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Post by GSV3MIaC on Sept 6, 2014 18:20:22 GMT
Well, they are probably better than the old ones, once you get used to them all being Iframes, but they do mess up scripting _ they're all java so there is nothing on the webpage to play with until after it finishes executing, even then nothing has a static name you can hook to.. By the time I get a handle on these I'll probably have reverse engineered the whole damn API!!
Having loan part as a separate column is a good idea and well overdue.
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Post by blender on Sept 6, 2014 18:27:09 GMT
Well, they are probably better than the old ones, once you get used to them all being Iframes, but they do mess up scripting _ they're all java so there is nothing on the webpage to play with until after it finishes executing, even then nothing has a static name you can hook to.. By the time I get a handle on these I'll probably have reverse engineered the whole damn API!! Having loan part as a separate column is a good idea and well overdue. Maybe they do not wish to make scripting easy. Agree about the loan part column. There is now a 250 part page limit on the loan parts for sale tab, which is a nuisance, and it could do with a search.
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Post by GSV3MIaC on Sept 6, 2014 19:24:06 GMT
Yes, I noticed it had gone down from 1000 to 250. I guess this is tacit admission that the server is struggling. The 'sell my parts' Page was the one which was always dire, because of the way every box tick or drop down change invoked their server. Seems a bit better now, not that I personally tick any boxes.
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Post by chrisf on Sept 7, 2014 16:12:57 GMT
I find the new pages fine when I am at home using Chrome, but they unfortunately don't work when I'm at work using a fairly old version of Explorer (IE8 I think, and I don't have priviledges to do an upgrade or download a better browser). When I say they don't work, I can look at sold parts and see what I've got up for sale, but the 'sell individually' tab is just an empty page. This is annoying when I see my amount lent has jumped up and I want to go to 'sell individually' and look what is at the end of the list to see who I have just lent to. I can live with this, but what could potentially be much worse would be that I hear a rumour here which makes me want to sell something quickly, but I can't until I get home, by which time the loan could be downgraded. Maybe I will see if I can do it on my phone.
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Post by GSV3MIaC on Sept 7, 2014 20:38:30 GMT
I should report it to them Chris, the page looks as though it is supposed to work with IE8 .. no reason why not (OK, IE5 might be an issue!).
I do wish they'd figure out how to let us dry run or beta test these changes, or have some way to fall back to the old version, or whatever, but mostly we just get an 'it's changed' (some time after it changes). And 'minor tweak', in this case, is a complete rewrite of how the page works.. it might look (mostly) the same, but under the hood it is radically different .. better (when it is debugged), but definitely a new animal.
Now if we had the API, we could see that there is a whole lot of extra info coming to that page (by way of Java) that is not displayed (like next payment date, always handy to know when selling).
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Post by Mike on Sept 8, 2014 2:59:32 GMT
Well, they are probably better than the old ones, once you get used to them all being Iframes, but they do mess up scripting _ they're all java so there is nothing on the webpage to play with until after it finishes executing, even then nothing has a static name you can hook to.. By the time I get a handle on these I'll probably have reverse engineered the whole damn API!! Having loan part as a separate column is a good idea and well overdue. Maybe they do not wish to make scripting easy. Agree about the loan part column. There is now a 250 part page limit on the loan parts for sale tab, which is a nuisance, and it could do with a search. You can always revert to dirty scripting through the iMacros plugin - which initially doesn't need much skill. Although still needs to be changed as often as the page, which seems to be often enough it's not worth it at the moment
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Post by GSV3MIaC on Sept 10, 2014 9:12:59 GMT
Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm deeper into the guts than that (and I wouldn't buy the paid version, which you'd probably need). Someone in the other place suggested an auto-delist function to match autosell, or even a 'tick all the boxes' button. I sorted it eventually by resorting to XMLHTTP request(s).
I do see that 'loan parts sold' have now had the java/json makeover, which would be OK if they hadbn't broken it so it defaults to 'sort by loan parts ID' whenever you visit the page .. takes at least two more clicks to get what you usually want (most recently sold first, in my case, and I suspect that of many others). Only the time team would want to see the lowest number loan parts every time (and it never changes)?!
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Post by blender on Sept 10, 2014 10:49:31 GMT
Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm deeper into the guts than that (and I wouldn't buy the paid version, which you'd probably need). Someone in the other place suggested an auto-delist function to match autosell, or even a 'tick all the boxes' button. I sorted it eventually by resorting to XMLHTTP request(s). I do see that 'loan parts sold' have now had the java/json makeover, which would be OK if they hadbn't broken it so it defaults to 'sort by loan parts ID' whenever you visit the page .. takes at least two more clicks to get what you usually want (most recently sold first, in my case, and I suspect that of many others). Only the time team would want to see the lowest number loan parts every time (and it never changes)?! Spooky! I had just logged in to make the same comment. When you go to 'loan parts sold' it is usually to see what you just or recently sold, and it is irritating to have to change the order twice to see that. I am sure this is just an oversight and that FC would readily change it, if brought to their attention.
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Post by GSV3MIaC on Sept 10, 2014 15:52:18 GMT
I raised it 'over there', but I only hit them with the 2x4, which probably doesn't get their attention any more .. probably needs a 4x8 at least.
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Post by GSV3MIaC on Sept 24, 2014 21:08:42 GMT
Ah, it actually seems to have gotten fixed .. Barely took two weeks!!
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