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Bookmarking Contract Search Criteria and Alerts
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Deckel
Island Paradise
#1 - 2016-07-12 23:33:55 UTC
Once someone gets used to using contracts they will often search for particular items or delivery routes however currently you must manually enter the search criteria each time and the system only saves your last search attempt. This is a difficult to use utility, and requires you to remember how you were previously using it.

By being able to save a variety of different search criteria it allows a person on periodically flick through them to find new work and opportunities.

Also if you can set up alerts regarding new opportunities appearing for these criteria then the contract system can start to become truly usable. These alerts and bookmarks could even have associated trainable skill associated to them.

(some sort of contract statistics also couldn't hurt)
Iain Cariaba
#2 - 2016-07-13 05:21:43 UTC
My client stores my searches. Type the first couple characters and it gives me a drop down list of matches.

Also, there's this wonderful tool already a part of the game known as the "notepad" You can make all the lists you want, organize them, even make links for items that you can right click and "Find in contracts."

The tools you want already exist.
Deckel
Island Paradise
#3 - 2016-07-13 17:38:03 UTC
Iain Cariaba wrote:
My client stores my searches. Type the first couple characters and it gives me a drop down list of matches.

Also, there's this wonderful tool already a part of the game known as the "notepad" You can make all the lists you want, organize them, even make links for items that you can right click and "Find in contracts."

The tools you want already exist.



That is hardly the same thing. it doesn't take into account location, contract type, quantity, price etc and it does nothing to automatically alert you when new posted contracts that meet your criteria become available.

Contract search is a very clumsy tool, you either need to live in it or you barely touch it. I just think that if some functions can be streamlined then most people could get a little more use out of using the public contract network.