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Suggestion: Edit and cancel multiple market orders at once
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Rhyarkh
Slow Match
#1 - 2017-04-12 13:35:39 UTC
Hello,

compared to the past, we've got now multi-buy and a multi-sell feature, but as far as I know, no multi-edit and no multi-cancel feature for market orders.

So, why not adding multi-edit and multi-cancel features :)?


Regards

Rhyarkh
Cade Windstalker
#2 - 2017-04-12 14:15:59 UTC
How, exactly, would editing multiple market orders work or be helpful? You need to individually check the prices for your orders anyways, and you'd need to spend a good chunk of time dragging orders into the window or something anyways.

Same sort of deal for canceling orders, seems like that would just be a recipe for a mess and a lot of accidentally canceled orders.
Rhyarkh
Slow Match
#3 - 2017-04-12 14:37:12 UTC
Well, I am thinking of selecting multiple orders by clicking CTRL or SHIFT + left mouse button and then right click => cancel or edit.

When editing:

The same window opens like when you edit or multi-sell items. Of course, you have to click on every item to check the price, but you can do this on the symbol on the right side which is either a green or red arrow up or down or an equal sign. That way I only have to click on that symbol to open the corresponding market window.

If I edit market orders one by one, I have to right click on every order and left click on "edit". Then I have to click on the symbol to open/get the current orders to check prices. So that way you have to click 2 times more often as with a multi-edit feature. Making it 1 click vs. 3 clicks.

That window would also have that little "x" in case you accidentally selected an order. Just like when you multi-sell items.


When canceling:

Well, it certainly needs a window saying what orders are going to be canceled. Being able to click on such an "x" to remove an accidentally selected order would be a good extra here, too.



If you have to edit or cancel only 3 orders, you may not mind doing it one by one. But if you have to go through a lot of orders like 50 or even more, it's a pain in the ... :)
Cade Windstalker
#4 - 2017-04-12 19:18:55 UTC
Okay, yeah, I can see shift-clicking out of your Orders window working as a UI option, that's not a bad idea then.
Rhyarkh
Slow Match
#5 - 2017-04-13 13:02:15 UTC
Yup! Usually, I edit all my outstanding market sell orders in one go. Here it would be really useful :).

And about the canceling: I am also selling at citadels which have the side effect of being shot into reinforcement from time to time. Then I have to cancel all my orders and ship them to another citadel or station. Canceling 50 orders one by one is really annoying, to be honest.