Exporting a list of haves/swaps/wants from SWDestinyDB

This post is basically only relevant if you use SWDestinyDB to keep track of your Star Wars: Destiny cards, and you’re an iOS user. If you fit that bill, welcome! If you don’t, this post will be either boring, bewildering or both, I’m afraid.

Workflow is an app for iOS that lets you automate certain actions. It’s one of the foundational aspects of the iOS 12 feature Siri Shortcuts, so the workflow for Workflow which I outline here should also work in Shortcuts¹. Federico Viticci has written both an excellent guide to getting started with Workflow and a sneak preview of the new Shortcuts app if you’re not familiar with how they work and want to read more.

I recently decided to write a workflow to easily export lists of my Star Wars: Destiny swaps or wants. I’ve written about the Workflow app before but I’ve recently started using it for more and more complex things, which has encouraged me to embark on this particular project. SWDestinyDB is really great for keeping track of the cards you own, and for building decks, but it’s completely lacking any feature to export a list of swaps or wants, which is annoying given that this is a relatively frequent thing to want to do.

So, how does my workflow work?

1. Install the workflow by tapping here on your iOS device.
2. Go to SWDestinyDB.
3. Filter for the list of swaps or wants that you want to post.²
4. Hit the share icon, select ‘Run Workflow’, and select ‘Copy Destiny Cards’.
5. Choose whether you want a list of your swaps or wants and how many cards are in a playset (see Caveats below).
6. An alert will pop up to let you know the list is on your clipboard.
7. Paste the list wherever you want!

I find this super useful for quickly and easily posting lists of my swaps and needs on my local meta’s Facebook group so that people can sort me out for uncommons/rares that I have managed to avoid getting. I hope you find it useful too!

Caveats

1. I use Safari, and I don’t know whether this workflow will work in Chrome or anything else. If you use Chrome, and this workflow needs tweaking to make it work, let me know and I’ll update this post.
2. The workflow assumes that you need the same number of cards for a complete playset of each card. Therefore, you should generate lists of battlefields/plots separately to lists of other types of card. It also means that if you want five Jawas, or four copies of the new TIE Fighter card in Across the Galaxy, this workflow won’t handle that well. It’s possible that I’ll update this to handle those sorts of things automatically in future, but for now they’ll need editing manually.