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Add label for pay transactions

Cristiano Midnight
Evil Snapshot Baron
Join date: 17 May 2003
Posts: 8,616
04-25-2004 11:30
I noticed that transactions involving paying a machine have started appearing in the Account History, which is a good step. I would like to see the ability to add a label for that transaction as well through scripting - for example, "GTA Tshirt" so that I can track what was purchased. This could be added as part of the money event, so that we can provide some descriptive label at that time. Buy transactions show what item was purchased, it would be very helpful to have Pay transactions also do the same.

Cristiano
Oz Spade
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Join date: 23 Sep 2003
Posts: 2,708
04-25-2004 14:10
I endorse this feature/idea, any extra info is good.
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Bino Arbuckle
Registered User
Join date: 31 Dec 2002
Posts: 369
04-25-2004 22:44
Cristiano, the main problem here is that there is no link between what is bought in the scripting language to the pay transaction.

I had a novel idea one day to temporarily change the name of the vendor object to the name of the item being sold. Now, the transaction line in account history says "Person XXX paid $$$ into Item - Sim Name"

Used a combination of llSetObjectName() and llGetRegionName() to do so. Along with the current for sale item name.

Surprised other people haven't picked that up. The object name really isn't that important until you pull it into inventory, but, if the vendor is built well, you shouldn't ever have to.

The person whom I did the vendor modifications for is very enamored with the idea of everything being in the account history, it is almost as good as putting out a bajillion item boxes set to "sell contents".
Cristiano Midnight
Evil Snapshot Baron
Join date: 17 May 2003
Posts: 8,616
04-26-2004 10:02
Bino,

That is an excellent idea - I will try that.

Cristiano