Not a fan of the new product library layout

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  • KeryaKerya Posts: 10,943

    A prime example of why we NEED the old Product Library Layout:

    Today there is a new product Predatron Ornamental Trees and Bushes. However, there also was at one time PredPack - Ornamental Trees which I own but has now been discountinued. With no description in the Product Library and no Product page to go to I have NO way of comparing the products to to determine if I want the new one.

     

    Could you send them a ticket with that description?

    The more examples of real use of the information that was on the old pages, the better.

    At the moment I am afraid they might think it's just people resistant to change ...

  • vwranglervwrangler Posts: 4,901

    A prime example of why we NEED the old Product Library Layout:

    Today there is a new product Predatron Ornamental Trees and Bushes. However, there also was at one time PredPack - Ornamental Trees which I own but has now been discountinued. With no description in the Product Library and no Product page to go to I have NO way of comparing the products to to determine if I want the new one.

    Hopefully, this will help for your specific issue, although it's also terribly sparse: https://3d-stuff.community/catalog/pred-pack-ornamental-trees/

    I expect that was removed because the updated items were being worked on, since the trees were in the store as late as 2015. (You asked a question about them then, in fact, whether or not they would work for an orange grove. Unfortunately, nobody answered. For what it's worth -- five years later -- I would imagine you need to scale the ornamental trees up to make a tree big enough for an orange grove; depending on how it's built, you might need to figure out a way to put two or three of them together into one tree as well. Ornamental trees are wee, comparatively speaking. Orange trees for fruit look to be 8-10 feet tall and bushy, from images I've seen.)

  • 3Diva said:
    3Diva said:
    3Diva said:

    I put in for a refund for my entire order of old products bought tonight - not one single item appeared in my dim and from the looks of it the only options being offered to download is central and or manual zip both which don't use actually one is zip only though on their pages dim is listed

    That's weird, the large purchase of older items I made a few hours ago are all showing up in DIM.

    tried several times without any luck, not been having a lot of luck lately with purchases had a lot of stuff not showing up in right locations or missiing files or other problems these were new releases too but tonight bought bunch of pretty old I think content well other add on content poses I didn't get are from the Michael/Vicky 4 days

    https://www.daz3d.com/the-village-blacksmith

     

    https://www.daz3d.com/old-forge

     

    https://www.daz3d.com/old-west-saloon

     

    https://www.daz3d.com/the-old-west-saloon-interior

     

    https://www.daz3d.com/old-west-undertakers-interior

     

    https://www.daz3d.com/old-west-mercantile-interior

     

    https://www.daz3d.com/old-west-sheriffs-office-interior

    Did your products ever show up in DIM? I just made a purchase about 10 minutes ago and none of the purchased products from that lastest order are showing up in DIM for me.

    they've fixed dim

    hahah Yeah! https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/5968111/#Comment_5968111 THANK GOODNESS! :D I'm downloading my purchases right now. :) Whew, I'm glad that's sorted out. I was having all kinds of trouble with it. When I finally was able to get some of the products to show up in DIM I kept getting "Failed to Install" errors. Looks like, according to DAZ_Rawb's comment, that it was a server synchronization issue and that the error should be fixed now so that it shouldn't happen again. *crosses fingers*

    I'm happy too even though I asked for a refund I did want these products and happy got them really for my western themes was gonna get stonemason set too but that's huge thought have trouble using and with these maybe easier do scenes and I think jack did at least some of them so they're good too. Interesting you bring up the failed to install errors had some of them too lately as well as mentioned before some new releases were missing files or not located in right sections or virtually unfindable wonder if all related and if I do unistall in studio then reinstall it'll fix them nowor till something they working on

  • ArtAngel said:
    3Diva said:
    3Diva said:

    I put in for a refund for my entire order of old products bought tonight - not one single item appeared in my dim and from the looks of it the only options being offered to download is central and or manual zip both which don't use actually one is zip only though on their pages dim is listed

    That's weird, the large purchase of older items I made a few hours ago are all showing up in DIM.

    tried several times without any luck, not been having a lot of luck lately with purchases had a lot of stuff not showing up in right locations or missiing files or other problems these were new releases too but tonight bought bunch of pretty old I think content well other add on content poses I didn't get are from the Michael/Vicky 4 days

    https://www.daz3d.com/the-village-blacksmith

     

    https://www.daz3d.com/old-forge

     

    https://www.daz3d.com/old-west-saloon

     

    https://www.daz3d.com/the-old-west-saloon-interior

     

    https://www.daz3d.com/old-west-undertakers-interior

     

    https://www.daz3d.com/old-west-mercantile-interior

     

    https://www.daz3d.com/old-west-sheriffs-office-interior

    Did your products ever show up in DIM? I just made a purchase about 10 minutes ago and none of the purchased products from that lastest order are showing up in DIM for me.

    they've fixed dim

    You may want to audit your Studio library installed content. I thought everything was downloading too, but all is not as it seems. If things were fixed I would have more to download. Just submitted a ticket for what seems like 31 missing products but one item can affect multiple others because it's part of a bundle buy. So 31 is not the true count of products involved. My product library has grown 7 pages this month and unfortunately I had to put the word 'multiple' in the Invoice field of the ticket form, which would not be necessary if the products page still displayed that info.  I simply sent them a screenshot of an example of what was offered (clearly DIM install) but not delivered. I'm hoping for a resolves versus refunds. What good are textures without the outfit itself?

    I suspect it in my case, it is related to the fact that all of my missing products, offered and purchased as DIM install types, surprise-surprise, were populated on the product library page as connect install only. So now instead of shopping I'm auditing DIM and hunting down invoice numbers. 

    yeah I buy soooo much so often not quite every day but nearly I forget most of what I buy or I don't even look at it for a long time probably am missing stuff plus smart content is what I use most but not everything goes thereand again forget what things are called makes hard to find sometimes. Last few weeks had some problems with new stuff missing files, not being where it should and other problems

  • cherpenbeckcherpenbeck Posts: 1,413
    edited September 2020

    I put a ticket about the product library missing information. Got an answer, stating, that DIM would work, now and my request was deemed solved.

    THAT WAS NOT WHAT I WAS ASKING!!!!

    Did not buy anything today, despite being a PC-Member. Did not even put anything in my wishlist.

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  • KeryaKerya Posts: 10,943

    I put a ticket about the product library missing information. Got an answer, stating, that DIM would work, now and my request was deemed solved.

    THAT WAS NOT WHAT I WAS ASKING!!!!

    Did not buy anything today, despite being a PC-Member. Did not even put anything in my wishlist.

     

    Ooops - looks like you got the wrong canned response.

    I am guessing you checked "bad, not satisfied" ????

  • Charlie JudgeCharlie Judge Posts: 12,879
    edited September 2020
    Kerya said:

    A prime example of why we NEED the old Product Library Layout:

    Today there is a new product Predatron Ornamental Trees and Bushes. However, there also was at one time PredPack - Ornamental Trees which I own but has now been discountinued. With no description in the Product Library and no Product page to go to I have NO way of comparing the products to to determine if I want the new one.

     

    Could you send them a ticket with that description?

    The more examples of real use of the information that was on the old pages, the better.

    At the moment I am afraid they might think it's just people resistant to change ...

     Before I had today's example I had already submitted a ticket stating that we need product information for discontinued products and it has been closed. So, I doubt submitting another ticket on the same problem would be wise.

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  • Agree with everything above. I wish they would even keep sale pages of products that are no longer in the store that say “no longer for sale” so we could still see all the promos and info about those products. It seems like all the changes they make to the site just makes things worse. I still hate that rolling banner, it drives me crazy on the iPad! 

    Totally agree.
  • Kerya said:

    I put a ticket about the product library missing information. Got an answer, stating, that DIM would work, now and my request was deemed solved.

    THAT WAS NOT WHAT I WAS ASKING!!!!

    Did not buy anything today, despite being a PC-Member. Did not even put anything in my wishlist.

     

    Ooops - looks like you got the wrong canned response.

    I am guessing you checked "bad, not satisfied" ????

    You bet. Of course I did.
    Well things like a wrong answer can happen. But a vendor not listening to the wishes of his buyers - bad. Very, very bad. First thing you learn, customer ist king. King, not beggar.
    But here I get the impression we are expected to beg for things which should be quite normal. Like giving us information we need for our workflow about the products we buy.

  • I put a ticket about the product library missing information. Got an answer, stating, that DIM would work, now and my request was deemed solved.

    THAT WAS NOT WHAT I WAS ASKING!!!!

    Re-open the ticket by putting text into the box at the bottom of the page, and you'll get a button to add to the post thread. The Support people are generally good, but occasionally something glitches. Answers that aren't crop up now and then; I've had a few where half of the last sentence in my original ticket has been latched on to, and it takes near-physical effort to drag the subject back onto the several paragraphs detailing my actual problem.

  • CybersoxCybersox Posts: 9,082
    Kerya said:

    I put a ticket about the product library missing information. Got an answer, stating, that DIM would work, now and my request was deemed solved.

    THAT WAS NOT WHAT I WAS ASKING!!!!

    Did not buy anything today, despite being a PC-Member. Did not even put anything in my wishlist.

     

    Ooops - looks like you got the wrong canned response.

    I am guessing you checked "bad, not satisfied" ????

    You bet. Of course I did.
    Well things like a wrong answer can happen. But a vendor not listening to the wishes of his buyers - bad. Very, very bad. First thing you learn, customer ist king. King, not beggar.
    But here I get the impression we are expected to beg for things which should be quite normal. Like giving us information we need for our workflow about the products we buy.

    The thing is, DAZ spent a long time being the biggest frog in what was actually a very small pond, especially during the declining years of Poser under Smith Micro, and at that time they could get away with being a little tone deaf.  However, the market has changed again and I don't think they've snapped to it, since  they seem to be chasing chimeras like Morph3d and Gizmoz yet again.  

  • The people that need to be aware of this are aware of this, extra tickets to customer support won't change anything.

     

    As far as I am aware, there are plans to bring back the information that used to be there, but these changes will take time.

  • DAZ_Rawb said:

    The people that need to be aware of this are aware of this, extra tickets to customer support won't change anything.

     

    As far as I am aware, there are plans to bring back the information that used to be there, but these changes will take time.

    Thanks, DAZ_Rawb. That is good news.

  • WonderlandWonderland Posts: 7,027
    DAZ_Rawb said:

    The people that need to be aware of this are aware of this, extra tickets to customer support won't change anything.

     

    As far as I am aware, there are plans to bring back the information that used to be there, but these changes will take time.

    Oops I just put in a ticket. But hopefully they’ll realize how important this is to all their longtime customers and fix it ASAP! 

  • DAZ_Rawb said:

    The people that need to be aware of this are aware of this, extra tickets to customer support won't change anything.

     

    As far as I am aware, there are plans to bring back the information that used to be there, but these changes will take time.

    I really hope that this is the case. One still questions why they ever saw fit to remove it in the first place. It shouldn't be something that needs bringing back, it should never have left.

    Fingers crossed that they actually mean it and follow through.

  • NovicaNovica Posts: 23,905
    DAZ_Rawb said:

    The people that need to be aware of this are aware of this, extra tickets to customer support won't change anything.

     

    As far as I am aware, there are plans to bring back the information that used to be there, but these changes will take time.

    Thanks Rawb!

  • This is good to know. Several times I went to my product page today and forgot that the info was not there

  • ArtAngelArtAngel Posts: 1,783
    edited September 2020

    Edited to get rid of some draft of previous post I made.

    DAZ_Rawb said:

    The people that need to be aware of this are aware of this, extra tickets to customer support won't change anything.

     

    As far as I am aware, there are plans to bring back the information that used to be there, but these changes will take time.

    Thanks. Good news. Do you know if they will populate the DIM Install column for all the items being sold as DIM Install but only available to install via connect?

    Post edited by ArtAngel on
  • xyer0xyer0 Posts: 6,033
    DAZ_Rawb said:

    The people that need to be aware of this are aware of this, extra tickets to customer support won't change anything.

     

    As far as I am aware, there are plans to bring back the information that used to be there, but these changes will take time.

    Thanks for the clarification. Such a simple thing, really.

  • NovicaNovica Posts: 23,905

    @DAZ_Rawb  Is there a way to go to a certain page in the Product Library, or make that happen?  I'm really, really tired of having to click through page, page, page when I need to get really far into the pages in the library. When the library first came out, you could type the page in the url and it would go there. 

    I've asked about how to jump to a certain page, no suggestion seemed to work. Anyone find one that has worked? For instance, jump to page 80. 

  • NorthOf45NorthOf45 Posts: 5,544
    Novica said:

    @ DAZ_Rawb  Is there a way to go to a certain page in the Product Library, or make that happen?  I'm really, really tired of having to click through page, page, page when I need to get really far into the pages in the library. When the library first came out, you could type the page in the url and it would go there. 

    I've asked about how to jump to a certain page, no suggestion seemed to work. Anyone find one that has worked? For instance, jump to page 80. 

    The Product Library page actually loads the info for all your products in one shot. The list on the left is a paginated view that is formatted by the embedded scripts and style sheets. As it is, there is no way to jump to a specific part of the list, because the existing page control doesn't have that ability. There is a surprising amount of data loaded, view source to see what's included (usually accessible from a context menu with a right-click on a blank area of the page).

  • ArtAngel said:

    Edited to get rid of some draft of previous post I made.

    DAZ_Rawb said:

    The people that need to be aware of this are aware of this, extra tickets to customer support won't change anything.

     

    As far as I am aware, there are plans to bring back the information that used to be there, but these changes will take time.

    Thanks. Good news. Do you know if they will populate the DIM Install column for all the items being sold as DIM Install but only available to install via connect?

    There shouldn't be anything in the store that is Daz Connect only and if you mean DazCentral only there shouldn't be anything like that either. If the product page says that it is DazCentral only, that is a bug in the current store software.

  • TorquinoxTorquinox Posts: 3,590

    Thanks @DAZ_Rawb

  • CybersoxCybersox Posts: 9,082
    Novica said:

    @DAZ_Rawb  Is there a way to go to a certain page in the Product Library, or make that happen?  I'm really, really tired of having to click through page, page, page when I need to get really far into the pages in the library. When the library first came out, you could type the page in the url and it would go there. 

    I've asked about how to jump to a certain page, no suggestion seemed to work. Anyone find one that has worked? For instance, jump to page 80. 

    Oh great, I hadn't even caught this yet.  The url trick worked for me until recently, but I just checked and it doesn't work anymore and I've got 637 catalog pages of product.  >-<  I just can't wait to find out what other funtionality they've managed to break for the sake of a freaking ad.   

  • xyer0xyer0 Posts: 6,033

    I'd really like to be able to search my Product Library using the same search categories/parameters available for the store, since I own lots of removed products.

  • manekiNekomanekiNeko Posts: 1,414
    edited September 2020

    i just wrote a new thread not knowing about this one.. now i edited my post and here it is:

    i'm not sure if it's just me, but i could have sworn that until not so long ago, when i looked at a purchased product in my product library, there was also the date of the order/purchase... because i'm not going thru +10 years of orders individually to check a date for a single product... and i know i can check this on DIM (or probably on daz central, which i have ABSOLUTELY NO INTEREST IN DOWNLOADING/USING), but DIM takes eons to load and i want to do this from here, from my library since i already have my browser open and i'm browsing thru the daz site...

    so, if it's just me remembering things that never existed, please someone tell me so. it happens from time to time...

    and if the lack of date is a new "feature" of the remodeling of the site, PLEASE TAKE IT AWAY respectively BRING THE DATE BACK. i don't want to be dependent on/pushed to use other apps like DIM or daz central for something that was perfect in my library!

    don't push people to adopt a feature (daz central) that they don't want by removing essential functions and features from other places! and if luckily, as i could read above, the bringing back of the old infos seems to be a planned step, well then make it a priority instead of wasting time on other things - i don't know why it was taken away in the first place.

    excuse my harsh tone, i'm just so sick of those "sites remodelings" (yeah DA and also livejournal, i'm looking at you) where good features are taken away making everyone annoyed, and then other "super" features nobody or at least not the majority wants are added...

     

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  • nicsttnicstt Posts: 11,715
    edited September 2020
    Sevrin said:

    I don't get why Daz keeps doubling down on Daz Central.   Whenever I would need to report an issue, I'd check my Product Library, and there used to be useful information at the top of the page where that HUGE blurb is pushing something no one wants or needs.

    This just adds to my suspicion that there's more to Daz Central than just a pretty interface that lacks functionality, and that Daz is gaslighting us.

    I see you're a fellow paranoic.

    If you only comment here on the forums, DAZ won't get your feedback. Everyone should turn in tickets.


    I have, more than once.

    Post edited by nicstt on
  • nicsttnicstt Posts: 11,715
    edited September 2020

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    Taoz said:

    If you only comment here on the forums, DAZ won't get your feedback. Everyone should turn in tickets.

    Which is so troublesome that hardly anyone care to bother.  

    It isn't as annoying as it used to be.

     

    DAZ, you're killing me...  All the information in my product library disappears yesterday, I come here today and find out these changes were actually on purpose?  Why on earth would anyone want LESS information on the products they purchased?  Why would you spend time and energy to actively take it away?

    We need MORE information on the Product Library pages, not less.  I've got thousands of products to keep straight and the Product Library page is the only way to do that.  And no, a link to the store page is not "good enough."  Aside from the scores of extra clicks and browser tabs that means every day, a lot of the older stuff that's the hardest to keep track of isn't in the store anymore, so that information is now gone. The store changes all the time. It’s not a database of the things I’ve PAID for.

    Also, I need the date ordered and a link to the invoice to open support tickets for purchases and tech support.  There's no other way to find this out without looking manually through all the orders.  I need the sku number to find the product on the Product Index page. There’s so many things. You have this data. Why not keep it all in one place, in the Product Library for your paying customers?

    Sorry for being so angry about this but it makes the difficult task of keeping track of everything exponentially harder.

     


    I find it worry when long-term users such as yourself, who rarely post, come to add their disgust on what is happening.

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  • nicsttnicstt Posts: 11,715

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    Sempie said:
    Nath said:

    Vue files are also under DAZ studio and smalll print Vue underneath.

    And some files, like V3, you can only download and unzip to find out what it is, no extra information.

     

    Older generic installers now appear to be DAZ Studio only. It's all rather confusing, prefer the old way.  We all cried out for reliable store software, with less hickups during sales, not for a new fuzzy layout.

    An official post iirc stated that Daz Central was for new users who had trouble with DIM; pretty much the same excuse as the DRM abomination of 4.9 (sorry I mean Encrypted Daz Connect). Please note my disclaimer below.

     

     

    L'Adair said:
    Novica said:

    I'm also downloading all of my purchases here for later use with backed up DIM in case Daz decides to force Central on us once and for all. It's a slow and tedious process doing it manually even with a modest (58 page) library, and Daz is sending everything incredibly slowly. 

    I hear ya. My external hard drive broke (my fault, knocked it off the table) and I have been downloading all my products from the very beginning, doing it since the beginning of last month.   I have the same concerns about the future of DIM (And obviously, going to do Cloud storage too.)  It's apparent they are shoving DazCentral down our throats.

    So I'm sending my ticket to Tech Support.  For the "Tech Ticket Tracker" I chose "Locate Product."  Edit- According to Richard's post, below. If you have to do the Captcha thing, you aren't signed in. (Go to top right and Sign In.) 

    And here's an easy copy/paste or to-get-you-started that you can use or modify. Please, everyone send a ticket!!

    I filed a ticket under Technical Support and, FWIW, I specified "Website Issue" for the Tech Ticket Tracker.

    I download all my purchases—regardless of where I purchase from—to this computer on an external drive. I also store those files on an internal drive of my render machine. The idea of depending on a company's website to store items I've paid for has never seemed like a good idea to me. (Yeah, that includes cloud storage.)

    Another fellow paranoic; there seem to be a couple in this thread. laugh

     

     

    Just submitted my complaint. If DAZ doesn't change that information back, my current store credits will be the last money I spent on DAZ content. That's not a threat, that's a statement.'

    I have $300 in credit, and it's been as high as $1000; I've passed on two good (one espicially so) discounts the last week or so; when you consider that the exchange rate is the best it's been for two years, this should worry Daz at least a little. I'm 'sure' I'm not alone. I have no idea if they could offer enough discount at the moment to encourage me to buy more credit. I suppose 80 and 90% off might tempt me but I'm safe as that wont happen: lower - no not buying the coolaid; I don't like the current flavour.

    Cybersox said:
    Torquinox said:

    Even without destroying the library info pages, we're already getting spammed with dazCentral text all over the site. You would think they're afraid we haven't noticed it. They have to know a whole lot of us did notice, and we actively don't want it.

    With as fast as marketing and web people tend to turn over, it's entirely possible that there's no one there who remembers the disaster that was the DAZ Connect rollout and therefore can't understand why anyone wouldn't want it.  But yeah, putting an ad on every single product library page does reek of overkill.

     

    It wasn't so much Daz Connect that was the debarcle, although I didn't like the store's integration into Studio, but the Encrypted Daz Connect (which hasn't gone away, but merely not yet used).

     

    Well, Renderosity will profit from DAZ´ stupid decision. If I can't find information about things, I will not buy said things. It's as simple as that.

    It already has. I spent $20 on Monday; I have store credit here but felt happier spending there.

    That ticket I submitted a few days ago is still open.  Still waiting on those 'Feed the Bundle Ice Cream/Dinner' bundle items.

    I sent my ticket to Sales Support of course, and the ticket also mentions my issue with the Product Library changes as I detailed before.

    So not even a canned response on my end yet, let alone a resolution of my issue.  This does not instill confidence, just sayin...

     

    I am hoping that Daz management is at least having a discussion about the wave of 'I'm not happy with the changes' tickets.  An official response would be nice, that is more than just the 'we've passed your concerns along'. response.  I'd like to know that Daz3D takes the concerns of it's customers seriously, and is interested in keeping their customer base happy, and isn't just taking us for granted.

     

    The next step, as mentioned by others, if Daz3D is determined to continue down this path is to buy less here, which will impact the bottom line, but I am hoping that is will not come to that.  I'm not sure how many people would actually participate in that move, product boycotts in general don't seem to have a lot of impact.  I still have a fair bit of store credit banked, in anticipation of the PC+ anniversary, but once that store credit runs out, that's when I'll have to put up or shut up show to speak. 

    I do hope that the PA's are screaming bloody murder behind the scenes right now.  We like buying stuff from you talented PA's, and a lot of us don't take the 'curtail our purchases in the future' statements lightly when we make them.

    The other issues that people have reported in the last week are concerning as well.  I'm not using DIM to connect these days, I'm doing manual downloads, and the 'Littlefox + Arki + other stuff' order I placed yesterday seems to have manual download links at least, for the couple of Star! products I did download to test with G3F.  I'll probably download the rest of that order today or tomorrow, when I hit a suitable lull in my current art project.

    So yeah, hopeful that this isn't falling on deaf ears and that the Daz management team will discuss this seriously at the office or via facetime or whatever this week, but we'll see.

    They pay more attention to a drop in sales. A truly effective method is wallet-communication.

    A prime example of why we NEED the old Product Library Layout:

    Today there is a new product Predatron Ornamental Trees and Bushes. However, there also was at one time PredPack - Ornamental Trees which I own but has now been discountinued. With no description in the Product Library and no Product page to go to I have NO way of comparing the products to to determine if I want the new one.

    I don't suppose they would have an issue with you re-purchasing it. All we can do in this instance is speculate, and it's human nature for there to be both a lack of trust (or at least doubt) and a certain amount of suspicion.

  • Less information on the page is NEVER a good thing.

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