Viewing post #1026893 by DogsNDaylilies

RickCorey said:I guess the number remaining really is the number you started with, minus the number requested and sent out.

But I didn't want to offer EVERY packet I own of a variety into every swap. I might have 20 of something, and want to put 5 pkts into each swap I join. So the number remaining after each swap is not the same as what I have left "in stock".

I may be using "My Swap List" differently from how Dave intended. But I wish there was one column for "My Total # of packets". Then putting "N" into a swap would subtract "N" from My Total, and when the swap was over, the number remaining would be added back to "My Total".

I should start doing that offline so I don't have to re-count for each swap! But at least re-counting assures me I haven't lost that whole tub in the meanwhile!

What I did was I created two entries, one for the current swap at the time, and one for the future. You can use this a couple of different ways, but what I used both of my listings for swaps, one was the beta and the other was for the the 'January swap', which was this swap. I did this as a reminder to myself of what I want to make sure I list as well as a count or reminder of how many packets of that I had left so I didn't really have to recount at the beginning of this swap.

Instead of having different listings be for different swaps, you could also have one listing always be a general swap listing and the other act as your personal inventory count, if you wanted.

I do wish there was the ability to 'duplicate record', but ! Without looking at it, I don't think there currently is. Maybe that's something you could suggest to Dave for the future.