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Nov 7, 2015 8:13 AM CST
Name: Sandy B.
Ford River Twp, Michigan UP (Zone 4b)
(Zone 4b-maybe 5a)
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Rick, Dave fixed that "clickablity" thing where I was having trouble with the morning glory 'split second.'

The "add to swap list" button is just in your plant list, not in the database, although I think it could be handy to have in the DB, too.

I have to admit that I'm starting to feel like it's a little redundant to be making the extra list for the swaps, when our plant lists already have the capability of indicating "available for trade." It might be a lot easier to just utilize that feature and develop a list of swap participants that shows a link to their "available" seeds:

for instance:

List of participants:
1. Weedwhacker http://garden.org/lists/view/W...

NOTE: when I did this example I discovered that we can't "show only" the items available for trade at this point, so that link shows all my "haves" -- but I have to think it would be a lot easier to make that change to the plant list functions than to write a whole new thing for the swap lists. And we could also link to our "wants" from the plant list that way, too. This would not only remove the additional work of maintaining an entirely separate list for swaps, but it would be a way to control the lists for the participants to view in any given swap - not that it wouldn't be possible to go look at someone's list that isn't in the swap, but there wouldn't be a direct link to it from the swap thread.

I haven't had enough caffeine yet, so I hope that makes some kind of sense. Any thoughts about this, @Dave ?
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