ImplementedYear Entry Not Working In Catalog
This may already be a known issue. I noticed today that the year of the stamp is not filling in correctly when I am using the List Similar function. The country, year and condition all update as soon as I put in my description but in most cases the year is not changing and it is just taking the same year as the previous entry. I even put in "0000" myself and it carried that into the next stamp I put in. I do not know how important this is - and there is no way I am going to be correcting these entries. Most of my customers really only care about the Scott # and to see the image.
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The last time I listed Scott 346 was shown as 1928 (correct) and the next stamp listed was from the 50's Scott #789 and the date changed to 1914 (fictitious example here but this kind of thing happens every time I list). I posted at least once but no one picked up on it ...... and at this point I doubt anyone is going to go back and change them because few people in the US search by year except for postal history and I put the year in the title... hopefully search will pick that up - it certainly did in Bidstart. At some point they are going to have to figure out how to correct all the wrong year dates they have auto filled.
When you click on List Similar, every field, including Attributes such as Year, are copied to the new listing. That's the purpose of List Similar.
Not related to the above, when you enter in a new Item Title, if we have Catalog Information available for the Country / Catalog Number you've entered - we auto-fill in the information, such as year. However, we do not have Catalog information for every stamp - particularly Year of Issue. So when we don't have this information available, we don't automatically fill in anything.
So we wouldn't fill in the wrong year, but if you're using List Similar, the Year you entered on the last item will still be there if we can't fill it in for you - since that's the purpose of List Similar to pre-populate all fields with the values of the last listing.
There were a few discussions regarding this previously, and it was discussed what made more sense. Leaving List Similar to work the same as it always has. Or, if when using List Similar, and you enter in a new Country / Catalog Number to clear out the year field. There was not a particularly strong call for either option, so we had left it as-is. However, as of today, we updated this such that if you are using List Similar, and enter in a Country / Catalog Number for an item we do not know the year of - we'll clear out the Year field (assuming it's not the same as the last item - though you can re-enter the information). We'll watch this closely over the next week and review the feedback.