A key DB that does multiple names at a time?
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Aaron Levy
Medicated Lately?
Join date: 3 Jun 2004
Posts: 2,147
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11-12-2005 20:04
I have about 100 customers I need to send an update to and because SLEX has still not implented a feature to send an upgrade of an item to everyone who's bought it in the past, I'm being forced to do it manually. I have an object I bought in game that will send the item to people if I have their key, and I am using a key DB to get keys to send people their updates.
This thread is NOT to discuss the ethics of key DBs and crap. Go elsewhere. I'm trying to send updates to more than 100 customers, and I'm trying to save myself HOURS of time I would have to take away from my family.
Is there a key DB site that can do multiple names at once? Thanks!
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Aaron Levy
Medicated Lately?
Join date: 3 Jun 2004
Posts: 2,147
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11-12-2005 21:19
Anyone? All I know of is Ulrika's and her's is one at a time.
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Enabran Templar
Capitalist Pig
Join date: 26 Aug 2004
Posts: 4,506
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11-12-2005 21:49
Early on I had to do just this with about 75 customers. It didn't take hours, though. The whole process of dropping the inventory took me about 20 minutes.
Wasn't wildly fun, but not impossible, either.
You might in the future try building your own key database. Just have your boxes E-Mail the keys of their owner on_rez and then auto-delete the script containing the llEmail call.
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Stylez Gomez
Union Micro
Join date: 4 Jun 2004
Posts: 146
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11-13-2005 07:34
Yeah this would be pretty useful. I took it into my own hands to make a system that logs the keys of users who purchase your items from supported vendors, and have that list copy & pastable into a sister delivery system for sending out product updates.
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Alondria LeFay
Registered User
Join date: 2 May 2003
Posts: 725
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11-13-2005 08:38
It should not be too difficulty to take Ulrika's datafile and write a script that would take a text file of the names, iterate through all of them, and produce another with their keys. A better alternative though would be to add to this update some sort of automated update system, where upon rez it sends the user's UUID to a device that stores all of these keys and when you have to update, you can make it so the updater will just simply give the item to everyone it recorded.
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Moopf Murray
Moopfmerising
Join date: 7 Jan 2004
Posts: 2,448
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11-13-2005 15:27
Rathe Underthorn has a name to key system available that you can use through LSL.
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Tcoz Bach
Tyrell Victim
Join date: 10 Dec 2002
Posts: 973
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11-14-2005 17:34
Oh great. Multi spam. On and on it goes.
You should all be ashamed.
Careful what you say...
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Cid Jacobs
Theoretical Meteorologist
Join date: 18 Jul 2004
Posts: 4,304
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11-14-2005 18:52
From: Tcoz Bach Oh great. Multi spam. On and on it goes.
You should all be ashamed. On the flip side, there is one really good and legit reason for using a Name2Key service: Web-based SL retailers both large and small have equal access to a public resource such as the name2key database. Without access to such a database (or preferably an LSL function) new-start SL web retailers are at a disadvantage, when competing with older more established web retailers.  Don't be ashamed. |
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Huns Valen
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Join date: 3 May 2003
Posts: 2,749
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11-15-2005 17:54
If Web retailers did have an auto-update system, I'd think that would prove enormously useful. It would be something to keep an eye on, though. Anything that creates lots of assets in a short time can have an adverse impact on the grid. I believe someone from SLBoutique pushed some sort of "wallet" object to all SLB customers, and they got contacted by Linden Lab because of it. So, to avoid getting in hot water with LL, these systems would have to throttle themselves pretty well.
I once had a script give a notecard to a little over 60 people in the span of a couple minutes, and I wasn't contacted, so I don't think the implications of this are TOO bad until you start getting into high volumes.
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