Announcing: SmugSales Basic

luke_church

Hi All,

Just to let you know, I've now wrapped the very simple SmugSales analysis spreadsheet into a package and stuck it on a website...

Available right here: http://www.smugtools.com/SmugSales/Download.htm

And the 2 minute tutorial: http://www.smugtools.com/SmugSales/Tutorial.htm

Key features:

-> Free :
-> Profit vs timeline chart + table
-> Profit vs Album chart + table
-> Sales vs Album chart + table
-> All done in Excel, very flexible

For Windows users, there is an additional tool that automatically gets a full list of galleryIDs vs Galleries.

But the spreadsheet is available to all users who can talk to Excel...

Please note that this software was put together fairly quickly, and should be considered to be early-BETA grade. There probably will be bugs, please report them here, and I'll do my best to help.

This is not the end of the line, product updates will be delivered to make this better. SmugSales Standard or something along those lines will be released in summer 2006.

I've tried pretty hard to make sure that it won't do anything stupid, like transmit your password unencrypted, or delete anything on the hard disk...

So please, take a look, let me know what you think, and how it could be improved. I'm looking forwards to your suggestions.

All the best,

Luke

luke_church

First bug caught and killed. Under certain circumstances incorrect User login details were met in the AlbumExtractor by an exception and tear down, rather than an error message.

As I warned, the error messages may not be helpful in this somewhat primitive version :

Please download a new copy of the zip file, containing the updated executable

Cheers,

Luke

PS. Thanks go to Tom for helping squash that one...

ExposeTheMoment

Use Of Smugmug Not Allowed

luke_church wrote:

First bug caught and killed. Under certain circumstances incorrect User login details were met in the AlbumExtractor by an exception and tear down, rather than an error message.

As I warned, the error messages may not be helpful in this somewhat primitive version :

Please download a new copy of the zip file, containing the updated executable

Cheers,

Luke

PS. Thanks go to Tom for helping squash that one...

See thread

http://www.digitalgrin.com/showthread.php?t=9093

luke_church

Hi Gary,

Thanks for the pointer, I have considered this already...

If you look through the thread that you linked to, you'll find at one point Don states

PS - I think "SmugExplorer" or "Smug Explorer" is a much better name than "SM Explorer", but it's your product. "SM Explorer" could mean anything that has SM as the initials, it doesn't have any sort of emotional connotations, it's not memorable, etc. It's sorta an efficient name that an engineer would think of - not a branding wizard

I don't ever use Smugmug's name, mearly Smug* names. As Don suggested this for another product, and I have already cleared the SmugTools domain with them I don't think there'll be a problem.

However, of course if Smugmug have an issue, I'm sure they'll let me know and we'll work something out.

Thanks for the pointer anyhow,

Luke

Andy

http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?p=251918#post251918

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