When I run a session, I would be using one of my laptops versus an iPad and definitely not my phone. There is no easy way to only see purchased materials on the PC. Why not add it under Collections? Or is there some other way to easily see our owned material? If there is, it's not intuitive because I see the same question asked in other sites.
The easiest way is porbably to open tabs of every source you might need before the session. Thats how i deal with it when I DM. Sometimes I even have several tabs open of the same time if I know I will look through different chapters at the same time.
But I agree, it would be nice if there was a easy to find and click list of owned sources.
I put in a ticket asking if they had another solution besides marketplace which shows purchased items but cannot open since they are not links and not sources since that shows owned and unowned all together. Want to guess what the response was, marketplace and sources. It's like they didn't even read what I said in the ticket. Good developers would make it easy to access the material. I like D&D Beyond but that is a major oversight. If we're lucky, perhaps Wizards will see the missing functionality and have them add it. They're adding Maps which will take a lot more effort. Why not add the feature to the Collections tab? Or they can add a filter to not show unowned items under the Sources drop down. They have a filter to show or not show owned items but no filter to not show unowned items in sources. Doing it the way they have it just seems money hungry forcing you to go through items you don't own. I'm a dev myself so this wouldn't be hard to implement at all.
https://www.dndbeyond.com/account/marketplace then scroll down to see what you own. no links, obvs, but combine that with a tab for each and you should be good. Plus, if you own it, it shows up in the searchable listings -- what you don't also does, but that's kinda expected given yeah, as a business, they are going to advertise to you.
As a Dev, you probably also know that the code here is at the bare minimum frankensteinian, with likely some tools and restrictions we cannot see from this side of the site.
Meaning "wouldn't be hard" depends on more than just code base, it also depends on focus, plans, and more -- WotC's only had the dang site a bit more than a year, which is likely just enough time to finally start getting a clue on the underlying code -- and that still has to adapt to the updating and changes they expect to bring out for the next year and change (given the 50th anniversary is going to change the site pretty significantly).
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I think airing the concern in the Feedback part of this board may log your concern, along with everyone else voicing that, more effectively than putting in a ticket. IIRC the trouble ticket thing is a ZenDesk costumer service contract. So basically you sent a ticket saying "I can't find my stuff" and they wrote back "here's how you find your stuff." That customer service system is for when something's broken, but in this case the system's behaving as designed. There's no channel from that desk to the devs. The Feedback subforum is said to be reported to if not actually read by DDB's dev team.
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Actually, I used the ticket process to confirm there is no way to easily see my products before adding to the forums. Not to mention, people have asked for this for quite some time with no results correct? It's easy to ignore forums. A post in a forum can go with no response for a very long time if ever. That's true for any forum. a ticket goes into a queue. It forces some action to clear the ticket whether they actually fix the issue or not. The first response was terrible. Obviously the company person responding didn't actually read the ticket and responding with what I said specifically doesn't work. So I replied as such. The next response was honest and the person read the ticket. They acknowledged the feature I requested was not there and thanked me for providing the feedback. Granted, they've had that feedback from others longer than me by a long shot. Established companies don't often make changes unless they see a monetary benefit OR significant feedback from customers. TBH, if people would like this feature, put in a ticket. Let's get their attention. If you don't let them know in mass that it is a desired feature, you can't blame them for not making it happen.
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When I run a session, I would be using one of my laptops versus an iPad and definitely not my phone. There is no easy way to only see purchased materials on the PC. Why not add it under Collections? Or is there some other way to easily see our owned material? If there is, it's not intuitive because I see the same question asked in other sites.
The easiest way is porbably to open tabs of every source you might need before the session. Thats how i deal with it when I DM. Sometimes I even have several tabs open of the same time if I know I will look through different chapters at the same time.
But I agree, it would be nice if there was a easy to find and click list of owned sources.
I put in a ticket asking if they had another solution besides marketplace which shows purchased items but cannot open since they are not links and not sources since that shows owned and unowned all together. Want to guess what the response was, marketplace and sources. It's like they didn't even read what I said in the ticket. Good developers would make it easy to access the material. I like D&D Beyond but that is a major oversight. If we're lucky, perhaps Wizards will see the missing functionality and have them add it. They're adding Maps which will take a lot more effort. Why not add the feature to the Collections tab? Or they can add a filter to not show unowned items under the Sources drop down. They have a filter to show or not show owned items but no filter to not show unowned items in sources. Doing it the way they have it just seems money hungry forcing you to go through items you don't own. I'm a dev myself so this wouldn't be hard to implement at all.
https://www.dndbeyond.com/account/marketplace then scroll down to see what you own. no links, obvs, but combine that with a tab for each and you should be good. Plus, if you own it, it shows up in the searchable listings -- what you don't also does, but that's kinda expected given yeah, as a business, they are going to advertise to you.
As a Dev, you probably also know that the code here is at the bare minimum frankensteinian, with likely some tools and restrictions we cannot see from this side of the site.
Meaning "wouldn't be hard" depends on more than just code base, it also depends on focus, plans, and more -- WotC's only had the dang site a bit more than a year, which is likely just enough time to finally start getting a clue on the underlying code -- and that still has to adapt to the updating and changes they expect to bring out for the next year and change (given the 50th anniversary is going to change the site pretty significantly).
Only a DM since 1980 (3000+ Sessions) / PhD, MS, MA / Mixed, Bi, Trans, Woman / No longer welcome in the US, apparently
Wyrlde: Adventures in the Seven Cities
.-=] Lore Book | Patreon | Wyrlde YT [=-.
An original Setting for 5e, a whole solar system of adventure. Ongoing updates, exclusies, more.
Not Talking About It / Dubbed The Oracle in the Cult of Mythology Nerds
I think airing the concern in the Feedback part of this board may log your concern, along with everyone else voicing that, more effectively than putting in a ticket. IIRC the trouble ticket thing is a ZenDesk costumer service contract. So basically you sent a ticket saying "I can't find my stuff" and they wrote back "here's how you find your stuff." That customer service system is for when something's broken, but in this case the system's behaving as designed. There's no channel from that desk to the devs. The Feedback subforum is said to be reported to if not actually read by DDB's dev team.
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
Another workaround while we wait for them to implement quicker and easier access to owned books, is to use bookmarks in your browser.
Actually, I used the ticket process to confirm there is no way to easily see my products before adding to the forums. Not to mention, people have asked for this for quite some time with no results correct? It's easy to ignore forums. A post in a forum can go with no response for a very long time if ever. That's true for any forum. a ticket goes into a queue. It forces some action to clear the ticket whether they actually fix the issue or not. The first response was terrible. Obviously the company person responding didn't actually read the ticket and responding with what I said specifically doesn't work. So I replied as such. The next response was honest and the person read the ticket. They acknowledged the feature I requested was not there and thanked me for providing the feedback. Granted, they've had that feedback from others longer than me by a long shot. Established companies don't often make changes unless they see a monetary benefit OR significant feedback from customers. TBH, if people would like this feature, put in a ticket. Let's get their attention. If you don't let them know in mass that it is a desired feature, you can't blame them for not making it happen.