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For the person running the courier, what would be nice is that for a Courier contract with a status of "InProgress", the collateral amount would be added to the "Escrow" total (as seen in summaries like Tracker, Isk, Overview, etc.) for the character in the "Acceptor" field from the Contracts tool. If a character has accepted a courier contract, the collateral value has been removed from their wallet balance but there's every expectation that it will be returned (assuming successful contract completion). However right now that ISK just disappears for a while, leading to many dips and gaps in the totals shown on the summaries.

On the flip side for the person setting up the courier, what I'd hoped was that for Courier contracts with a status of "Outstanding" or "InProgress", the items inside would remain in the Assets of the Issuer (or IssuerCorp), since again the expectation is that the items still belong to them and will be back in a hangar upon successful completion. However since that is not possible with the existing API, the next best thing may be to include the Collateral amount in the "Sell Orders" total for the Issuer/IssuerCorp. As it is now the assets just disappear for a while, again leading to many dips and gaps in the totals shown on the summaries.

Escrow/Sell Orders makes the most sense to me as "holding places" for the collateral ISK/asset value since, on the Acceptor side, you have effectively agreed to a buy order at the collateral price for the contract items if the contract fails, and on the Issuer side you have effectively agreed to a sell order of those items at the collateral price if the contract fails.

Any Courier status other than "Outstanding" or "InProgress" can be totally ignored since completed, failed, or deleted contracts have already returned the collateral ISK and contract items to the correct wallets/hangars, so no additional tracking is required at that point.

Oh, and somewhat related... any chance of having the contract status added to the "Contracts" tool? I notice it shows up in the API but it doesn't show up as a column I can filter on in jEVEAssets.

@Annette Nolen
Thank you very much for your feedback and suggestions.
I never run courier contracts, tbh I never play the game.
So, it's really great when someone who use it all time, explain what could be done better and why...

I have added the issues to the issue tracker:
Isk/Values/Tracker: Contracts Collateral
Status Column

I never tested this myself and to save time, I'll just ask:
Are items inside plastic wrap, really added to you assets, when you accept a courier contract?

@Prof Hubert
It's new in 2.7.1, to take care of the new EVE API HTTP errors:
Accounts get marked as invalid when the API returns HTTP response 403 AKA invalid account.
Each time you update anything from the EVE API it will try the accounts again, to check if they are still invalid.

I will need to log files, to debug it:
See: https://code.google.com/p/jeveassets/wiki/ReadMe#Bugs
I will look into as soon as I have the log files.

Thank you for your bug report! :)

Sent :)

I've been using jEVEAssets for a while now and today I noticed that some things are off in the asset list. For example I searched for Small Core Defense Field Extender I and it found:

13 in System A in Contract > Included, Added 02-08-2013
50 in System B in Contract > Included, Added 02-08-2013
50 in System B in Contract > Included, Added 02-08-2013
37 in System B in Contract > Included, Added 02-08-2013
13 in System A in Contract > Included, Added 02-08-2013
50 in System B in Contract > Included, Added 02-08-2013
13 in System B in Contract > Included, Added 02-08-2013
13 in System A in Contract > Included, Added 02-08-2013
30 in System C in Hangar, Added 13-11-2013 <-- this is correct
1 BPC in System A in Contract > Included, Added 02-08-2013
1 BPO in System C in Hangar, Added 27-11-2013 <-- this is correct

All the ones in contracts cannot be currently true. I have at most one stack of these in 1 outstanding courier from System B to System C. Is this a bug? Or why do these things in old (completed) contracts show in contracts in their source system?

Also, is there a way to sync up and eliminate everything that presently does not exist?

@Praal
If it show stuff you do not have access to, it's a bug.

I will look into ASAP.

Thank you for your bug report! :)

EDIT:
A quick look at the code, does indeed show that it adds all contracts no matter if they are completed or not.
I will fix this and release a bug fix version ASAP.

It really helps jEveAssets when people take the time to report bugs they find.
So, again: Thank you very much for reporting it! :)

No problem, thank you for the awesome app!

The dev build seems to have fixed the issue. I now see only 1 stack of rigs and 1 BPO (which seems about right) and no more PLEXs. However my total ISK worth has not gone down any. Were the PLEXs/etc not being computed in my net worth before?

Interesting to know. This explains some of the dips I ocassionally see in my total. I import goods to nullsec, so ocasionally large amounts of assets are mid-contract.

To keep the data points I updated on the dev version when I switch back to the release one, I should copy the profile folder to the one in C:\Users\...... ?

jEveAssets 2.7.2 (Rubicon 1.0.0) released

New Features:
-New Contract Column: Status

Bug Fixes:
-Assets included completed contracts
-Empty accounts was hidden in account manager

Notes:
Thanks to Annette Nolen, Praal, and Prof Hubert for reporting bugs and suggesting new features.

@Migal J
Thank you for your feature suggestion and kind words. :)

I like the idea, however:
1) It's already possible to group stockpiles with filters:
Ex.:
[Or] [Stockpile Name] [Equals] "Name of stockpile 1"
[Or] [Stockpile Name] [Equals] "Name of stockpile 2"

2) I'm not sure how to implement it in practice. If you could give me some use cases, I might get a better idea...