LDD Manager XML Bricklinks Wanted List

[raiderlegos]

I'm looking to getting into selling instructions for modular buildings online. I create the buildings in Lego Digital Designer, and have no trouble saving copies of instructions and parts lists. I am stumped, however, by the xml file used for easy purchasing from bricklinks. I used LDD Manager to create a custom wanted list number and then make an xml file that was copied to my clipboard. I then pasted that to the upload section of my Bricklinks account. That part is not a problem. In order to test my .xml file, I created a throwaway account on bricklinks so I could verify that the .xml file worked with a different account. I pasted the LDD Manager's xml code into the upload section of the throwaway account, but the new account gave me this message:

1. Wanted List 669350 is not on the list of my wanted lists
   

Help anyone? My goal is to have a .xml file that I can email to customers and let them be able to quickly buy necessary parts from bricklinks.

[Calabar]

Batch replace "669350" inside the XML code with the a valid code for a wanted list (an existing wanted list in your account) or remove it.

[Classicsmiley]

Wanted list numbers are unique to Bricklink members, so you won't be able to create an xml file that works without modification.

[raiderlegos]

669350 is a valid wanted list number on MY account, but from any other account the xml file doesn't work. If I remove the wanted list number entirely will that enable anyone to use this? This is a short section of the xml code.

<INVENTORY>

<ITEM>

<ITEMTYPE>P</ITEMTYPE>

<ITEMID>2357</ITEMID>

<COLOR>2</COLOR>

<CONDITION>N</CONDITION>

<MINQTY>10</MINQTY>

<NOTIFY>Y</NOTIFY>

<WANTEDLISTID>669350</WANTEDLISTID>

</ITEM>

<ITEM>

<ITEMTYPE>P</ITEMTYPE>

<ITEMID>2357</ITEMID>

<COLOR>86</COLOR>

<CONDITION>N</CONDITION>

<MINQTY>32</MINQTY>

<NOTIFY>Y</NOTIFY>

<WANTEDLISTID>669350</WANTEDLISTID>

</ITEM>

[Withacee]

669350 is a valid wanted list number on MY account, but from any other account the xml file doesn't work. If I remove the wanted list number entirely will that enable anyone to use this?

That this will not work for other BL-members is normal; in their lists that number does not exist (it is globally unique).

Removing the number in the XML, leaving the tag empty, will result in the XML being added to the Main Wanted list of the member uploading it. Which could pose a problem, if that list was not empty to begin with.

Simplest alternative is to make other people create a new wanted list in their account, and use the number of that wanted list in the XML file using search and replace. Or write a simple tool that does it for them

Edited July 1, 2015 by Withacee

[Calabar]

<NOTIFY>Y</NOTIFY>

Are you sure about this?

You will receive tons of emails in your bricklink linked mail account!

[raiderlegos]

So I suppose my question is this: Other sellers of lego plans advertise that they include an xml file for easy uploading to bricklinks. How can I do that, with the goal being that the buyer has to do as little work as possible (i.e. not having to create new wanted lists, ect.)?

[djm]

So I suppose my question is this: Other sellers of lego plans advertise that they include an xml file for easy uploading to bricklinks. How can I do that, with the goal being that the buyer has to do as little work as possible (i.e. not having to create new wanted lists, ect.)?

I think that buyers are accepting that "... as little work as possible ..." extends to creating/naming their own wanted list. Although the step-by-step process creating the wanted list provides the place to paste the XML and saves it in the "main" wanted list, a user can subsequently move them to a differently named wanted list.

Take a look a few posts down at this thread http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=109841 which contains XML appropriate for use in a Bricklink wanted list.

Regards,

David

Edited July 1, 2015 by djm

[raiderlegos]

So if I remove the "<WANTEDLISTID>669350</WANTEDLISTID>" entirely from the code, you're saying that anyone will be able to use it?

[djm]

So if I remove the "<WANTEDLISTID>669350</WANTEDLISTID>" entirely from the code, you're saying that anyone will be able to use it?

Yes indeed.