Since patch v4.9.6: "Added check when changing the craft value method that it doesn’t include “crafting”."
And patch v4.9.20: "Added validation that the craft value within a Crafting operation does not reference the crafting price source".

Using 'crafting' in custom sources was very useful for creating and using stats like:
- raw profit
- the profit in percents
- profit per day
etc.

Some of these can be seen in the UI, but having them as sources is so useful in making coefficients to determine if I want an item crafted or not.

For example, I want to craft an item if it yelds a profit of 200g per day, while having the profit be at least 20% of the crafting cost.

I'd want a custom source for the absolute sale price:
abs: first(min(dbminbuyout,dbmarket),dbregionmarketavg)

Then I can use it to get the profit:
profit: abs - crafting

Then the profit per day(using the region source):
profitDaily: profit * dbregionsoldperday

Now we want the profit percent(range 0 to 1):
percent: profit/crafting

Finally, if it respects the specified conditions, this source will output the daily profit, otherwise 0c:
twoHundredPerDay: ifgte(percent, 0.2, ifgte(profitDaily, 200g, profitDaily, 0c), 0c)

Setting the default craft value to this source used to display it in the profession UI, letting me know if I should craft it or not. And none of this can be done without using the crafting source.

Complex operations like these used to be possible(and very useful) before the changes.
Unless it causes instability or bugs, I dont see why the 'crafting' source should not be allowed in crafting operations and in the default craft value method.

Thank you.

Can we get an ROI column on the Crafting Pages? While knowing profit is great, there is a major difference in making a 1000g profit on an item that takes 8000g to craft, and a 500g profit on an item that costs 50g to craft.

While you might make a thousand gold profit on a big item, if you could make 3 items with the same mats that make 500g, you'd net more profit, and that's not reflected at all on the Crafting page.

If not specifically ROI, perhaps add functionality to have a column that's custom so you could have ROI, and someone could add a column for ROI times Time spent in Invetory, as it's not just about how much profit you make, but how much profit you make in time. For example, an item making you 1000g profit but with a rating of 0.01 means you'll sell it in about 3 months, meanwhile those resources are being tied up. As compared to an item with 50g profit, even with the same materials cost, but a sell rate of 0.34, and you're making more 50% more profit.

These financial calculations will allow for better processing of how best to invest your gold.

Problem: It is not always clear which craft is required from the name of the end product. This makes it a little more difficult to craft multiple of an item

Example: enchanting gathering requires 50 leylight shards

In the TSM Task List > Gathering > Enchanting Crafts shows a material to craft ("Leylight Shard (50)). Clicking the craft button casts the required spell (Chaos Shatter) to make the mat.(you then see the craft name in the cast bar only when crafting the item)

searching leylight shard in the craft UI does not show this spell, and i need to manually click craft to catch the spell name first, then search that.

Desired solution:
indicate the craft name in the gathering UI.
this means i can quickly search a craft name, set the desired quantity, and craft

This was listed as "implemented in 2.1" back in 2013 but it does not currently work in TSM classic.

While you are able to click the TSM button to view the "default looking" window and the TSM crafting window, addons like Skillet that hook to the default window cannot find it as TSM is still editing it when it's set to look like default. I love every other portion of TSM, but the crafting portion I am not interested in using and I'd hate to have to disable it entirely just to craft something when that happens quite frequently.

Thank you

I've often wanted the ability to craft the item I have the least of first when doing a crafting restock, due to limited resources.

This is especially applicable to crafting enchants - I have my crafting operation set to restock to 20, 40 or even 60 depending on how quickly they've been selling. But if they've been selling constantly for a while, I don't always have the mats to cover crafting the majority of 60x8 enchants. So having the option to have "craft next" craft the enchant I only have 10 in stock of vs crafting the enchant I already have 50 of would be nice.

I could of course change the crafting operation but that's more work, not less. And for item's other than enchants (where crafting one by one would increase the number of clicks required by a lot) it could be done by percentages - craft the lowest quantity items up all to 25% (or whatever) of restock amount, then all to 50% and so on. if you only have resources to cover crafting 50%, and you started out with several of some and none of others, you end up with 50% of all - instead of 100% of some and none of others.