EVEWalletAware - Manual

Contents

• EWA Main page
• Manual main page
• • Introduction
  • Getting started
  • Account creation
  • Update game data
• Options explained
• Main window
• Menu - File
• Menu - Wallet
• Menu - Extras

Introduction

EVEWalletAware (EWA) is a 3rd party tool which aims to simplify the management of your EVE Online financial matters and ease the data mining through EVE's different data sources (wallet transactions, wallet journals, market orders etc.). EWA is purely aimed at EVE traders. It offers little to no help for producers/industrialists, like for example a reprocessing calculator or other professions.

While EWA started out really slim in terms of available features and therefore was easy to understand/figure out without any kind of documentaion, it has grown quite a bit since its first release. I do realize that new EWA users might be overwhelmed/confused about what EWA does and where to find that certain feature. This manual tries to explain the various aspects of EWA.

Getting started

EWA utilizes the EVE API to download your wallet transactions and journal. Unfortunately, the way CCP designed the EVE API, in order to download your wallet data, your Full API Key is necessary. Therefore keep the following in mind, before downloading EWA and entering your Full API Key:

That said, if you haven't created your Full API Key yet, do it now! The first thing you need to do in EWA is to set up an EWA account and enter your EVE API credentials.

EWA account creation

If you start EWA for the first time, it will automatically present you the options screen, where you need to create an EWA account. This is how this screen looks like:

Let's have a look at the available fields and what to put in there:

• Account name: Enter some meaningful name/description in here by which you identify this EWA account. Do NOT use your EVE account (user) name. No 3rd party application, no EVE related website will ever require your EVE account name. If you're asked to provide it, report this to CCP immediately! This EWA account description will appear in the account dropdown box on the main screen:
  
• EVE API User ID, Full Access Key: Both of these values are assigned to you by (re-)generating your EVE API key(s) for one of your EVE accounts, as described above.
• Default account: If checked, EWA will use this account, along with your default character (see below), when starting.

You can create as much EWA accounts as you like, letting EWA manage as much EVE accounts/characters as you like.

Character selection

Now that you've created an EWA account, you need to retrieve the characters for this account from the EVE API. Switch to the "Character(s)" tab:

This is a bit tricky, so read on carefully. You need to mark the account as your default account in order to be able to retrieve the characters for it and click the "Save" button. If you haven't done this, switch back to the "API Key(s)" tab and make sure the account is marked as your default account. I know this is inconvenient, but that's the way I did it back in the day. And you only need to fetch your characters once (in a while).

Press the button "Retrieve character(s) from EVE API". After that, the dropdown box should be populated with all characters. Select one character, enter his skill levels for Accounting, Broker Relations and Margin Trading (currently not in use) and click "Save as default character".

After you have done so, EWA's main window should have changed like this:

Update dynamic game data

After you've created your EWA account, the first thing you must do, is to update EWA with EVE's dynamic data. To do so, click Extras -> Update game data -> All of the above.

It is crucial that you update EVE's dynamic data, otherwise EWA's wallet journal features won't work at all. Player outposts and journal entry descriptions (Broker Fees, Bounty Prizes ect.) are not part of CCP's static database dump for developers. Therefore you need to grab them from the API first. You also need to update them from time to time, as new outposts get built.

Congratulations, you're now ready use to EWA. Continue with Options Explained.

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