection" download page
 
Thanks dude, This'll help a lot considering I used to have to plug one set in at a time into an Excel worksheet. Hasta la Vista, Sean (22 years ago, 7-Apr-03, to lugnet.people)
  Re: "My Collection" download page
 
Hmpf. And I who took such pride in my converting of such data by copy/paste it into Notepad and edit the lines until Excel would easily import it. Wohoo! One source of wrist ache gone! Dan and Jennifer of that marvelous Peeron, this I'd like to see (...) (22 years ago, 7-Apr-03, to lugnet.people)
  Re: "My Collection" download page
 
Cool. Thanks Todd! I just started my own Access application to keep track of my Lego (among other collections me and my NLSO have). This will help to fill the database a lot faster ;-) Once again: thanks! /\/\ark "now only the other collections to (...) (22 years ago, 7-Apr-03, to lugnet.people)
  Re: "My Collection" download page
 
(...) Is there any way it could be linked from somewhere else? I know I have an old computer and software (586, rather spend money on LEGO), but Netscape (4.08) freezes after getting 652K of the list at "My Collection" (or anyone elses big list). (...) (22 years ago, 7-Apr-03, to lugnet.people)

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