(Yesterday, 8:23)Gerald Lasser Wrote: I would rather abstain from obsoleting parts due to their orientation, they might not fit into their realm, but that generates a lot of a/b/c versions that (however less we say we care) don'T match the BL or RB descriptions/designid.
The problem is that we are using abc both for different geometry and for replacements of undesired geometry. The latter could be better handled with versioning.
12345 version 1
12345 version 2
Now that I think of it, the former could also be implemented using "versioning" that are not intended to replace
12345
12345 variant b
We also use letters to enumerate parts of multipacks.
Getting back to the original topic; I wanted to discover some way of annotating official parts with a tag that states what would need to be fixed if a part for some other reason is being edited. IMHO, the "needs work" sounds appropriate although it is not currently used or even intended for such use.
Maybe !NEEDSWORK could be added as a meta instead of being appended to the description and/or comments/!HELP.
Why not create a !BRICKLINK meta specifically for taking care of the mapping? Or a !LINK meta with two arguments - one for the authority (e.g. BrickLink), and the other for the ID?