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So I took it upon myself to update my corp's fittings because it had old fits from a past alliance which is now dead. I wanted to also add in new fits from new alliance doctrines, implement a standardized naming convention for the fits, and also input fits from plain text online. To do this, one would assume that it'd be easiest to export fits, edit the XML, then re-import them. However, this took me over two hours to do. The XML editing was just fine, but importing was a huge pain...

First, one cannot import a fitting XML sheet to their corporation list (even with proper roles.) Instead, they import to your personal fits (of which we only have 100.) Then, when importing, if there are errors in the module names it'll still import other ships instead of making you fix everything first. This resulted in a ton of duplicates which needed removing to make space for fixed fits. After that, I found out that the bloody import mechanism didn't even import every ship every time. It imported about 60-70% the first time, and then I had to delete those fits from the XML sheet and reimport, bringing in anywhere from 20-50% of the remaining ships. I think after about 10-15 different imports I finally imported all of the corp fits, and I lost most of my own personal fits because I couldn't think of a good way to keep corp and personal fits separate during the import. This is just pathetic.

So, to put it plainly, these are things that need/should to be fixed in the Corporation Fitting management interface:

• Import to corporation fittings
• Don't import if errors
• Don't import duplicates
• Import every fit in a document in one shot
• Remove fits from personal list when setting as Corporation Fit (but not the other way around)

Before anyone asks, this is an alt, and any grammar/typographical/other errors are due to habits, it being almost 5am and me being sick.

I think he may be speaking in terms of en-masse importation and not so much a fit per fit basis.

But an improvement would be appreicated to make it easier...its never really worked all that well for me.

Could be more due to the various apps and not so much eve itself..or a failure to manitain a certain standard.

OP - Not bad for a 5am post.