Heroscape Helper - Collection and Army Management (beta)

[Myriadite]

Amazing!

 

[IshMEL]

This is great! The UI is very intuitive.
One suggestion: when building an army it would be helpful to have an “add to army” from the Unit’s info page. For example if I have Unit A in my army, then look at the army and click on Unit A, it will show me the synergies. Great, I want to include Unit B! When I click on Unit B I see all the information but can’t add it to the army from there — I’ve been going back to the main menu and doing a name search to bring them up. I hope that makes sense. It’s not a big deal, but I thought I would make the suggestion!

 

[rmac]

This is great! The UI is very intuitive.
One suggestion: when building an army it would be helpful to have an “add to army” from the Unit’s info page. For example if I have Unit A in my army, then look at the army and click on Unit A, it will show me the synergies. Great, I want to include Unit B! When I click on Unit B I see all the information but can’t add it to the army from there — I’ve been going back to the main menu and doing a name search to bring them up. I hope that makes sense. It’s not a big deal, but I thought I would make the suggestion!

Thanks IshMEL!
And great suggestion! I was actually finding myself wishing for this feature the other day, as well. I'll add it to my list of improvements.

 

[rmac]

Hi everyone, hope you're having a good Friday (or a good 4th if you're in the US). I'm rolling out a few new improvements to the management of armies. If you're signed in and head to your armies page you'll notice a slight change to the interface:

You can now create folders to help you organize your armies! Folders can be created with the little icon in the sidebar (or the button on mobile). Folders can be rearranged by dragging and moving them within the sidebar, or dropping them on top of existing folders to nest them (pretty standard file explorer stuff). Click on a folder here to navigate into it.

You will also see the folders that exist in the currently viewed directory at the top of the page, for easy access. These can also be clicked for navigation, and serve as drop targets for armies.

To that end, you can also drag and drop your armies into folders in either the sidebar or the list at the top of the page, using the little six-dot handles on the top left of the army card as the anchor by which you move them. Hint: you can also right-click an army (or use the horizontal three-dot indicator) to open a context menu that allows you to edit/move/delete the army.

That's about it for the army management. If you have suggestions for improvements to this interface, or have ideas for additional features, let me know!

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Also, I have added the concept of "favoriting" armies. From the community armies page, you'll notice that each army card has a little heart icon in the upper right. If you click or tap, you will save that army as a favorite.

You can filter for armies you have favorited in the updated army sidebar.

I've also added slight improvements to the sidebar here, adding numeric input fields to all the sliders so you can enter your exact values rather than futzing with a little on-screen nub. There was a bit of faulty filtering logic going on here as well that is boring to talk about, but has been corrected.

A few other behind-the-scenes change have been made. I also added the ability for a logged-in user to create an "anonymous" army, meaning that the army will not be saved to your account but will be "saved" as a shareable URL only. You will see the option when you go to save an army you're creating.

Next up, I'll be working to add a few more improvements to the army-building experience (better synergy suggestion, "remixing" of existing armies, and other various enhancements). Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

 

[rmac]

This is great! The UI is very intuitive.
One suggestion: when building an army it would be helpful to have an “add to army” from the Unit’s info page. For example if I have Unit A in my army, then look at the army and click on Unit A, it will show me the synergies. Great, I want to include Unit B! When I click on Unit B I see all the information but can’t add it to the army from there — I’ve been going back to the main menu and doing a name search to bring them up. I hope that makes sense. It’s not a big deal, but I thought I would make the suggestion!

@IshMEL , I also introduced the ability to add/remove army units from the unit info dialog:

I also updated this view to put a little border around the point system you currently have selected, so you know how many points it's going to be. Hope that works for you! If you've got other ideas keep them coming

 

[IshMEL]

Quick question, how do the custom fields for your collection work? I've added custom fields for "Proxy" and "Missing Card" but can't seem to find where I can toggle those.

 

[rmac]

Quick question, how do the custom fields for your collection work? I've added custom fields for "Proxy" and "Missing Card" but can't seem to find where I can toggle those.

When you go to your account collection page, you'll see the Display Fields input in the upper left:

When you click/tap this, you'll see a list of all the custom fields you create, and you can click/tap each to add that to the view of each card (or table row). Then, when you toggle "Edit Mode", you will be able to write and save values from the inputs that appear at the bottom of each card/end of each table row.
I probably should label that toggle thing as "Display Custom Fields" or put a little tool-tip there.

 

[IshMEL]

Ah, that makes sense! Thanks.