It occurred to me it would be cool to have a YouTube video showing a simple version, and then a detailed version, of how to add things to "Your Plant List", then add them to "Your Swap List", then add them to a swap.
A series of screenshots would be almost as good, and I started doing that once or twice, but I seem to have lost any links to such posts.
But there are two basic paths: one is to just type names into your swap list and wind up with just common names. I think that's the easiest path.
The other path drags along all the info in our database including photos, and it assures that your items will be listed as near-to-alphabetical as any list of plants' common names can be.
The other path is:
1. find your plant in THE plant database.
2. From the plant database entry, "ADD TO YOUR PLANT LIST"
(Probably do this for all the seeds you want to trade.)
3. Now, from Your Plant List, hit the three-corned "recycle" symbol to add it to YOUR Swap List.
4. I think now you can edit the quantity, number of packets, and comments like color, year harvested, or vendor and year-packed-for. And the crucial "Ready to Trade" pull-down.
The "Quantity" field is not how many trade packets you HAVE, it means how many trade packets you are OFFERING in THIS particular swap. Let's say you enter the quantity "3".
5. The final step is easily missed. From SOME screen (? Manage Your Swap List?) , you have to scroll through "YOUR Swap List" and check the green check marks that DND spoke of. Once you check the green checkmark, "3" packets of that variety will become visible to other members of the swap, and they can start putting stars on it.
If you are in two swaps, you will have two columns of check marks. If you check both, then members of EACH swap will see that they have been offered "3" packets. If the variety is popular, you need to have SIX packets available, 3 for each swap you "checked".
BTW, when you offer more packets of a variety than are taken, you keep the extras.
