PTS Update 46 - Feedback Thread for Housing UI ‘Retrieve To’ Functionality

ZOS_Kevin · April 14

This is the official feedback thread for the new Housing UI ‘Retrieve To’ Functionality. This feature will allow you to indicate where you would like furnishings to be sent when they are being retrieved, be it to your Inventory, a Storage Coffer, the Bank, or even the new Furnishing Vault. Specific feedback that the team is looking for includes the following:

Were you able to find the location in the UI where you can change your ‘retrieve to’ settings?
Did you test the variety of locations that you could ‘retrieve to’? Inventory, storage chests, Furnishing Vault, etc.
Did this feature function as expected?

MoonPile · April 15

This is a fantastic QOL feature, grateful for this, thanks! Managing inventory while building was a nuisance and this is helpful.

Were you able to find the location in the UI where you can change your ‘retrieve to’ settings?

It's a bit TOO obvious; wished I could move the UI element.

Have not tested more deeply yet but it appears to function as expected so far.

EDIT 3: BUG
"...could not be put into your bag because it is full" but 1. I'm retrieving to bank and that's far from full 2. My bag is also not full and I can retrieve it to the bag just fine.

EDIT 2:
1. I wish the Retrieve To menu was accessible when placing furnishings.
Use case: I have 3 items in my inventory that I want to place in a storage. It'd be easy to place them, set Retrieve To (RT) to the correct box, and then Undo to store them. But currently, the RT dropdown menu isn't readily accessible when placing. I'd prefer NOT to have to find things within the Retrieve UI because it can be hard to figure out which is the right one if you have dozens of the same item placed (related problem: https://moonpile.tumblr.com/post/774590743855644672/tab-tab-tab-tab-tab-eso-housing-uiux)

2. If you change the RT dropdown to a storage & undo placement, the furnishings don't go where expected.
If I go into the F5-R menu to set the RT dropdown to the box I want, the things I just placed from my inventory don't go into that box – they go back in my inventory.

EDIT:
One request: It would be VERY helpful if item locations were visible by default in the Housing Menu / Retrieve – and across all tooltips in all menus!

In inventory UI, I can see where I have more of an item via the item's tooltip. (E.g. 21 of Tree, Yellowing Oak in House Bank 5 – etc.) IIRC this functionality is from an addon. Screenshot:

The Housing Menu does not show this:

So currently, I don't know which chest I already have tree/plant/whatever stacks, and have to first retrieve it to my inventory to look, then put it back, then Retrieve To the correct storage area. Showing item locations in all tooltips across menus would help a ton.

In fact, I see that the Furnishing Vault has its own icon, as does the bank. It's storage chests that are really the problem since their icons are all the same, so this could be helped easily and cleanly by adding the chest's number to its icon – or something like that.

Thanks again for the QOL features!

JHartEllis · April 15

Loved the addition of this feature! Great functional surprise.

Tested it quite a bit and found it working well.

A bit of a problem is that when you go to Edit a furnishing directly, it has the option to Put Away, but you can't see at that point where it's going. It should display your chosen Retrieve To destination whenever you select a furnishing.

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I was a bit surprised the Home Storage Chests/Coffers were options for this feature since they are relatively so small. I think it would be worth revisiting the storage limits on these. For example, you could double the limits as an ESO Plus perk to make them more usable.