Overview
ProfessionsBook keeps track of all known trade items your characters can craft/enchant. You can easily select each character and browse the known recipes and view the needed reagents to craft that item.
Additionally recipes in the auction house are color coded:
- red = no character may learn that recipe
- green = at least one of your characters may learn the recipe
- blue = one character has learned the recipe already
- yellow = a character has the tradeskill but not the appropriate skill level
The tooltip for recipes is enhanced by two lines displaying the characters who already know the recipe and characters who may learn it.
If you have ProfessionsFu or TitanProfessions installed (recommended) you can easily open ProfessionsBook via ProessionsFu's or TitanProfessions' menu.
Features
- Scan all professions of a character and store them
- Browse stored professions of all characters
- View required reagents for a selected trade skill
- Post required reagents to a channel.
- Color code recipes in the auction house
- Display characters knowing or be able to learn a certain recipe in the tooltip
Usage
Before using ProfessionsBook all professions windows (e.g. Enchanting, Smithing...) must be opened to enable the scan of all known recipes.
Open ProfessionsBook:
- Slash command: /pb show or /professionsbook show
- Open via ProfessionsFu
- Open via key binding
Select the character whose trade skill you want to view. Select a tradeskill below and browse the known recipes to the left. Additional filters can be applied.
The button "send" posts the required reagents of the currently selected trade item to the channel selected in the drop down box next to the button. If you want to whisper the reagents to an other player you will be prompted to enter his/her name. Support for numbered channels (e.g. "Trade"...) will be added in a later release.
Open the options dialog to change visibility and position of the minimap button. That button is invisible by default. The features to enhance the tooltips and color coding of recipes in the auction house may also be enabled/disabled in this dialog.
The option dialog lets you delete the ProfessionsBook data from your characters of the current server and faction (e.g. "ServerXY - Alliance"). This comes in handy if a character of yours has dropped a profession and learned an other one. After using that option you need to scan all professions of your characters on that server and faction.
The search function accepts strings and substrings which are case insensitive. Searching for 'nether' will display all recipes containing 'nether' in their titles (e.g. 'Heavy Netherweave Bandage').
Installation
- Copy the 'ProfessionsBook' directory to your "WoW/Interface/AddOns" folder.
- If you are upgrading from a version previous to 2.0.0 or 2.0.0 Beta you need to delete the folder "ProfessionsBook" in "WoW/Interface/AddOns" and "Professions.lua" in your "WTF/Account/<AccountName>/SavedVariables/"-folder.
Known bugs and limitations
- It may happen that when opening a trade skill window, not all recipes are scanned. If such a case occurs, please reopen the trade skill window again to performe an automatic rescan of the recipes.
- Only characters of the same realm and faction are selectable. In a future release I will add support for selecting characters from the opposite faction.
- Books to increase your maximum level of a tradeskill (e.g. Cooking 225) are not color coded in auction house. These books are not part of the recipe book itself and are not scanned.
- Color coding and enhanced tooltips do not work in the french version correctly.
- When using color coding in combination with Auctioneer Advanced the colors do not reflect the new order of items when the default sorting is changed.
- Due to a bug in AuctionFilterPlus the color coding does not refelct the true order in the auction house. The tooltips are correct, however.
- You may experience a lag (from several seconds up to a minute) after the cache of WoW has been cleared (e.g. after a new WoW-Patch, etc.). This will happen only a few times when opening a trade skill window. As soon as the cache of WoW is filled with the recipes, there will be no more lags until the cache has been cleared again.
Credits
- Blackdove (author of Book of Crafts, http://www.curse.com/downloads/details/1014/) for kindly supporting the contents of PB_Exceptions.lua.
- Korean translation: Eerien, Aresda of Garona
ProfessionsBook:
- Fixed coloring for difficulty level (Thanks to Lokmar)
- New list of recipe exceptions (Thanks again to Blackdove)
Installation Guide
- Exit "World of Warcraft" completely
- Download the mod you want to install
- Make a folder on your desktop called "My Mods"
- Save the .zip/.rar files to this folder.
- If, when you try to download the file, it automatically "opens" it... you need to RIGHT click on the link and "save as..." or "Save Target As".
- Extract the file - commonly known as 'unzipping'
Do this ONE FILE AT A TIME!
- Windows
- Windows XP has a built in ZIP extractor. Double click on the file to open it, inside should be the file or folders needed. Copy these outside to the "My Mods" folder.
- WinRAR: Right click the file, select "Extract Here"
- WinZip: You MUST make sure the option to "Use Folder Names" is CHECKED or it will just extract the files and not make the proper folders how the Authors designed
- Mac Users
- StuffitExpander: Double click the archive to extract it to a folder in the current directory.
- Verify your WoW Installation Path
That is where you are running WoW from and THAT is where you need to install your mods.
- Move to the Addon folder
- Open your World of Warcraft folder. (default is C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\)
- Go into the "Interface" folder.
- Go into the "AddOns" folder.
- In a new window, open the "My Mods" folder.
- The "My Mods" folder should have the "Addonname" folder in it.
- Move the "Addonname" folder into the "AddOns" folder
- Start World of Warcraft
- Make sure AddOns are installed
- Log in
- At the Character Select screen, look in lower left corner for the "addons" button.
- If button is there: make sure all the mods you installed are listed and make sure "load out of date addons" is checked.
- If the button is NOT there: means you did not install the addons properly. Look at the above screenshots. Try repeating the steps or getting someone who knows more about computers than you do to help.
Translations
When you download a mod, please be sure that the mod is compatible with your translation of wow. Some mods only work on the US versions, while some only work on some of the various European versions. These variations are called "Localizations".
TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)
When Blizzard patches WoW, they change the Interface number. This means that all mods will be "out of date" unless or until the author releases a new version for that interface. Some people go into the .toc files and update the numbers themselves, but this is STRONGLY advised against as it will cause problems locating possible incompatibilities addons. When you log into WoW after a patch, you DO NOT have to delete your interface directory. All you have to do is simply tell WoW to ignore the interface numbers and load all the mods anyway. All you have to do is, while at the "character select" screen, look in the lower left corner and click on the "addons" button. A window will pop up listing all your installed mods.
If you look in the upper left corner of that window there should be a box that says "Load Out of Date AddOns". You want to CHECK this box. Now simply go into WoW normally and all your mods should load. As of the 1.9 patch, you will have to do this after EVERY patch/update that Blizzard posts! If you encounter any problems with a mod after a patch, please be sure to let the author of the mod know so they can fix it.
See also: About "Out Of Date AddOns"
Mac Support
WoW addons are not platformed based. As such, they can be used on either Mac or PC. You can extract both .zip and .rar files on a Mac using StuffitExpander.
Directory Structure
World of Warcraft
|_ Interface
|_AddOns
|_*AddonName*
|_ *AddonName*.toc
|_ *AddonName*.xml
|_ *AddonName*.lua
|_ (possibly others as well)...