New Auction software - Please post comments / questions / problems here

[Dawn F]

Ability to mark item as received even if the sender hasn't marked as sent,

yes that would be good

[Tiggy's Mum]

Some ideas for next year...

Could the corporate sponsors send the items direct to save on postage costs and also time, it must have cost an absolute fortune to send the items - let alone the time involved in packing etc Obviously there is the risk that the sponsor doesn't send the item but this is the same risk as regular members putting items up for auction ie there's no guarantee they will send the item and in both cases the buyer can be refunded if nothing is sent. I know some corporate sponsors sent direct (one of my items came direct) but think the majority were sent to Tan first?

Ability to mark item as received even if the sender hasn't marked as sent, I received an item just a day or so after the auction ended but as it hadn't been marked as sent I couldn't close it off by marking as received.

[CarolM (Wendolene)]

Maybe for next year there can be a button to press that lets you mark all your items sent in one go rather than having to go in to each one individually.  I only had 3 but what about you Tan, when you mark all yours as sent having to do them one by one?

Mary

That is one excellent idea hun 

Could it be as well as rather than instead of the current system.  I know I posted mine in two tranches, those who paid  and gave me their addresses early and those who were a bit later.  In fact I still have one who hasn't paid. 

[Tan]

Maybe for next year there can be a button to press that lets you mark all your items sent in one go rather than having to go in to each one individually.  I only had 3 but what about you Tan, when you mark all yours as sent having to do them one by one?

Mary

That is one excellent idea hun 

[maryas]

Maybe for next year there can be a button to press that lets you mark all your items sent in one go rather than having to go in to each one individually.  I only had 3 but what about you Tan, when you mark all yours as sent having to do them one by one?

Mary

[Gill (sneakiefeline)]

There is something at sorting pffice so maybe that but cant get there till next week.

[Frances]

Thassokay Gill - just PM me when it arrives

[Gill (sneakiefeline)]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh done it!

BUT I marked the wrong iten received so Frances dont have the dish yet........................stoopid me!

Thanks Carol 

[Gill (sneakiefeline)]

Hmm never seen the update status.................off to have another look

[CarolM (Wendolene)]

You update to received first then press the update status button.  It that what  you've been doing gill.  I forgot the update status first time and it didn't hold.

[Gill (sneakiefeline)]

Cant mark item received, it wont hold

[Tan]

which one is it hun?

[jezebel]

I've just added an item but I can't see the description - only the title and photos. What am I doing wrong?

[maddercow]

Thank you! Xxx

[Marl]

  no worries sorted in a sec 

lol that was me posting up there (Tan)

just having a look how other members see the Auction pages as Marl

[maddercow]

Ooops, done it again Tan..sorry. I uploaded the wrong pic, was too big & when I went to change it it produced a duplicate 

[maryas]

No probs chuck. There's a lot to read so it's much easier to ask and get a reply from one of us that know straight away.

Mary

[bickhamwitch]

Oh thanks Mary. That's cleared that up for me.
Julie.

[maryas]

Julie, once the money has been received (cheques not bounced) you will receive a message saying you can send the item to the winner.

Once the person has won an item they send you a PM with their address.

Mary

[bickhamwitch]

When someone buys an item you have placed in the auction, is their address sent to you so you can send it to them.
Julie.

[Tan]

Oh goody it has gone. And the butterfly bowl is back, very pretty..thank you Tan or whever fixed it. Xxx

No worries hun

ys did the right thing by marking it as please ignore as all i need to do is delete it

I will be home for the two weeks the auction is on so pm for anything like that and I will adjust
 

[Tan]

Lol looks like we had the default pic as the bangle (ie when no picture is added on a new item it brings in a default pic)  Changed now to the Purrs logo pic. So If you don't upload a pic at the same time you add an item, the purrs pic will be put in.  You can edit the pictures at any time by going into edit pictures at the bottom of the your listing.

Simply upload the new pic, (make sure its under 350kb in size) and click add image. Then once it is added mark that pic as the primary image and delete the purrs logo one.

Of course it is easier if you have the pic all ready when you add the listing so you just need to upload it

 

If anyone has any probs resizing pictures for the Auction or (as it's the same for the whole forum) the forum, contact any staff who will elp
xx

[maddercow]

Oh goody it has gone. And the butterfly bowl is back, very pretty..thank you Tan or whever fixed it. Xxx

[maddercow]

It is a lovely bracelet but it is certainly not a fridge magnet! Hopefully Tan will just delete the weird post. Was quite creepy really. In general I like the new system, just a few little gremlins.

Glad it happened to somebody else and not just me 

[maryas]

Jo, I reported similar thing early hours of this morning.  It said butterfly something or other and the pic was that darn bracelet

I noticed this morning Tan had replaced the pic with a Purrs Cat Sign.

Mary

[maddercow]

Eeeek Tan, something has gone wrong, there is a listing of mine for a fridge magnet, one is fine but another has popped up with a picture of a brass bangle...can that one be removed? I have edited it so people know it is incorrect..how did that happen though, is somebody else's photo!

Jo

[Tan]

We should be finished with the close of the auction work on Tuesday eve so will reset  the auction clock iand we can have a go at the close  xx

Xx

[Tan]

OK confusion strikes again!!!!!!!!!!!!

The items in read only, what are they? I expected not to be able to bid but could, should I have been able too? Is it cos I a mod maybe?

They dont appear on the main auction listing, is that right?

The child board under the auction board in the forum called ' New items read only" is a read only list of new items when they get added in the main auction section under the auction button. Each item added to the auction will have a post under the read only thread and all that board is locked so there is no bidding /posts in there. (Yes only staff can go in and post as on any locked thread)

The read only list is purely as an advertising post of new items as they are added so for instance each new item will be posted once on the forum showing the new item added. This will also appear in your unread post link.

If you go into this new items read only you will see a separate topic for each item and in them the item name , some details and a blue "more info" which you can click to go straight to that item page in the auction main page.

[Tan]

Why is the auction countdown clock wrong?

Forgot to say love the red 

Cause it was set to close before our clocks changed but it will fine for the real run

[Gill (sneakiefeline)]

OK confusion strikes again!!!!!!!!!!!!

The items in read only, what are they? I expected not to be able to bid but could, should I have been able too? Is it cos I a mod maybe?

They dont appear on the main auction listing, is that right?

[Gill (sneakiefeline)]

Why is the auction countdown clock wrong?

Forgot to say love the red 

[Tan]

Hi hun this is showing for me as well. It something to do with the language file UTF fing. ...........

Ah right says I, nodding wisely and not having a clue what you're talking about.    Anyway, I'm glad it's not just me and I must remember to apologise to Bunty because she was helping me type when it first happened and I'm afraid I blamed her. 

Fixed now 

You may need to modify ya £ signs in posted posts but it should be ok for new ones

[Tan]

Hi hun this is showing for me as well. It something to do with the language file UTF fing. ...........

Ah right says I, nodding wisely and not having a clue what you're talking about.    Anyway, I'm glad it's not just me and I must remember to apologise to Bunty because she was helping me type when it first happened and I'm afraid I blamed her. 

  lol nope def not darlin Bunty's fault lol   Poor babe  getting the blame for Mr Tan & Mrs Tan doin it 
Please dish out  loads of lovely prawns and tons and tons of cuddles from us    (will reimburse for prawn cost) 

[Tan]

OMG I am too old for this LOL

I think if possible you need to have the actual name of item showing cos I think I would just delete all threads just saying new auction items.

I know nothing about how all the coding and stuff works behind scenes but wonder if this can be done when a new item is actually added?

ie some one adds new item and it automaticalor ly generates a a post for our unread list??

One other thing how and where do I post the thread for selling pics of my cats. and feed a cat/chrissy dinner needs someone to cordinate with sunny Harbour, name a cat also needs to go some where with the selling pics.

Not very with it cos on top of all boiler hassle and big service to car last week its just failed MOT 

Yes ok that's what I fawt too ie to have the actual item title in the unread post link  and not just the thread same title.  Ok we will try and do this tomorrow If we do this it will automatically post the new item every time someone adds a new auction item in the auction software.

We can have all the Gilly pics of her wonderful gang, and Feed a cat etc in the thread under this board section as each a separate thread so as we used to do it So we just need to open a new thread under this board for each   And as these go on after the auction we can leave them open longer as we did last year for any more donations if wanted

  so sorry to hear ya Red Current failed   Last fing ya need    I hope it's not too much to get her back on the road. 

[CarolM (Wendolene)]

Hi hun this is showing for me as well. It something to do with the language file UTF fing. ...........

Ah right says I, nodding wisely and not having a clue what you're talking about.    Anyway, I'm glad it's not just me and I must remember to apologise to Bunty because she was helping me type when it first happened and I'm afraid I blamed her. 

[Tan]

I tried to do a search with a 3 letter word and it is still telling me that it is insufficient characters.

Hmm now he indoors said he fixed dis and i took his word for it so thanks hun 

[Tan]

You should see the ?220 worth item we have from the wonderful  Katkabin peeps

Tan this is nothing really to do with the auction but on my screen that appears as ?220 .  Should it by any chance say 220 pounds and if so, did you type it in correctly using the pound sign?  I ask because of late my posts are appearing with a question mark in place of the pound sign and also in place of the apostrophe even though I did not hit the question mark keyat any time  (honest  ).  In addition when I looked back on one of my Paws Inn posts today to check on something I found even weirder symbols in place of the apostrophe and they were fine at the time of original posting. 

Hi hun this is showing for me as well. It something to do with the language file UTF fing. I will ask Steve why it's changed (very annoying!  )

[Lyn (Slugsta)]

I tried to do a search with a 3 letter word and it is still telling me that it is insufficient characters.

[Gill (sneakiefeline)]

Gilly is the way it's brought into the forum ok do you fink?

At the mo it adds a post into the thread "new Auction Items (read only) topic for every new item added.
Each post under this will show the new item and a picture of it with a link to go to that item.

In your unread posts link - it will show the topic title ie "New Auction item (read only)" when a new item has been added so like the other threads you would need to click the link to see the new items listed in the posts under that thread.

What we are trying to do and it's not easy but will try is to have the name of the new item in the unread post link  so people can see what new items are put up without having to go into the thread to view the posts.
But as ya know to change a thread title you need to change the last post title and then the 1st post title to save the new title. we can do the last post one but looking into also then how to automatically changer the 1st one.

question is do you fink that having a thread with with same title with all the new auctions items in each post under that thread is good enough

or we need to get the thread changed with the auction item title in it.

ie
previous years we have each auction item in it's own thread  so when you looked in unread items the thread title would be there so you could see the name of the item in your unread link. This i fink gave a bit of advertising on the forum say if a catflap was listed then someone who maybe didn't go into the auction would see their unread link the actual name of the catflap!

OMG I am too old for this LOL

I think if possible you need to have the actual name of item showing cos I think I would just delete all threads just saying new auction items.

I know nothing about how all the coding and stuff works behind scenes but wonder if this can be done when a new item is actually added?

ie some one adds new item and it automaticalor ly generates a a post for our unread list??

One other thing how and where do I post the thread for selling pics of my cats. and feed a cat/chrissy dinner needs someone to cordinate with sunny Harbour, name a cat also needs to go some where with the selling pics.

Not very with it cos on top of all boiler hassle and big service to car last week its just failed MOT 

[CarolM (Wendolene)]

You should see the ?220 worth item we have from the wonderful  Katkabin peeps

Tan this is nothing really to do with the auction but on my screen that appears as ?220 .  Should it by any chance say 220 pounds and if so, did you type it in correctly using the pound sign?  I ask because of late my posts are appearing with a question mark in place of the pound sign and also in place of the apostrophe even though I did not hit the question mark keyat any time  (honest  ).  In addition when I looked back on one of my Paws Inn posts today to check on something I found even weirder symbols in place of the apostrophe and they were fine at the time of original posting.