Quote from Corrie_131338 on Mar 18^th, 2008, 12:29am:

 
 
I agree with Corrie here... for "Artist's Choice" I didn't have my gallery/store "arranged" a specific way.  Always NEW on top.   Mostly everything that showed for me was from Christmas and previous... I mean WAY previous - I've been here a year and so were many of those designs!  I didn't arrange my gallery that way.
 
After reading Mindy's post I went to my "Arrange" and as suspected, my cards were arranged as new/recent listed first.  (clearly incongruent) So,  I clicked onto "SAVE" and now it appears it's the way it "should" be.  I checked it under another browser and it came up the "correct" way also.
 
Re's "Most Popular"... I see they are mostly cards I've sold.  Older sales generally are showing first and new and recent sales are pages away.     There is absolutely no rhyme or reason to the "Most Popular" view and I for one am not a fan...  
 
Glad to hear it's just being TESTED, Mindy!  
 
Best,
Donna
 
 

Quote from Corrie_131338 on Mar 18^th, 2008, 7:21am:

 
LOL ... thanks for giving me a reason to chuckle here today, Corrie!  
 
I'll weigh in as well ... I don't like nor do I understand the Voo-Doo logic of the Most Popular sort.  
 
I understand it's an important and possbily necessary tool for shoppers.  But both here at GCU and on the reminder services pages, I found it to be very misleading.  I don't understand how a card with Zero sales ranks higher than a card with 2 sales within the same category and almost equal number of clicks.  It may have to do with the fav's and ratings here at GCU, but my feeling on this is that, while I like, respect and admire many contributors here ... it's the opinion of the people who buy cards -- expressed by their purchase of them -- that outweighs all other factors to me.  
 
We already have the "Best Sellers" feature.  If you want to have a feature like that within the individual stores, fine.  I'm not crazy about that idea either, but at least one can make sense of the ranking order.  I'm just utterly confused as to how cards with 3, 4, or even 5 individual sales (not bulk) are ranked below cards with 0 sales.  
 
Hopefully, this "test" will not be the final version of the option.  Anyone else mystified by how their cards are ranked as Most Popular within their stores?
 
On the good side, I do like the "Artist's Choice" option, but there has to be an easier way for us to configure the arrangement.  I spent 2 1/2 hours re-arranging cards on Sunday, only to find out the script timed out as well.  
 
Guess we all have to concentrate on "The Force" until we see what's going to happen.  
 
Teri
 

Quote from Corrie_131338 on Mar 18^th, 2008, 7:21am:

 
LOL  
 
We should have this sorted out by the end of today.  Looks like the Artist Choice field is in fact pulling in the wrong cards.  We will modify the sort so that it correctly pulls in cards from the Arrange Gallery tool.  If your gallery has not been arranged, then it will be sorted by newest cards.
 
Our apologies for the confusion!
 
Shaun

An update on this feature - later today you will see a refreshed version that defaults to Artist's Choice, this will show your arranged gallery with new cards coming in on the top like before.
 
If you have not arranged your gallery this will be sorted by Newest, again, like before.
 
If your gallery does not seem to be showing properly, please let us know and we will take a look at your store.  Corrie?
 
This feature, gallery sorting including the Most Popular sort, was specifically requested by artists:
http://www.greetingcarduniverse.com/forum/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1197930794  
 
We have executed this piece first as it is a far less complicated task then the new Arrange Gallery tool which is quite complicated and is being worked on in parallel.

Just so that I don't mis-understand:  If you arrange you card that's what will show up ("artist choice"), second default is by "newest", then the dreaded "most popular."  BUT, if you upload new cards and don't have the chance to reorganize (and save) your shop, the most recently created cards will show first going back to the last time you organized (and saved) your gallery? not the other way around, where the latest uploads come AFTER the latest organized site.
 
Just curious.
 
-Ernestine

Quote from Ernestine_131365 on Mar 18^th, 2008, 10:22pm:

 
Correct on most fronts.  Yes, Artist's Choice/arranged gallery first and Newest if you have not arranged your gallery.  
 
Most Popular is not a default, it is only a choice that the shopper can choose.
 
Yes, the latest/newest cards will appear before the arranged gallery.  Logic follows that most likely you are creating new cards for upcoming holidays/occasions and it's nice to see new cards appear on the storefront.
 
On a different forum topic artists seemed to be split with some artists prefering new cards to be added at the bottom and others prefering them to be added to the top:
http://www.greetingcarduniverse.com/forum/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1203763665/2#2

Quote from Mindy on Mar 18^th, 2008, 11:51pm:

 
Yes my 30 new cards are showing first, which, I don't beleive should have automatically happened as I have not done a "save" under arrange gallery in recent days.  The "sort" experiment apparently went and effectively did a "save" of the "backroom" arrangement, now requiring me to go in and move those 30 cards down and out of sight and get the ones I had up on page one back in place, some of them are my Easter Cards that I did a month ago.  I'm sure I am not alone!  
 
I think last night's "fix" could have been done without messing up prior saved artist choice arrangements.  You guys need to be a bit more careful in your zest to implement suggestions or it will triple your work and ours fixing things.
 
TOM
 
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It took about 30 minutes to move 30 cards and I did a Gallery SAVE, and on first check, the storefront is back to the way I had it.  THEN, I go over to another completely different computer, pull up the store, and the sort default is NEWEST. Grrrrrrrrrrr ...... temper, temper.
 
I then select ARTIST CHOICE, the cards come in as I have now arranged them, I close the browser, come back in and the default now is ARTIST CHOICE.
 
Seems the default for Artist Choice is not working unless a shopper selects it then it may "stick."   It should always come up as Artist's Choice right??????  I don't want new cards showing up "on top" of my arranged Artist Choice gallery.  They didn't before!  Otherwise you've created a hybrid of artist choice and newest.  Almost all of my newest cards are going into non-holiday categories as I build up my library, so I don't want them "up front" until I put them there.  This only makes common sense.