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Wed, 03 Mar 2010, 05:47pm #1
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Users have requested that a Shopping List feature be added to the Price Book app. What functionality should this Shopping List feature have?

1) For each item on a shopping list should the cheapest store be shown or the closest store, or the store in a certain area like downtown?

2) Is a list of stores needed? So you can select which store you are in? Or you can put the selected store next to the item in the shopping list?

3) When you are in each store, would you get a list of items that were cheapest at that store? Or could you look at your shopping list and it would provide a rank for each item to tell you what the price rank was for that store compared to other stores as well as the price difference to the next rank?

4) Should shopping lists be made by having context and tag fields per price? Then you could have a context for downtown or midtown, or food shopping, or gift shopping. In this way all of the food items you want could automatically be
turned into a list, without you having to create it. You could say, give me the list of food items I purchase when I'm downtown.

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Sat, 22 May 2010, 07:15pm #2
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Cheapest definitely needs to be available information.But context like "Downtown" would be good too. The other price book app puts the lowest price in green text, higher prices in red, so you can tell at a glance if it is the best price or not. A drop down menu of the other prices/stores, that you could view to compare or click on to switch and see where it is less may be helpful but sounds rather complicated to me. I am of course referring to unit prices- actual price is useless in real price comparison.

A list of stores is definitely needed. I shop at about 6 different food stores in the course of a month. Closest is of little concern to me. I know where the stores are located.

When I go in a store I like referring to a list of items I "usually" get in that store. Being able to associate or "favorite" items with a particular store would be great.
I currently keep a separate list of "need from somewhere or anywhere" as well. This is especially for items I have no idea where they are found or where the best price might be. Obviously you would have to be able to add items with no price or store info. (Salt Peter for making smoke balls- still haven't found that one yet.)

I love the addition of an area context, perhaps even one where the store could have more than one? Like Southside and Eastside may both have a Dollar Tree? Examples I currently use are Town, Out of Town, Southside and Northside. I have lists for each and list for inside each individual store as well.

And here is my added dream request. It seems there should be some way to add items bought (checked off of an active list) onto a pantry inventory list. At the same token there should be someway to check off used items from that pantry list to make a shopping list. Perhaps the items checked off a shopping list could be exported to the pantry list, though it would be nice if there was a way to individually turn the feature on and off if you should decide you no longer want an item at all. Perhaps a field pantry- yes/no and then quantity on hand? Further dreaming..would be if the date items were purchased were automatically associated as well and you could sort them by date- so older stuff yo may have forgotten about get used better. I would just assume the older gets used first for purposes of reasonably maintaining a pantry inventory.

A bar code scanner would be an awesome addition though sadly I only have an i-touch and unless they add cameras to them in the next update I will be unable to use that great sounding feature.

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Thu, 22 Jul 2010, 07:23am #3
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Being able to build shopping lists per store based on cheapest items would be very welcome. I search the app store frequently for such an app. To keep it simple, I would just have a "show all items in list" to display items in the master list that are not the cheapest at the store visited.

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Wed, 13 Oct 2010, 06:48pm #4
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I've created a new app that is now in the app store at

http://tinyurl.com/aerende-ShoppingListPB

that contains the Price Book app with a Shopping List functionality added to it. This new app has the following features:

1) Can create a shopping List populated by items that you've entered prices for.
2) Select different stores and see what the total cost of the shopping list is.
3) Select for each item the store that has the cheapest cost and see what the total is.
4) Select specific stores for each item and see what the total is.
5) Check off items as you purchase them.

There is a video that shows the functioning of the Shopping List and Price Book app here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc_8ycvdAgQ

A new version of this Shopping List app with new features and bug fixes will be out very soon. I look forward to hearing from people regarding their feedback on this app and would appreciate any suggestions for new features for this Shopping List and Price Book app.

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Fri, 15 Oct 2010, 11:02am #5
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I just tried linking to the video and got the message that the video is private. What search term should I use to find it?

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Fri, 15 Oct 2010, 02:52pm #6
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@Tenore Primo -

Thank you very much for pointing this out! I have made the video public. Please let me know if you have any trouble viewing it.

Thanks,

Jim

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Fri, 15 Oct 2010, 04:13pm #7
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I'm not sure what is going on. I installed shopping list and tried to download my price book data and it bombed at 61 out of 65. I decided to try deleting and reinstalling, but after I deleted it, I went back into the itunes library and couldn't find it to reinstall.

False alarm. I followed your link above and was able to re-download it.

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Fri, 15 Oct 2010, 04:32pm #8
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Are there any forbidden characters to use in the price database? Shopping list won't download my database. It stops at number 57. At first I thought the problem was an ampersand, which I changed, but now I can't figure out why.

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Fri, 15 Oct 2010, 05:31pm #9
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@Tenore Primo -

The main forbidden characters are single and double quotes. I've tried to block the ability to enter them into items and prices but somehow users can enter them. See link below:

http://www.forum.pricebook.aerende.com/topics/1...

Please let me know if removing single and double quotes doesn't fix your download and I will take a look.

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Sat, 16 Oct 2010, 06:02am #10
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Unfortunately, a single quote is also an apostrophe, which is frequently included in brand names. The only reason your program didn't prevent it is that my Mac automatically turns them into single "curly" quotes, which your program does accept, but bombs upon finding. Also, apparently the ampersand and percent characters are problems. After finding and removing the above, the database imported fine. I have to say that the process of finding and correcting these problems is a tedious, trial and error debugging. I shouldn't have to do it. None of those characters, or any other commonly used ones, should be prohibited.

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Sat, 16 Oct 2010, 02:41pm #11
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@Tenore Primo

I agree that these characters should be allowed. The database that I use does not allow these characters. What I think I can do is to JSON encode them before I store them and then JSON decode the strings when I read them from the database. I will put that in next version. I'm sorry for the inconvenience.

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Sun, 17 Oct 2010, 07:52am #12
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FYI - These are the new features and bugs that have been fixed in the Shopping List app that has been released as Version 1.1 in the app store:

- from a shopping list, can create multiple lists, one per store containing items that are cheapest at that store
- for a given store, create a list of all items that are cheapest at that store
- fixed initial text for Store and Total on Lists page
- last total and store retained per list on Lists page
- fixed disappearing of lists and list-items when scrolling
- fixed checkbox errors
- store deleted from stores database when last item for that store deleted
- fixed crash that occurred when item/price added to list is deleted

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Wed, 20 Oct 2010, 04:01am #13
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admin wrote:

@Tenore Primo

I agree that these characters should be allowed. The database that I use does not allow these characters. What I think I can do is to JSON encode them before I store them and then JSON decode the strings when I read them from the database. I will put that in next version. I'm sorry for the inconvenience.

Just to give you another example, not to put pressure on you :), I buy a Coffee Creamer with the name "Rich&Creamy." I'll have to spell it out for now.

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