ProfessionsVault
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).
Links
Featured in a Curse Addon Spotlight
Please use the WowAce ticket system for any bug reports or feature requests. Bug reports in comments will be deleted.
Apply localization updates or fixes HERE
Credits:
- next96 (Korean)
- Freydis88 (German)
- alpha2009 (Chinese zhTW)
- zhTW (Chinese zhTN)
- D_Angel (Russian)
- Valdesca (Spanish esES)
- ChtiClem (French)
- bacco82 (Portuguese)
- <Fables> on US-Antonidas for lots of testing help and suggestions
- Drkestshadow on US-Antonidas for various testing help and suggestions
Please post any questions or followups in ticket 40:
http://www.wowace.com/addons/professionsvault/tickets/40-invalid-capture-index-lua-error-on-non-english-client/
Thanks for the bug report!
HI,
Would you consider for a future version a feature to select prof skills to show on a data broker for the currently logged in character. Mining 387, Smithing 224 (or icon 321) etc something like that. Maybe be able to select any prof(s) to suit the individual using it. Would be handy to replace the name of the addon with some useful 'at a glance' info.
Anyway, thought id ask. Many thanks for this excellent addon & have a great new year.
ProfessionsVault v3.9 includes:
* NEW FEATURE: Recipe coloring in bags, bank, guild bank and mail box
* Integration support for recipe coloring in Bagnon, ArkInventory, Baggins, OneBag3 and Combuctor
* Smarter auto handling of skill ups and recipe learns
* French Translation (thanks to ChtiClem)
* Chinese zhTN Translation (thanks to zhTW)
Please help us test this beta! Submit bug reports at http://www.wowace.com/addons/professionsvault/tickets/
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yoshimo I've replicated your problem and entered it as ticket 40:
http://www.wowace.com/addons/professionsvault/tickets/40-invalid-capture-index-lua-error-on-non-english-client/
I will include a fix in the next release.
Whenever i solve an archaeology project i get this:
Date: 2010-12-30 11:14:13
ID: 3
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: ...terface\AddOns\ProfessionsVault\ProfessionsVault.lua line 902:
invalid capture index
Debug:
(tail call): ?
[C]: match()
...terface\AddOns\ProfessionsVault\ProfessionsVault.lua:902: ?()
...Ons\Ace3\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:147:
...Ons\Ace3\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:147
[string "safecall Dispatcher[16]"]:4:
[string "safecall Dispatcher[16]"]:4
[C]: ?
[string "safecall Dispatcher[16]"]:13: ?()
...Ons\Ace3\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:92: Fire()
Ace3\AceEvent-3.0\AceEvent-3.0.lua:120: OnEvent()
StopAddonMessage\core.lua:282:
StopAddonMessage\core.lua:211
(tail call): ?
Also, is there any plans to include a cool-down timer for alts professions cool-downs? Not only would I give you a big hug cause I've been looking for a good cool-down watcher for a while, and it seems to me that would nicely round out this already awesome add-on.
P.S.: This is a great add-on - keep up the good work. ;)
2. Turn off all the "coloring" options under Recipe Options
I've considered adding cooldown tracking, but many addons already out there already do this (eg I use Broker_TradeCooldowns) and work just fine beside PV, so I'd just be needlessly re-inventing the wheel.
Can you please include Combuctor into your list?
It's my favorit bagaddon but not supported atm
Greetings
Kaktus
:)
Unfortunately restrictions in the Blizzard API make it impossible to perform a scan without a user click, which is why the prompt is there in the first place (ticket 23). But users who prefer not to be prompted can disable that feature and simply have the data updated lazily the next time they open that profession window or manually click the scan button.
My guild has a pretty active recipe exchange in the guild bank, but trying to find usable recipes in the clutter can be a real pain in the @$$.