Awesomely, fantastically, unprecedented-ly easy to use! And no visible code defects! A+++ to Dave for this feature!
And many thanks!
Being able to set up our "wish" priorities ahead of time, then dibs them by just running down a list is REALLY appreciated.
(That made me think of a "sudden death" swap, where there would be plenty of time to scan lists and prioritize before the Start Time, but then tickets would be refreshed every 30 minutes instead of every 24 hours. The whole swap might be over in 1-2 days!)
Being able to re-use our main "inventory" lists is a huge advantage for the next swap, and inclines me to trade seeds here at ATP only. Just creating a Have list for some swap on another website now seems like a huge effort.
The search feature in the "view combined trade lists" is key to usability.
Search-by-User is really nice to have.
I love having the "Bought" and "sold" lists visible. Wish I could sort my "Sold" list by plant variety, so I could print a "pick list". Then I wish I could sort it by recipient so I could print out legible Pack lists.
I found the common-name-alphabetization almost unusable, even just within my own Have list or Offer list. Common names are simply too varied and all-over-the-map to be usable when searching a long list. When an item might alphabetize under 2-3 things I can think, of plus 2-3 more I can't easily think of, trying to find something in a long "common-name-alphabetical" list is impractical.
I search or filter instead, by going to the combined lists, viewing only my own list, then using the search/filter feature.
A possible minor frill for future embelishment might be an ability to add tags to each "Offer" list row, so that people could filter on the tag. Like "vegetable", "annual flower" , "perennial flower" , "native to X" , "xeric", "cold-hardy", "F1", "OP-variety", etc.
Or possibly add tags to entries in the plant database, and make those searchable from within trade lists.
Or enable searching trade lists by Plant Database fields like "Uses =" Vegetable OR Salad greens OR Cooked greens.
