[Feature request] Factory overview page

[Septiple]

This may be too big of a feature, but it would be immensely useful for how I use YAFC. I'm currently doing a Pyanodon run, and I'm designing parts of my factory in separate production sheets. For example, there's one for iron production, one for copper, etc. What I find hard to do in YAFC right now is that I manually have to go through the iron requirements for each tab, add them together and then set that as a target in my iron production sheet.

What I think would help me is a 'factory overview page'. It would simply be a list of all the production sheets, showing the inputs and outputs, just like the recipes in the normal sheets. At the top, you could make a netted sum of all inputs and outputs of the factory, so it would add all the iron production together and subtract all the iron usages, and then either list it as an output if the sum is positive or as an input if the sum is negative.

This page wouldn't need any of the fancy linking, optimizing or nesting present in the production sheets, just a (readonly) list of the recipes and the grand total would be fine. The only thing that would be cool is if you could change just the quantities of the targets of a production sheet without going to that production sheet, so I can increase or decrease the iron production as I see fit on the overview page without having to go to the iron production sheet (and that it would re-optimize my iron production sheet, so I see how the inputs change on the overview page). It may also be nice if you could 'disable/hide' production sheets for just the factory overview page, so you can have experimental/unfinished tabs without them affecting the grand total overview of your factory.

Thanks again for making this program!

[ShadowTheAge]

This is actually in the plans, codename "meta production sheet", but the development is now very slow unfortunately.

[Septiple]

Ah, like that, no worries. Do you have an overview of your plans somewhere, or shall I leave this issue open as a record of the idea?

[ShadowTheAge]

Let the issue be open, this way I'll notify when something is done

[veger]

I would really appreciate this feature as well 👍

I tried putting all recipes (nested) in a single sheet, so they can be linked, but it is not really my style of working.
An overview page where it is possible to edit the outputs of the sheets (sub factories), would be perfect!

[veger]

Looked like I really needed this feature... 😛

I made a Release in my fork, i ncase anyone else really requires this feature 😉
(note that I will remove these releases when the PR is merged and released in the official repo/here)