Question about selling in market stalls

[Ele]

I am having some difficulty figuring out the assignment page--to the right of "intensity" are two numbers that change with intensity, one labelled "Sale (Id)" and one labelled (Id)--I don't understand what these numbers are. I am trying to figure out how to basically tell the vendor to sell X number of an item but my experiments so far have pretty much resulted in the vendor either selling all of my inventory of an item or none of it. It seems like there must be a way to do this--can anyone help me out here?

[Kwalyz]

The number immediately to the right of the work intensity setting(% work) is how much of the item per day they will sell.
The number on the far right is how much coin per day the sale of the item (at that particular work rate) will generate.
The number to the left of the work intensity(%) is how many are currently in the resource or food storage building (depending on where storage of the item is indicated on the description)
The market stall will keep selling the item until there is none left in the appropriate storage.
As they gain diplomacy levels they will sell more so adjust the work intensity so they only sell the amount you want them to.

[UglyBird]

It is a bit of a trial and error.
Sale (1d) is the number of items sold per day.
Label (1d) is the amount of coins you will get per day.
You need to work out how many of each item you can afford to sell per day, how many you manufacture or collect and how many you require for your village per day, then you can adjust the amount you can safely sale.
Hope this helps, good luck!

[Ele]

Thanks, Kwalzyz and UglyBird--that does help. It sounds like it may be a good idea to check and adjust the numbers once a day--at least until I get a better idea of what I'm doing. And it seems like I probably need to do the same thing to reserve amounts of necessary items that I do with my grain seeds--hold some of them out of general storage so they don't get used up.

[sindar58]

Hi, yes .. I put grain I do not want to sell in the farm shed :))

[UglyBird]

As sindar58 says, it is a good idea for seeds needed to sow fields.
Anything else you do not want to be used by your production and villagers are better stored in a separate chest, you house or built one anywhere else.