"Possessions" like addon for multi boxing?

[echo]

Hello again . :P Was also wondering if anyone knew of an addon like "Possessions" (it keeps track of all the items in all your characters for one account in a searchable database, so if you need to see how many linen cloth or something like that, it'll tell you how many you have total, and also tell you which of your characters have how many, if it's on their person, mailbox, or bank, etc.) but that works for multiboxers?

I run 3 accounts from one computer, and I send a lot of tradeskill related loots to my alt boxes but can never find them. any recommendation for any type of good searchable inventory database addon geared towards multiboxers would be appreciated. :)

Thanks in advance and have a great day! :D

[The IT Monkey]

My addon for that (I forget the name of it off hand) tracks it via the INSTALL of wow. What I mean to say is all I have to do is from my main install log onto all my toons and it records what I have (I have to open their bank and mail as well). So about once a week I do that. (It also keeps track of money). It's not an up-to-date exact count of everything but it does help some.

[Xzin]

The boxing community is RIPE for some boxing specific addons.

But I can't code LUA :(

[cookcpu]

I have used this addon before but I have to drop it as there is no more update.( well, I can't find the latest version)

Very good to keep track of all your chars in the same account but not sure whether it can keep track of the another account.

[@Ang@]

Very nice add on for single account, maybe someone with lua experience can make a own release for multiboxer :P (i don't know is possibile to track on multiple account)

[@Ang@]

I think can be made with a synchronization via chat (many add-on do this) the problem is to do :P

Sorry for my english :P

[Xar]

When I was using two accounts it was very frustrating because possessions would always be out of date since I would switch accounts depending whether I was multiboxing or playing a toon on my main computer for raiding, etc.

From what I understand of add-ons is that the data is stored per account, if you look in WoW->WTF->Account folders there's only your account names, there's no SavedVariables file outside of the accounts.

Using a chat channel is a great idea, I remember using GEM for a guild I was in and it passed data via a password protected chat channel.

Another idea I had was to use a web server and database to store data and it would always be up to date. I'm not sure how add-ons that use web pages work, do the have an external program that reads the saved data in the WTF->Account folder then upload it?

[bugilt]

If you have the option to have your own guild for you boxing toons you could use the guild bank to hold the mats.

[Chorizotarian]

The problem is that any addon that tracks all of your characters does it by storing data in an account-wide file, I believe:
[WoW dir]\WTF\Account\[Account]\SavedVariables\[Addon Name].lua

You can make all of your characters seem like they share the same WoW account by symbolically linking the [Account] directories to a common location, but changes from one copy of WoW will overwrite ones from another copy when you log off. I don't believe that there is any way in the WoW API to either load or save addon settings on demand so that you could avoid this issue.

[@Ang@]

I don't know API and LUA programming, then i don't know if possible, but many add on like a recap or raid potion tracker ecc.. do this, i think they send information via chat..

We need a expert add on maker (:O) or we are stuck :S

[Drakkun]

I've seen some guild based addons that track multiple people's inv/bank. I can't remember the names, but it synced data to each other that was in the guild.

There is also one called "Guild Inventory" that will scan a player and made available to other players. It was used back in the day before guild banks were created.

[marvein]

the website wow.allakhazam.com has an addon called wowreader that (if you have an account, which is free) you can run it in the background and it will gather the data for each character that logs in and uploads it to their server. This gives you a page like this ('http://wow.allakhazam.com/profile.html?38867') for each character that you upload. Cant track bank slots though.

Also an FYI, guild banks are viewable on the armory website as well if you login.

[Chorizotarian]

I think you'd also have to log off or reload before it could upload your latest data. Since there's no way to write the data out on demand, it can't get access until you log. That's my theory anyway. If someone tests it and proves me wrong I'll be very happy.

[Falkor]

This addon idea has caught my eye! (which is a good thing)

[space reservered for link to future addon]

[@Ang@]

Thank you Falkor, good job :thumbsup:

[Chorizotarian]

Falkor you could store the data for each account in a separately (normal multi-char inventory mod with separate WTF directories for each account) and combine them at runtime via chat messages. Is that what you are planning? Could be very cool!

[@Ang@]

Any good news? :D

Just a bump :whistling:

[Mini]

The boxing community is RIPE for some boxing specific addons.
So true!

Well, i got a bit of addon experience, and should be able to write up almost anything, although, i don't got massive amounts of time.

I would suggest if the community could make a list of multiboxing addons wanted, and then we could rank the addons after most wanted, and start coding.

[Djarid]

I have created a page on the wiki "Community Development Area" for just this kind of thing... I will add a sub page for requests, hopefully we can get the community to update it with their requirements ;)

links
Community Development Page
http://www.dual-boxing.com/wiki/index.php?title=Community_Development_Area

Addon Request List
http://www.dual-boxing.com/wiki/index.php/Addon_Requests

[Mini]

Awesome!