Cool VL Viewer gets Merchant Outbox

Posted on by Inara Pey

The Cool VL viewer becomes the first V1-style SL Viewer to gain the Merchant Outbox for Direct Delivery. The new capability comes with release 1.26.4.7 (.7b for Linux due to a repackaging issue), released on April 5th.

The implementation is slightly different to Outbox support found on V3-based Viewers, as the notes accompanying the release specify. In particular:

  • There is no support for the Beta grid (Aditi) or the Beta Marketplace
  • The Outbox is implemented as a folder within Inventory, rather than as a separate floater
  • There is (currently?) no right-click->Copy to Merchant Outbox capability for items / folders, as seen in V3-based Viewers with Outbox functionality.
Coll VL Viewer: Merchant Outbox folder

To use the Outbox, simply drag and drop folders / items to be transferred to your SL Marketplace store to the Merchant Outbox folder. Or if you prefer, COPY and PASTE them.

  • If you are dragging one or more folders, a copy of each folder will be made in the Outbox folder with the same name as the original
  • If you are copying one or more objects into the Outbox folder, each object will be placed in a folder bearing the object’s name (same functionality as V3-based Merchant Outboxes)
  • To send items to the Marketplace, right-click on the Outbox folder and select SEND TO MARKETPLACE. A pop-up will be displayed in the bottom right-hand corner of the Viewer window upon successfully transfer (and will also note any issues encountered).

As is to be expected, all other constraints (number of items, nested folder levels, etc.) are the same within Cool Viewer and for other Outbox-capable Viewers (as these are LL-imposed contraints).

In testing the capability, I found it functioned smoothly and without any incident: all items dropped into the Outbox folder arrived safely (and suitably “foldered” themselves, where required), and the upload handled multiple items and nested folders without incident.

If there are merchants who have been waiting for a V1-style Viewer to implement Merchant Outbox support prior to committing themselves to Direct Delivery (and allowing for current Marketplace issues), then Cool VL Viewer now provides the answer.

Published by Inara Pey

Eclectic virtual world blogger with a focus on Second Life, VR, virtual environments and technology.

4 thoughts on “Cool VL Viewer gets Merchant Outbox”

    1. If you are referring to the current release as detailed on the Singularity blog and download page (1.6.3), the folder is non-functional as it has no option to upload contents to the Marketplace.

      Singularlity Merchant Outbox folder

      In this, Singularity 1.6.3 is the same as Phoenix 1.6.1.1691, in that the folder has likely been created as a result of the server-side push resulting from the implementation of Direct Delivery, and code still needs to be added to the client itself to make it operational.

      Of course, if you’re using a later version of Singularity than 1.6.3, I’d be interested to know more, as even the source code repository isn’t showing any major updates in some two months…

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