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Jan 8, 2016 11:02 AM CST
Name: Morgan
IL (Zone 5b)
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The wildflowers swap is going great! I had a couple more thoughts today. I think it would be helpful to have the option to be able to view our "sold" list grouped (and totaled if possible) by seed instead of recipient. So for instance... I could quickly see that I need to have 5 of the columbine, 3 of the daylily, and 6 of the tomato packed up and ready to go. I know people can "un-dib" items, but it might be helpful to keep up with incoming sold quantities during the swap portion and make sure we are ready to get our packages mailed out ASAP.

I realize many people are only listing smaller quantities of things that they already have packed up, but when you have a large variety of things to offer it is hard to predict how much of each item other people will want and pre-make the packets. Another factor is when you are adding items and setting quantities to the swap early on, but have no idea how many people are going to join until swapping starts.

I currently have 96 sold items and the swapping portion isn't even done yet. I decided to increase my "items per page" in my site settings to 100. Then I copied and pasted my sold list into a spreadsheet (as html). Then I was able to re-sort the list by seed name instead of participant. It works pretty well and I thought it might be helpful to others to have that sort of viewing option built in to the webpage.

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