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Recently I've been going over my collection and wishlists to make things accurate. Because I want my wishlist to reflect that I want graded cards I have to use the "Detailed Add" feature because if I use the regular "Add/Update" or even the "Add/Update Wantlist" feature it doesn't allow me to select any variables including the "Yes/No" feature for Graded, or the "Grader" variable.

So in order for me to add a PSA graded card to my wantlist I had to go:

(Already in "Add/Update Wantlist" from the set's "Collection Summary")
1 -Left click drop down box
2 -Right click "Detailed Add"
3 -Left click "Open link in new tab" (for each of the cards desired having multiple tabs)
4 -Navigate to desired "Detailed Add" tab
5 -Navigate to "Add to"
6 -Left click drop down
7 -Left click "Wantlist"
8 -Navigate to "Graded"
9 -Left click drop down
10 -Left click "Y"
11 -Navigate to "Grader"
12 -Left click drop down
13 -Move mouse cursor in selection
14 -Middle mounse scroll wheel find "PSA"
15 -Left click "PSA"
16 -Navigate to "Add" button
17 -Left click "Add"

That's a lot of steps to add 1 card. Considering I'm doing it with all HoF/notableRCs per Topps/Chrome/Archives/Heritage set it has taken me a long time so far and I've done it from 1983-2001 so far like that.

BUT..... I finally have had enough of that lol

After some testing with scripting I've come up with a solution.
After taking Step 4, all I have to do is hit my hotkey (which is Shift+Printscreen) and it finds "Add to" in the page and hits the correct number of "Tab" keys and "Down Arrow" keys to select exactly what I want and then clicks "Add" at the end.

If anyone else is interested in the simple script I've included it below. You do need AutoHotKey to run it, but it would make your job a lot easier in using the "Detailed Add" feature if you have variables you feel you need to have for your Collection/ForSaleTrade/Wantlists. I found you can't just use the TAB feature to navigate, as different banner ads on the top of the page require a different number of keypresses to navigate where you need so I had to use the Control+F find command, then escape out, and then have the script tab and arrow down from there.
 

TCDB to get to Browse with tab presses (waiting for page to fully load):

Chevron Ad: 3
Dodge Ram Ad: 3
Century Link Ad: 3
Fry's Ad: 4
Jason's Deli Ad: 5
New Orleans Ad: 5
University of Colorado Ad: 5

AutoHotKey script (can be edited for your needs)
Mine selects "Wantlist" / "Yes" for Graded / "PSA" for Grader:

-----START SCRIPT-----
^printscreen::
send, ^f
sleep, 200
send, Add To:
sleep, 200
send, {Esc}
sleep, 200
send, {tab}
sleep, 200
send, {down 2}
sleep, 200
send, {tab 4}
sleep, 200
send, {down}
sleep, 200
send, {tab}
sleep, 200
send, {down 22}
sleep, 200
send, {tab 4}
sleep, 200
send, {Enter}
-----END SCRIPT-----

The "sleep" commands are pauses to ensure things work properly with the browser and is set in milliseconds



Hope this can be useful to someone else.



 

I've thought of something like that prior to changes made to the site that make it easier to add generically to lists, but is that the same as a macro? 

It's a macro yeah. It's just a series of keyboard presses. AutoHotKey allows you to set various macros under a keyboard command of your choosing. I used Ctrl + PrntScn for mine.