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My iOS code for managing my stamp collection.
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Entry of Maximum Cards is clumsy #2

Open mmehr2 opened 7 months ago

mmehr2 commented 7 months ago

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The Max Cards are always issued in sets of 3. The album always fits two to a page. Therefore, I'm always creating partial sets (#1/3 etc). It would make sense if code could create these Inventory Items in groups of 3 with the description automatically added in the desc field. If possible, it would be nice just to know when adding MaxCards to do this (InventoryBuilder?). Otherwise, we could add a menu item that gets disabled/hidden if not in MaxCards category. It's still two-step entry, but the Add step will create three items instead of one.

Positioning on the pages might be a problem, since one or two of them belong on the next page from where you add it. One way to deal with it would be to tell if there is an active partial under creation and position it on the next page that fits. Or something like that.

mmehr2 commented 6 months ago

This happens at worst once a year or less. I will directly edit the inventory data for this by hand. Shouldn't take more than a half hour.

mmehr2 commented 6 months ago

Turned out that my simple model of the data (3x for each set) was wrong, but close. It took a few hours to correct the counts and set things up, adding the exhibition card pair as a variety, and skipping the manual page gap. But I shouldn't have to deal with those situations again, so the software remains capable.

One issue remains: when adding a partial set for the Max Card category using the Swift app, we should verify that the "Pl.No." is not inserted as it is for sets of sheets, if indeed it is.