"fixed" something that has been bugging me about heritage search for a long time.

mingot

Heritage's search drives me up the wall. The site is fairly slow and every time i searched I found myself having to uncheck the virtual bourse, buy now from owner, inventory, etc buttons. Waiting the few seconds after I unchecked each one. Yeah, probably a small complaint, but still, anything that slows me down when I am doing the weekly search aggravates.

Anyhow, I noticed that the search options were being encoded into the URL each time, so I simply refined my search and then bookmarked that final search page.

For example, after I unchecked everything my url was:

http://coins.ha.com/common/search_results.php?Nty=1&Ntk=SI_Titles&N=51+793+792&Ntt=jefferson+5c

I bookmark that, name it "jefferson search" and viola, no more hassling with the checkboxes. You can also sort and use the url after a sort to "encode" that into your bookmark as well.

Anyhow, hope this was useful and made sense.

kimber45ACP

Nice tip. I uncheck the same boxes too. I will use your tip on my searches.

Thanks.

LanceNewmanOCC

<< <i>I bookmark that, name it "jefferson search" and viola, no more hassling with the checkboxes. You can also sort and use the url after a sort to "encode" that into your bookmark as well. >>



bookmarking is good advice. at least for those that don't like doing things the hard way every time.

i have hundreds of bookmarks sorted into folders. some are 4-5 levels deep. seems anal, but once you set em up you are good-to-go.

what is that phrase, "short-term pain for long-term gain"

messydesk

Once upon a time, I reverse-engineered eBay's URLs, sales categories, and search parameters and wrote an application that basically let you set up your entire search without using the internet (this was a big deal with dial-up long ago) and then just execute your search in one URL transaction. It worked well enough for a while, then eBay decided to make frequent "improvements" that were hard to keep up with, so I abandoned it. A browser plug-in for Heritage's catalog search that essentially does the same thing would be pretty cool, and the thread title will probably ensure that someone from Heritage takes a look at this thread.