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I know this has come up before, but was unable to find a thread on it.
My list of downloads -- 838 items, if I counted correctly -- is unmanageably long, especially when some products now come in as many as four versions (Single File, Single File-Lite, One File per Chapter, and One File per Chapter—Lite.)
Of those four versions, there is a 99.999% certainty I will *never* use three of them, and I'd really like the option of suppressing their display in the list. Just by suppressing the alternate versions -- again, if I counted correctly -- my list would immediately shrink from 838 to 623 listed items, a reduction of more than 25%.
Ideally, "Unhide" would not remove the hidden status from all products but would work like see invisibility, revealing what's hidden as a divination without negating the illusion in place; and allowing individual items to be returned to the main list selectively.
Doable?
I'd love to see this as well (mine is more manageable, only 241 items, but still annoying to scroll through multiple listings of the same thing when searching for new purchases or updates), or at the very least the ability to choose a "preferred" version to appear for the multi-version files (e.g. if I choose that I prefer "Single File" then it should automatically hide the other 3 until I change my preference or click a link to show all). Neither option seems particularly straightforward to code though, it's adding a new layer of interactivity where none existed before and likely requires some schema changes.
Hm, I'm wondering if it might be more useful to having visibility toggles for filters on your downloads. IE: filter by company, most recently updated, downloads with multiple variations, already downloaded, et cetera. Do you think that would cover your concerns here?
Hm, I'm wondering if it might be more useful to having visibility toggles for filters on your downloads. IE: filter by company, most recently updated, downloads with multiple variations, already downloaded, et cetera. Do you think that would cover your concerns here?
A tree-view would be super useful.
Paizo, Adventure Paths, Rise of the Runelords, Single File, {files}.
I mean, yeah, you'd be two or three clicks to get to what you want every time, but it's extensible and way, way better than fifty scrolls of the mousewheel.
Filters in addition might be nice, but really, not that critical if a tree-view is used.
Hm, I'm wondering if it might be more useful to having visibility toggles for filters on your downloads. IE: filter by company, most recently updated, downloads with multiple variations, already downloaded, et cetera. Do you think that would cover your concerns here?
Can the filters be combined? E.g. let's say I want to look at things I haven't downloaded yet or have been updated since I last downloaded, but for files with multiple variations I want to only show the "Single File" option; can I do that? If yes, that sounds perfect. If they cannot be combined, then a single filter could not achieve the same level of power as hiding downloads.
Hm, I'm wondering if it might be more useful to having visibility toggles for filters on your downloads. IE: filter by company, most recently updated, downloads with multiple variations, already downloaded, et cetera. Do you think that would cover your concerns here?
Perhaps. With one or two exceptions I don't keep close track of which 3pp's produce what material (and a lot of those purchases are split between here and DriveThruRPG) so my own use of a By Company filter would likely be limited to a toggle of Paizo/Non-Paizo. Others may well get a lot more use out of it than me.
Rather than "most recently updated" (more of a sort than a filter) I'd like to have "updated since my last download."
What would a "downloads with multiple variations" filter do? It's not that I want to filter out, or limit the display to, a partial list of Adventure Paths (the earlier ones didn't have Lite versions); I want to be able to turn off display of the three variations I never use: One File Per Chapter, One File Per Chapter Lite and Single File Lite.
"Already downloaded" would be good so long as it can toggle to "Never downloaded", which is the one I'd use most often. And the multi-variant setting would need to trump this one; that is, if I choose "Never Downloaded" and I have those three variations suppressed for normal display, they'd need to be suppressed here as well.
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Yep, that was the sort of thing I meant. I think I have a grasp of what I want to file a request for in this case from the tech team. No guarantees when it will happen, but I'll make sure it's added to their backlog :)
I'm an analyst-programmer in an understaffed IT group for county government, supporting many different departments* who all believe their project requests should be top priority. Believe me, I understand backlog. :)
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