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| | | Author: | Admin_Russell  | | Posted: | Dec 11, 2021 22:56 | | Subject: | A task for someone who is able | | Viewed: | 343 times | | Topic: | Catalog | | Status: | Open | |
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ID CardAdmin_Russell
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Location:  USA, California |
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| We recently deployed an adjustment to our catalog admin tools that allows us
to move Gear items to the Sets Item Type. One of the reasons we wanted to move
these Gear items is that they would be more searchable and help with connections
to other sites. As a result, many of the item numbers had the letter "G" removed.
This "G" (or "g") had originally been added, both as a prefix and a suffix, to
distinguish between certain parts and Gear items which shared a "given" ID; that
is, an ID that has been "given" by the LEGO Group and is clearly enough exposed
that BrickLink catalog users could use it to help identify an item.
In particular, the G was necessary for the rare occasion that either the part
or Gear item needed to be added to an inventory via one of our manual inventory
upload forms. In these cases, the forms would only allow one of the two options,
and if the user needed the other option, a catalog item number change was necessary
before uploading the request.
This problem stemmed from an effort a few years ago to simplify inventory upload
forms (they were notoriously difficult for many users to understand). At the
time we removed the input column for Item Type, since 99.9% of the time it was
unnecessary.
However, we have determined to restore the Gear item numbers affected by this
and plan to deploy, on Monday, a dropdown menu for these cases, where users can
choose between duplicate IDs. This is already a feature of our autopopulated
inventory add form, where duplicate PCCs will trigger a similar dropdown.
So starting immediately, we will approve changes for Gear Item Numbers from Gxxxxx
and xxxxxG to xxxxx. There are several hundred of these in our system, and they
can be discovered quite easily by downloading via Tab_Delimited File all Gear
item types:
https://www.bricklink.com/catalogDownload.asp?utm_content=subnav
...opening the file in Excel, and then searching the Item Number column for the
letter G.
If someone, or a group of people, would like to take on this project, it would
be greatly appreciated. Our catalog admin team is approaching the absolute busiest
time of the year and probably won't have time for this until mid February
otherwise.
Thanks!
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| | | | | Author: | axaday | | Posted: | Dec 11, 2021 23:19 | | Subject: | Re: A task for someone who is able | | Viewed: | 82 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, Admin_Russell writes:
| | We recently deployed an adjustment to our catalog admin tools that allows us
to move Gear items to the Sets Item Type. One of the reasons we wanted to move
these Gear items is that they would be more searchable and help with connections
to other sites. As a result, many of the item numbers had the letter "G" removed.
This "G" (or "g") had originally been added, both as a prefix and a suffix, to
distinguish between certain parts and Gear items which shared a "given" ID; that
is, an ID that has been "given" by the LEGO Group and is clearly enough exposed
that BrickLink catalog users could use it to help identify an item.
In particular, the G was necessary for the rare occasion that either the part
or Gear item needed to be added to an inventory via one of our manual inventory
upload forms. In these cases, the forms would only allow one of the two options,
and if the user needed the other option, a catalog item number change was necessary
before uploading the request.
This problem stemmed from an effort a few years ago to simplify inventory upload
forms (they were notoriously difficult for many users to understand). At the
time we removed the input column for Item Type, since 99.9% of the time it was
unnecessary.
However, we have determined to restore the Gear item numbers affected by this
and plan to deploy, on Monday, a dropdown menu for these cases, where users can
choose between duplicate IDs. This is already a feature of our autopopulated
inventory add form, where duplicate PCCs will trigger a similar dropdown.
So starting immediately, we will approve changes for Gear Item Numbers from Gxxxxx
and xxxxxG to xxxxx. There are several hundred of these in our system, and they
can be discovered quite easily by downloading via Tab_Delimited File all Gear
item types:
https://www.bricklink.com/catalogDownload.asp?utm_content=subnav
...opening the file in Excel, and then searching the Item Number column for the
letter G.
If someone, or a group of people, would like to take on this project, it would
be greatly appreciated. Our catalog admin team is approaching the absolute busiest
time of the year and probably won't have time for this until mid February
otherwise.
Thanks!
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I see some games with G at the start and am not certain if that is what to look
for. That might be because they are (G)ames. A search for g shows that we very
often use words in gear item numbers.
I remember running into this in the past when doing inventory changes, but I
can't remember a specific example.
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| | | | | | | Author: | Admin_Russell | | Posted: | Dec 12, 2021 20:53 | | Subject: | Re: A task for someone who is able | | Viewed: | 75 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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BrickLink
ID CardAdmin_Russell
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| Location: USA, California |
| Member Since |
Contact |
Type |
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| May 9, 2017 |
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Admin |
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| BrickLink Administrator |
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| In Catalog, axaday writes:
| | In Catalog, Admin_Russell writes:
| | We recently deployed an adjustment to our catalog admin tools that allows us
to move Gear items to the Sets Item Type. One of the reasons we wanted to move
these Gear items is that they would be more searchable and help with connections
to other sites. As a result, many of the item numbers had the letter "G" removed.
This "G" (or "g") had originally been added, both as a prefix and a suffix, to
distinguish between certain parts and Gear items which shared a "given" ID; that
is, an ID that has been "given" by the LEGO Group and is clearly enough exposed
that BrickLink catalog users could use it to help identify an item.
In particular, the G was necessary for the rare occasion that either the part
or Gear item needed to be added to an inventory via one of our manual inventory
upload forms. In these cases, the forms would only allow one of the two options,
and if the user needed the other option, a catalog item number change was necessary
before uploading the request.
This problem stemmed from an effort a few years ago to simplify inventory upload
forms (they were notoriously difficult for many users to understand). At the
time we removed the input column for Item Type, since 99.9% of the time it was
unnecessary.
However, we have determined to restore the Gear item numbers affected by this
and plan to deploy, on Monday, a dropdown menu for these cases, where users can
choose between duplicate IDs. This is already a feature of our autopopulated
inventory add form, where duplicate PCCs will trigger a similar dropdown.
So starting immediately, we will approve changes for Gear Item Numbers from Gxxxxx
and xxxxxG to xxxxx. There are several hundred of these in our system, and they
can be discovered quite easily by downloading via Tab_Delimited File all Gear
item types:
https://www.bricklink.com/catalogDownload.asp?utm_content=subnav
...opening the file in Excel, and then searching the Item Number column for the
letter G.
If someone, or a group of people, would like to take on this project, it would
be greatly appreciated. Our catalog admin team is approaching the absolute busiest
time of the year and probably won't have time for this until mid February
otherwise.
Thanks!
|
I see some games with G at the start and am not certain if that is what to look
for. That might be because they are (G)ames. A search for g shows that we very
often use words in gear item numbers.
I remember running into this in the past when doing inventory changes, but I
can't remember a specific example.
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The rule of thumb is that for the examples we are looking for, the Item Number
only contains a single letter (that would be G). For IDs like like GA... or mag....,
these should not be changed. Only where the single letter g was used to distinguish
between a part and a Gear item.
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| | | | | Author: | cosmicray | | Posted: | Dec 12, 2021 08:22 | | Subject: | Re: A task for someone who is able | | Viewed: | 65 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, Admin_Russell writes:
| | We recently deployed an adjustment to our catalog admin tools that allows us
to move Gear items to the Sets Item Type. One of the reasons we wanted to move
these Gear items is that they would be more searchable and help with connections
to other sites. As a result, many of the item numbers had the letter "G" removed.
This "G" (or "g") had originally been added, both as a prefix and a suffix, to
distinguish between certain parts and Gear items which shared a "given" ID; that
is, an ID that has been "given" by the LEGO Group and is clearly enough exposed
that BrickLink catalog users could use it to help identify an item.
In particular, the G was necessary for the rare occasion that either the part
or Gear item needed to be added to an inventory via one of our manual inventory
upload forms. In these cases, the forms would only allow one of the two options,
and if the user needed the other option, a catalog item number change was necessary
before uploading the request.
This problem stemmed from an effort a few years ago to simplify inventory upload
forms (they were notoriously difficult for many users to understand). At the
time we removed the input column for Item Type, since 99.9% of the time it was
unnecessary.
However, we have determined to restore the Gear item numbers affected by this
and plan to deploy, on Monday, a dropdown menu for these cases, where users can
choose between duplicate IDs. This is already a feature of our autopopulated
inventory add form, where duplicate PCCs will trigger a similar dropdown.
So starting immediately, we will approve changes for Gear Item Numbers from Gxxxxx
and xxxxxG to xxxxx. There are several hundred of these in our system, and they
can be discovered quite easily by downloading via Tab_Delimited File all Gear
item types:
https://www.bricklink.com/catalogDownload.asp?utm_content=subnav
...opening the file in Excel, and then searching the Item Number column for the
letter G.
If someone, or a group of people, would like to take on this project, it would
be greatly appreciated. Our catalog admin team is approaching the absolute busiest
time of the year and probably won't have time for this until mid February
otherwise.
Thanks!
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Presumably these are Type G (for Gear) and are inventoried, and the inventories
contain something other than Gear ?
For example, I see [G=G31397]
but the contents are only Gear, not parts, so this is not one that you are wanting
changed ?
Nita Rae
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| | | | | | | Author: | cosmicray | | Posted: | Dec 12, 2021 08:34 | | Subject: | Re: A task for someone who is able | | Viewed: | 54 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, cosmicray writes:
| | In Catalog, Admin_Russell writes:
| | We recently deployed an adjustment to our catalog admin tools that allows us
to move Gear items to the Sets Item Type. One of the reasons we wanted to move
these Gear items is that they would be more searchable and help with connections
to other sites. As a result, many of the item numbers had the letter "G" removed.
This "G" (or "g") had originally been added, both as a prefix and a suffix, to
distinguish between certain parts and Gear items which shared a "given" ID; that
is, an ID that has been "given" by the LEGO Group and is clearly enough exposed
that BrickLink catalog users could use it to help identify an item.
In particular, the G was necessary for the rare occasion that either the part
or Gear item needed to be added to an inventory via one of our manual inventory
upload forms. In these cases, the forms would only allow one of the two options,
and if the user needed the other option, a catalog item number change was necessary
before uploading the request.
This problem stemmed from an effort a few years ago to simplify inventory upload
forms (they were notoriously difficult for many users to understand). At the
time we removed the input column for Item Type, since 99.9% of the time it was
unnecessary.
However, we have determined to restore the Gear item numbers affected by this
and plan to deploy, on Monday, a dropdown menu for these cases, where users can
choose between duplicate IDs. This is already a feature of our autopopulated
inventory add form, where duplicate PCCs will trigger a similar dropdown.
So starting immediately, we will approve changes for Gear Item Numbers from Gxxxxx
and xxxxxG to xxxxx. There are several hundred of these in our system, and they
can be discovered quite easily by downloading via Tab_Delimited File all Gear
item types:
https://www.bricklink.com/catalogDownload.asp?utm_content=subnav
...opening the file in Excel, and then searching the Item Number column for the
letter G.
If someone, or a group of people, would like to take on this project, it would
be greatly appreciated. Our catalog admin team is approaching the absolute busiest
time of the year and probably won't have time for this until mid February
otherwise.
Thanks!
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Presumably these are Type G (for Gear) and are inventoried, and the inventories
contain something other than Gear ?
For example, I see [G=G31397]
but the contents are only Gear, not parts, so this is not one that you are wanting
changed ?
Nita Rae
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One other remark ... in looking thru the Gear entries (with inventories) there
are a number of McDonald's Racer vehicles. They have a Gear item ID, but
nothing resembling a set number. Back in the early years (1999-ish) similar McDonald's
polybags had the set number in very small print on the back side of the polybag.
Of course, these only have images of the front side. If someone who has some
of these listed would be so kind as to examine the back side (possibly near the
bottom) and look for a 4 or 5 digit number, that is not used elsewhere as a set
number, that may be the objective.
kthx !
Nita Rae
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| | | | | | | Author: | Admin_Russell | | Posted: | Dec 12, 2021 20:49 | | Subject: | Re: A task for someone who is able | | Viewed: | 67 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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BrickLink
ID CardAdmin_Russell
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| Location: USA, California |
| Member Since |
Contact |
Type |
Status |
| May 9, 2017 |
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Admin |
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| BrickLink Administrator |
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| In Catalog, cosmicray writes:
| | In Catalog, Admin_Russell writes:
| | We recently deployed an adjustment to our catalog admin tools that allows us
to move Gear items to the Sets Item Type. One of the reasons we wanted to move
these Gear items is that they would be more searchable and help with connections
to other sites. As a result, many of the item numbers had the letter "G" removed.
This "G" (or "g") had originally been added, both as a prefix and a suffix, to
distinguish between certain parts and Gear items which shared a "given" ID; that
is, an ID that has been "given" by the LEGO Group and is clearly enough exposed
that BrickLink catalog users could use it to help identify an item.
In particular, the G was necessary for the rare occasion that either the part
or Gear item needed to be added to an inventory via one of our manual inventory
upload forms. In these cases, the forms would only allow one of the two options,
and if the user needed the other option, a catalog item number change was necessary
before uploading the request.
This problem stemmed from an effort a few years ago to simplify inventory upload
forms (they were notoriously difficult for many users to understand). At the
time we removed the input column for Item Type, since 99.9% of the time it was
unnecessary.
However, we have determined to restore the Gear item numbers affected by this
and plan to deploy, on Monday, a dropdown menu for these cases, where users can
choose between duplicate IDs. This is already a feature of our autopopulated
inventory add form, where duplicate PCCs will trigger a similar dropdown.
So starting immediately, we will approve changes for Gear Item Numbers from Gxxxxx
and xxxxxG to xxxxx. There are several hundred of these in our system, and they
can be discovered quite easily by downloading via Tab_Delimited File all Gear
item types:
https://www.bricklink.com/catalogDownload.asp?utm_content=subnav
...opening the file in Excel, and then searching the Item Number column for the
letter G.
If someone, or a group of people, would like to take on this project, it would
be greatly appreciated. Our catalog admin team is approaching the absolute busiest
time of the year and probably won't have time for this until mid February
otherwise.
Thanks!
|
Presumably these are Type G (for Gear) and are inventoried, and the inventories
contain something other than Gear ?
For example, I see [G=G31397]
but the contents are only Gear, not parts, so this is not one that you are wanting
changed ?
Nita Rae
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We may not change that to a set, but the G needs to be removed regardless so
it can still be searched by 31397.
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | Stellar | | Posted: | Dec 14, 2021 06:13 | | Subject: | Re: A task for someone who is able | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, Admin_Russell writes:
| | In Catalog, cosmicray writes:
| | In Catalog, Admin_Russell writes:
| | We recently deployed an adjustment to our catalog admin tools that allows us
to move Gear items to the Sets Item Type. One of the reasons we wanted to move
these Gear items is that they would be more searchable and help with connections
to other sites. As a result, many of the item numbers had the letter "G" removed.
This "G" (or "g") had originally been added, both as a prefix and a suffix, to
distinguish between certain parts and Gear items which shared a "given" ID; that
is, an ID that has been "given" by the LEGO Group and is clearly enough exposed
that BrickLink catalog users could use it to help identify an item.
In particular, the G was necessary for the rare occasion that either the part
or Gear item needed to be added to an inventory via one of our manual inventory
upload forms. In these cases, the forms would only allow one of the two options,
and if the user needed the other option, a catalog item number change was necessary
before uploading the request.
This problem stemmed from an effort a few years ago to simplify inventory upload
forms (they were notoriously difficult for many users to understand). At the
time we removed the input column for Item Type, since 99.9% of the time it was
unnecessary.
However, we have determined to restore the Gear item numbers affected by this
and plan to deploy, on Monday, a dropdown menu for these cases, where users can
choose between duplicate IDs. This is already a feature of our autopopulated
inventory add form, where duplicate PCCs will trigger a similar dropdown.
So starting immediately, we will approve changes for Gear Item Numbers from Gxxxxx
and xxxxxG to xxxxx. There are several hundred of these in our system, and they
can be discovered quite easily by downloading via Tab_Delimited File all Gear
item types:
https://www.bricklink.com/catalogDownload.asp?utm_content=subnav
...opening the file in Excel, and then searching the Item Number column for the
letter G.
If someone, or a group of people, would like to take on this project, it would
be greatly appreciated. Our catalog admin team is approaching the absolute busiest
time of the year and probably won't have time for this until mid February
otherwise.
Thanks!
|
Presumably these are Type G (for Gear) and are inventoried, and the inventories
contain something other than Gear ?
For example, I see [G=G31397]
but the contents are only Gear, not parts, so this is not one that you are wanting
changed ?
Nita Rae
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We may not change that to a set, but the G needs to be removed regardless so
it can still be searched by 31397.
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What to do about these:
[g=g1752]
[g=g1753]
[g=g1754]
Seems the ID is artificial for the catalog and not the actual LEGO number.
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | Dino | | Posted: | Dec 14, 2021 06:26 | | Subject: | Re: A task for someone who is able | | Viewed: | 71 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, Stellar writes:
| | In Catalog, Admin_Russell writes:
| | In Catalog, cosmicray writes:
| | In Catalog, Admin_Russell writes:
| | We recently deployed an adjustment to our catalog admin tools that allows us
to move Gear items to the Sets Item Type. One of the reasons we wanted to move
these Gear items is that they would be more searchable and help with connections
to other sites. As a result, many of the item numbers had the letter "G" removed.
This "G" (or "g") had originally been added, both as a prefix and a suffix, to
distinguish between certain parts and Gear items which shared a "given" ID; that
is, an ID that has been "given" by the LEGO Group and is clearly enough exposed
that BrickLink catalog users could use it to help identify an item.
In particular, the G was necessary for the rare occasion that either the part
or Gear item needed to be added to an inventory via one of our manual inventory
upload forms. In these cases, the forms would only allow one of the two options,
and if the user needed the other option, a catalog item number change was necessary
before uploading the request.
This problem stemmed from an effort a few years ago to simplify inventory upload
forms (they were notoriously difficult for many users to understand). At the
time we removed the input column for Item Type, since 99.9% of the time it was
unnecessary.
However, we have determined to restore the Gear item numbers affected by this
and plan to deploy, on Monday, a dropdown menu for these cases, where users can
choose between duplicate IDs. This is already a feature of our autopopulated
inventory add form, where duplicate PCCs will trigger a similar dropdown.
So starting immediately, we will approve changes for Gear Item Numbers from Gxxxxx
and xxxxxG to xxxxx. There are several hundred of these in our system, and they
can be discovered quite easily by downloading via Tab_Delimited File all Gear
item types:
https://www.bricklink.com/catalogDownload.asp?utm_content=subnav
...opening the file in Excel, and then searching the Item Number column for the
letter G.
If someone, or a group of people, would like to take on this project, it would
be greatly appreciated. Our catalog admin team is approaching the absolute busiest
time of the year and probably won't have time for this until mid February
otherwise.
Thanks!
|
Presumably these are Type G (for Gear) and are inventoried, and the inventories
contain something other than Gear ?
For example, I see [G=G31397]
but the contents are only Gear, not parts, so this is not one that you are wanting
changed ?
Nita Rae
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We may not change that to a set, but the G needs to be removed regardless so
it can still be searched by 31397.
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What to do about these:
[g=g1752]
[g=g1753]
[g=g1754]
Seems the ID is artificial for the catalog and not the actual LEGO number.
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That is very often the case.
[g = GA04]
The LEGO number is 8859.
By the way, the spelling of the manufacturer is RoseArt, not Rose Art.
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| | | | | Author: | FreeStorm | | Posted: | Dec 12, 2021 12:04 | | Subject: | Re: A task for someone who is able | | Viewed: | 69 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, Admin_Russell writes:
[..]
| | If someone, or a group of people, would like to take on this project, it would
be greatly appreciated. Our catalog admin team is approaching the absolute busiest
time of the year and probably won't have time for this until mid February
otherwise.
Thanks!
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I will make the change request tonight.
I take a first look to find where gears xxx[g] match parts xxx there is not a
not of gears
I need to make the same search for gear [g]xxx match parts [xxx]
-Fred
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| | | | | | | Author: | FreeStorm | | Posted: | Dec 13, 2021 15:55 | | Subject: | Re: A task for someone who is able | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, FreeStorm writes:
| | In Catalog, Admin_Russell writes:
[..]
| | If someone, or a group of people, would like to take on this project, it would
be greatly appreciated. Our catalog admin team is approaching the absolute busiest
time of the year and probably won't have time for this until mid February
otherwise.
Thanks!
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I will make the change request tonight.
I take a first look to find where gears xxx[g] match parts xxx there is not a
not of gears
I need to make the same search for gear [g]xxx match parts [xxx]
-Fred
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I think we are done with gears that end with and additional 'g'
like {10050g} to {10050}
I made all necessaries requests for gears number that matches G[DIGIT][APLHA]
like {G31397board08} to {31397board08}
or {G31397pawn03} to {31397pawn03}
-Fred
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