Help: Trade - General Options
Options for the Sales screen are further down (and the "Misc" tab has its own help text).
Customers tab: The two lists of customers are formatted in a way they can be copied and pasted directly into the TO: field at new in-game mails. You may want to split too lengthy lists into smaller batches not to choke the in-game mail system.
- File: Save As... makes it possible to save the file in the common CSV format, known by most spread sheet applications.
- Edit: Archive will archive all auction mails for the currently viewed character to sub-folders within the character's mail folder. These mails are removed from all lists in SWGAide, but can later be restored.
- Edit: Restore Archive will restore all auction mails for the currently viewed character from the selected archive.
- Edit: View Archive presents all auction mails for the selected archive but do not restore these into SWGAide lists.
- Edit: Reload all auction mails for the current character after viewing an archive.
- Edit: Import retrieves all auction mails from the selected folder to the current character's list of auction mails, even mails that were once sent to another character. As of version 0.5.17 only auction mails addressed from the currently selected character's galaxy is imported. See a note in the file SWGAide-history.TXT.
Remember that SWG mails have no "TO: " information, only "FROM: " and if you have used for example Merchant's Friend to archive auction mails for several characters they are probably blended in one folder.
- Min visits sets the minimum number of visits a customer should have paid any of your vendors.
- Min credits sets the minimum amount of credits a customer should have spent at all of your vendors.
- Recent days sets how many days back in time you want to include in the filtered output.
- Only new filters for customers that have never visited your vendors, archived mails not accounted for. You must previously have Saved a list of customers for this filter to work.
- Since ... filters for all customers that have visited your vendors since the last time you did a Save.
- Save saves the list of customers in the upper text field and the current time. This must be for the two check boxes to work.
Help: Trade - Sales screen
Filters: The bottom four text fields may be used to filter for text in the corresponding columns. It is possible to filter in more than one column at a time, then all text must match the input. Click the Filter button to perform the filtering, Clear will reset the table.
Any plain string will work as filter, which will work for most users. The filter is case sensitive. However, for hard-core users common regular expressions are supported. Be careful though, ill written expressions will block the expected entries from the list. Knowledge of regular expressions is not essential as plain text will do just fine. Only the text fields are filtered this way.
Prices are filtered differently and can be filtered on exact price, between, less than, and greater than. For the latter options, use the < (less than) or the > (greater than) signs.
< 1234 Any price less than and equal to 1234 > 5678 Any price equal to and greater than 5678 1234 − 5678 Any price between 1234 and 5678, including the limit values Clicking a cell in the table will filter on the selected value. For example clicking on on a cell in the price column that shows 5000 credits will filter the entire table on that value, while clicking on a name will filter on that name.
Credits: Many features at the Trade tab are inspired by Merchant's Friend, thence: "With courtesy to Illiya Darklight of Valcyn, the creator of Merchant's Friend".