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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