PRINTING MY COLLECTION

[fleetlordatvar]

fixed.. found the model

very good work ... again

[Ops Manager]

Thanks.. now go out to other sites and get people to come here! :)

[Siegerflieger]

fixed.. found the model

Thanks indeed, but I'm getting a new error message now:

mPDF error: IMAGE Error (http://www.wafflecollectibles.com/db.../66525.1.jpg): Could not find image file

Shall we take this offline? How?

[fleetlordatvar]

Thanks.. no go out to other sites and get people to come here! :)

i thought you wanted more ppl on this site.

[Ops Manager]

thats "now go out to other sites and get people to come here"

[foundation]

One way to increase visibility of this site is to mention it in your eBay auctions

[foundation]

They don't allow links to other sites, but you can still mention the DiecastModelAircraft database and DIMA ID# and/or even put a signature that says something like, "keep track of your collection and get alerts of other airplanes you are looking for by using the diecastmodelaircraft database (google: dima)"

[fleetlordatvar]

hmmm. I don't remember seeing a signature before.

[foundation]

well some 3rd party posting tools have a "signature" field that appends it to the end of whatever text you put in the description, but I just meant you can paste it in at the end of your item description

[Ops Manager]

Sieger, give your print a try now please.

[Siegerflieger]

Sieger, give your print a try now please.

Thanks, I hope this doesn't turn into a neverending story...

mPDF error: IMAGE Error (http://www.wafflecollectibles.com/db.../66122.1.jpg): Could not find image file

Can't the print feature be made more error tolerant? Or the web server be instructed to deliver a default image for any requests it doesn't have an image for?

[Ops Manager]

Sieger, thats exactly what I coded, in fact if you go to https://www.wafflecollectibles.com/d...bs/66122.1.jpg you'll notice it shows a no photo. However that model and the one you mentioned yesterday are not activated in our system. That is, they are turned off. I need to ask waffle and find out.

[Ops Manager]

Sieger, give it another whirl, i made another code change to ignore the bad image. I think we got it this time.

[Siegerflieger]

Sieger, give it another whirl, i made another code change to ignore the bad image. I think we got it this time.

... and bingo, we have lift-off! Thanks a million!

[Ops Manager]

Great to hear. Debugging this allowed me to uncover another error which i was able to fix too.. appreciate it.

[Siegerflieger]

However that model and the one you mentioned yesterday are not activated in our system. That is, they are turned off. I need to ask waffle and find out.

I discovered a few that were imported from W900 without error messages but still didn't show and weren't searchable either. Those were fixed, but it seems you found two more of those. How many more might there be?

[Ops Manager]

Some may have been disabled for reasons.. there are a handful in there that are turned off, waffle needs to answer this..

[arinmuk]

Folks - What opsmanager has said is very true for a .csv export of the data. Someone can completely download the special database that these folks have created working possibly several hours a day.
I can suggest a few things to help . You can use MS excel to maintain a list of model . Initial Creation time will be difficult but as you have done that once , you can just simply add to the sheet.
Those with MS Access experience can easily do a database themselves and the templates given in the software . I have built my own and initially it took time but I was able to enhance and make it quit robust for my use . Yes initially it took me several days to update the data but as I buy I keep it updated.

if you don't want any fancy stuff them excel or excel type alternative available for your use free

[foundation]

I could certainly do that, and in the absence of DIMA I would, but I would not do both and I would prefer to be a member of the community here.

The database protection seems to be a Loss_aversion based argument (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_aversion -- humans will spend 10 times as much to avoid something bad as to get something good). Yes theoretically somebody could go through 1064 pages of models and on each page click got it, then click outside the javascript window to dismiss the dialog and then export the database with a total of 64852 clicks, but dima could easily limit collections or collection export to 80% of the current number of models. but having the safety net of an export, might make many more people with personal databases willing to participate in the community here.

[Siegerflieger]

I probably said it before: If someone really wants to download the entire database, they can do that already. It only takes a few lines of code, which is easily available. It's like any other website.

Not encouraging it in any way!