ProfessionsVault

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Simple and light-weight tracking of profession links and recipes for all your alts and friends. Tooltip enhancements and AH/merchant coloring for professions-related recipes and items - ideal for recipe collecting, profession leveling, and any serious crafting.

NOTE: PATCH 5.4 BREAKS PV AND SIMILAR ADDONS

Blizzard has made a major change to the operation of tradeskill hyperlinks in patch 5.4.0, whose implementation seriously affects their usability and fundamentally breaks addons such as ProfessionsVault that rely upon them. Read more details here, and please help complain on the Blizzard Bug Report Forums. A recent tweet from Blizzard Community Manager Bashiok hints there may be a fix forthcoming in a future client patch, however it STILL remains broken after two client patches (5.4.2).

The current release of ProfessionsVault is a "cripped" version that omits the features which rely upon working TradeSkill links (annotated below). There is still no way to open the trade skill links for characters that are offline or you are not directly interacting with. This limitation is imposed by Blizzard's broken hyperlink implementation, as described above. Other features are fully functional, notably including recipe coloring and AH scanning. It notably also allows you to open the tradeskill windows of any same-guild toon in your database (it uses the guild roster to bypass the broken hyperlinks).

Features

Profession list features

ProfessionsVault automatically records and saves the profession links of all your alts
Easily allows saving any professions linked from friends or guildies into your database
<Broken in 5.4> Provides one-click access to the Trade Skill UI of any toon's profession.
Supports easily posting links of your toon's professions to any chat
Data is shared between all your toons on the realm, including cross-faction
<Broken in 5.4> Comes pre-loaded with links to fully-stocked professions

Tooltip/Recipe features

Enhances recipe tooltips with info about which characters can learn the pattern
Colors recipes in the Auction House display to indicate which characters can learn the pattern
Colors recipes in the Merchant (vendor) window display to indicate which characters can learn them.
Automated scan allows your bank character to scan the AH for recipes learnable by any alt.
Customizable recipe coloring and character name coloring

Misc features

Includes an LDB broker with easy access to your professions, supports Fubar or Titan Panel, or can be used stand-alone
Based on the Ace3 Addon Framework
Enables the "link" button on all profession windows (default UI just has it for your own)
Integrates nicely with other profession-related addons such as Ackis Recipe List, Skillet, Advanced Trade Skill Window and Gnomeworks

Usage

Open the PV window using the minimap icon, LDB launcher or by typing "/pv show" on the command line.
PV window shows all the saved professions for your character, any alts on the same account running PV, and any profession links you've saved.
<Broken in 5.4> PV window also includes links to fully-stocked professions (ie containing every recipe)
Data update happens automatically whenever you open a trade skill window, or you can update them all at any time using the "Scan my Professions" button. PV will automatically update when you learn a recipe or skill up.
Config button can be used to configure tooltip/coloring integration.
To save any profession link into PV (eg whispered from a friend or in trade), just open the link and press the new "Save" button that appears at the bottom of the Trade Skill UI. The same technique can be used to merge profession data from a second account (dual-boxing).

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_ForgeUser405586
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Posted Jan 18, 2011
PV does not currently save the contents of your bag/bank, although I'm considering adding that feature.

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Posted Jan 19, 2011
I would really love if you could love this feature!

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Posted Feb 8, 2011
I used to use RB for the same reason. Armory does about the same thing via tooltips, plus it is great to bring up an Alt's full character set of info, bags, bank, and a lot more stuff I usually just turn off (like spells, quests, friends list)

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Posted Jan 15, 2011
I have a questions about your add on. I am looking for something similar to Ackis Recipe List (I really hope that I spelled that right). Ackis Recipe List shows trade skill recipes that you don't have and gives information on whether it is seasonal, rep, or just where to farm. It also allows you to look at alt trade skills and so much more. I don't want to go into the whole explanation of this and I know that I am not giving it all the credit it is worth. To me it has been a life saver!

As to what I am looking for. I need or rather want something that will help me identify what tradeskill the mat goes to and what recipe in specific it may be used for. For instance, if I am fishing and I fish up lavascale catfish, I would like to know all the recipes that it goes to and what professions can use it. The information can either be shown when hovering over the item in general or be an addon that I can open up and type into a search box. This would help me a lot as to I like to farm and hate not knowing if I am vendoring something that is possibly useful to someones profession. I hate alt tabbing out of wow every few minutes and going to wowhead or wow-wiki just to look it up. I know there are other people out there that feel the same way as I do.

I would like something with the function of your add-on and something with the function of Ackis Recipe list with the inclusion of being able to "search" a mat that I have or may want to farm to find out what profession it goes to. Does your add on do that, or is there any add on you can think of that may do that?

I'm sorry if these sound like dumb questions, I don't use many profession addons and the ones I do use I have had for upwards of 3 years. ^_^

Thanks ahead of time if you can help out!
~ßella <Æthernauts> Tortheldrin
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Posted Jan 18, 2011
PV does not attempt to duplicate or replace the functionality of Ackis Recipe List. The two addons work perfectly together and complement each other quite well in terms of features.

Neither currently provides the ability to see every tradeskill in any profession using a particular mat, although since most post-BC mats are used by only 1 or 2 obvious professions, you can use PV to pull up the list of "All recipes" for that profession and type the mat into the search box to see all recipes that use it.

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Posted Jan 10, 2011
Why is it that i have to have someone link me their profession? I'd like to be able to just pick up all my guildies' professions from the guild pane. Is that at all possible/in the works? It seems incredibly dumb that it can't do this, and I'd need them to whisper me their professions anytime they got a new recipe. I'm not going to pretend that I know how your addon works, but from a conceptual point of view, the notion that I'd have to continually ask them for a link is bad. The reason I downloaded this addon was a better way of tracking guild JC cuts, but if it can't pick up their profession list from the guild pane I guess I have to go back to doing it the old fashioned way.

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Posted Jan 10, 2011
ProfessionsVault *DOES* provide this feature, and afaik it's the only addon out there that does. I agree it's incredibly dumb the default UI does not provide that functionality, which is why I added it :)

Just open the profession pane from the guild roster, and ProfessionsVault should provide a "Save" button (bottom left in default UI) that saves/updates the link into your PV database. It also enables the "link" button (top-right) which is normally absent for other people's profession windows.

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Posted Jan 11, 2011
For some reason when I open up a guildies' profession, the save button is grayed out and it tells me something like 'whisper this person to get them to unlock this button' or so. Not sure what's up there...

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Posted Jan 11, 2011
Yes - that is the one limitation of this feature imposed by the Blizzard API - it needs a GUID for the character to create a valid link. Normally it will already have this from observing guild chat, but if not then just click the button to send the player any whisper and PV will get what it needs.

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Posted Jan 14, 2011
Okay got it working. I'm curious, can you add the ability to color what recipes my guildies have? I realize its incredibly niche, but it would be very helpful.

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Posted Jan 10, 2011
ProfessionsVault v4.0 includes:

Add support for Skillet and GnomeWorks Tradeskill frames
Add "/pv save" command that works the same as the save button
BUG FIX: PV was breaking coloring of non-recipes at merchant, AH and mailbox
BUG FIX: ticket 40: "invalid capture index" lua error on German client
Update German translation (thanks to Shorty on EU-Rajaxx!)

If you like this addon, PLEASE VOTE FOR IT! Click the 5 stars in the top-left corner labeled "Your Rating". Thanks!!!

Please submit any bug reports or feature requests at http://www.wowace.com/addons/professionsvault/tickets/

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Posted Jan 9, 2011
I still get colour issue in my bags. I'm using Baggins (last version here from Curse).

Apart of this, great addon!

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Posted Jan 10, 2011
Please make sure you're using version 4.0 and submit a ticket with full information at http://www.wowace.com/addons/professionsvault/tickets/

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Posted Jan 9, 2011
Unfortunately, Skillet r242 seems to kill PV's colouring of AH recipes. I'm not sure if this is something you can workaround or if the ball is in Skillet's court.

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Posted Jan 10, 2011
It works fine for me - Please make sure you're using version 4.0 and submit a ticket with full information at http://www.wowace.com/addons/professionsvault/tickets/

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Great addon! Was looking for a replacement for the good old Recipe Book and now I found it. :D

I don't have the "Save" button when using using GnomeWorks TradeSkill Frame (http://www.wowace.com/addons/gnomeworks/). Maybe you can add a Slash Command for that purpose? Or even better add a button using the "Plugin" interface of Gnomeworks just like Ackis RecipeList or LilSparky's Workshop do? That would be great!

Keep up the good work and thanks for the addon! :)

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Posted Jan 8, 2011
Support added in v4.0 beta 4

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ProfessionsVault v4.0 includes:

Add support for Skillet and GnomeWorks Tradeskill frames
Add "/pv save" command that works the same as the save button
BUG FIX: PV was breaking coloring of non-recipes at merchant, AH and mailbox
BUG FIX: ticket 40: "invalid capture index" lua error on German client
Update German translation (thanks to Shorty on EU-Rajaxx!)

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Posted Jan 1, 2011
What a great addon, thank you so much

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Posted Dec 31, 2010
I'm using the german client and get this bug-report when getting professions-skill-points:

Date: 2010-12-31 16:42:43
ID: -2
Error occured in: Global
Count: 5
Message: ...terface\AddOns\ProfessionsVault\ProfessionsVault.lua line 902:
invalid capture index
Debug:
(tail call): ?
[C]: match()
...terface\AddOns\ProfessionsVault\ProfessionsVault.lua:902: ?()
...Tom\libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:147:
...Tom\libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:147
[string "safecall Dispatcher[16]"]:4:
[string "safecall Dispatcher[16]"]:4
[C]: ?
[string "safecall Dispatcher[16]"]:13: ?()
...Tom\libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:92: Fire()
...ace\AddOns\TomTom\libs\AceEvent-3.0\AceEvent-3.0.lua:120:
...ace\AddOns\TomTom\libs\AceEvent-3.0\AceEvent-3.0.lua:119

Please can you try to fix this?

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