dave said:It's in the menubar at the top of the page. It looks like a link from a chain. Click on it to access your custom links.

Wow, thanks for the information about the chain. I had been wondering where all my helpful links had gone now that we no longer have that blue area on the left.

dave said:It's in the menubar at the top of the page. It looks like a link from a chain. Click on it to access your custom links.

Here is a screenshot of my homescreen. I'm not seeing an image of a link...is it just me?


Did I misunderstand something you said?

Even if I did see the link, though, I think my request to have the ability to put custom links on the homepage might still stand. If I have to click on a button at the top and (presumably?) scroll through a list of custom links at the top of the page, at that point I might as well click on the Tools, click on seed swaps, and get to the swap from there, right?

It won't show up until after you add some custom links. No reason to show an empty icon that does nothing.

Then I must have put my custom link in the wrong place, because I did add a link. Hmm...

This is what I filled out to add the link previously:

...is that where you meant for me to put it, or was there somewhere else I was supposed to?

(I'll try it again in case there was a glitch....)

Got it! I suspect it was a glitch with my wireless keyboard (it acts up periodically). That would explain why the link wasn't there when I went into it today, either...I must not have actually hit the save button when I (thought I) hit the 'enter' key after putting the info in. I need a new keyboard/wireless transmitter. (It has taken me five minutes just to write this post because my keyboard, coincidentally, started acting up again after the first several words in this post--go figure. )

Now that I've finally got it to work, I really like that feature! For as long as the link is the only one in my links tab, it makes it a slightly easier way to navigate back to the swap homepage on the swap pages that don't have the ability to go back to the swap homepage.

The only things in my custom link dropdown is the current Seed Swap I am in, and My Plant List. It's pretty handy. Might be nicer if they were listed in the top menu bar next to Tools & Apps, and Community, but this works fine.

Libby, your keyboard heard you bad-mouthing it, and got even.

Many people think that the "Terminator" movies are about the distant future.
They must never have gotten their PC mad at them!

LoL, Rick, I think you're right. I'm actually looking at an alternative, more portable means of doing all of my seed entries, seed swap stuff, and general perusing of this site and others. I'd like to get a 2-in-1 tablet/laptop so that I can multi-task and do stuff here on the site or in PlantStep while watching TV or a movie.


Back to the specific topic at hand, though...

8) A 'Clear-All'/'Clear Selected' option for the seed list
When a swap is finished, it would be nice to have a way to quickly clear out the previous entries from the list that you no longer need for future swaps. A check-box feature might work nicely to this effect where, at the bottom, you have the option to "Clear All" or "Clear only check-marked items" and then it would ask you to confirm that you wish to delete those items from your list (to avoid any accidental 'clear all' click mishaps). If preferred, maybe the option could be presented to 'Mark all as Not Ready' and 'Mark selected items as Not Ready'.

Now that I've been through one I heartily agree that it would be nice to be able to sort the list by flower, herb, shrub, tree, etc. I'd also like to be able to sort for the active offers so I don't have to go through so many pages looking for them.

Thanks Dave!

Lalambchop1 said:I'd also like to be able to sort for the active offers so I don't have to go through so many pages looking for them.

This is something you can already do. When viewing the list, at the top check off the box to exclude items that are unobtainable. Then items you already placed dibs on, as well as zero-quantity items, will not show in the list.

Thanks Dave! I should have known you'd have that one covered.

Not sure if this has been mentioned already.... Is there a way to see "the add something to your list" either opening as a pop up window or going right back to what you added when you close it? And or being able to check it off and make it available before closing? Or adding more than one at a time? Seems to be a lot of clicking and scrolling to get back to what I added to make it show.

Ronnie, I don't recall that as ever being agreed to. A pop-up "add" window would be very nice. Unless it confuses someone unused to it.

I don't know if this is Dave's reason not to do it, but I found that IF I REMEMBER to open the "add" window by using "CTRL-CLICK", the "add" window opens as a SECOND window.

Then the main list window stays open, at the spot where I am working on it.

But I keep forgetting and having to scroll endlessly, like you.

>> And or being able to check it off and make it available before closing?

Making "the green checkmark" available right when we add it to our swap list? I would love that.

Rick I never use the CTRL-CLICK option...always forget.

"Making "the green checkmark" available right when we add it to our swap list?"
Yes exactly

I started training myself, but now when I want to "just CLICK", my fingers freeze up ask "Don't you want CTRL, too?"

Okay I just did that and opened it in a new window...I still have to go back, scroll and check. Doesn't seem to save me any steps

Hmmm!

In my browser (an old copy of Firefox), CTRL-CLICK leaves the first window exactly as it was, while opening a new window.

Sorry!

Maybe there is a way to make a window "sticky" WRT where you were in a scrolling list. When you re-open it, it would remember "where you were last". But that might be a total impracticality.

I wonder about asking for this next feature. I would be desirable in some ways, but it might tend to turn some people off or seem like circumventing the "early dib gets the seed" principle.

Often we post wish lists before a swap so that A might notice that B really wants a specific seed variety X.

Then A decides to dig deep, find and give away a packet A was originally planning to hold on to.

Maybe A really wants to treat B for some reason.

However, A knows that if she just posts that seed variety in the general tradelist, someone else is more likely to get it than B.

For me, I might well want to give away my last packet of X to B, but I would not just throw it into the free-for-all.

The feature I'm dubious about requesting is a way to "pre-dedicate" a certain packet to a certain person. Maybe they would still have to spend a ticket on it, but that doesn't matter. I was hoping for a way to be sure that B will get X, if I go dig deep for X and put my last packet of it into the swap.

The upside is that it would motivate more people to donate seeds they might otherwise have held on to. It would let the donor feel that they had specifically given the seeds to the person they wanted to.

The downside that I'm aware of is that there may be people focused on "fairness", thought of as "everyone in the swap has an equal chance at getting any given thing". And it might create a feeling of "insider trading that I was excluded from".

Right now, I think that when A wants to give X to B, A just slips that packet of X into her "TO B" baggie without ever mentioning it in the swap list. In effect, just saving on postage.

I don't know if anyone objects to that kind of "just slip it in" process.

But if someone does object, now or in the future, especially the host of a swap, I'd like there to be some way to take advantage of the great "postage-efficiency" of a group seed swap plus the value of specific up-to-date wish lists, plus individuals' willingness to give some treasured seed to another person one-on-one, plus the fact that everyone has friends they would go an extra mile for.

Another downside I could imagine by stretching would be someone sending SO MANY one-on-one seeds that they started forcing the host to use bigger mailers on the return leg. Then again, the flat rate envelopes can hold a huge amount.

So maybe the existing practice is best, of slipping a "dedicated" seed packet into someone's baggie without ever putting it into the swaplist.