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[Silverionmox]

Early in the development of a fortress, you use just one stockpile for eg. food. Later on, you'll most likely want to split it up. With the first few, that's ok, but as soon as you have a dozen you need to revisit every other stockpile you already made of that type to make a new exclusive one. So I suggest to add the option to make a stockpile exclusive for a good or category; this would override all settings of past and future stockpiles (i.e. it's also turned off in new stockpiles), until it is turned off.

[Granite26]

I don't get it?

[korora]

Sounds like a button in the stockpile assignment screen that says "enable this category for this stockpile and only this stockpile".  Not sure why you'd want that, but to each his own.

[Silverionmox]

As an alternative to checking every stockpile and turning off the category or item you only want in that stockpile. Useful for mature fortresses with dozens of stockpiles.

[korora]

Sure, but I don't see where I would ever find that useful.

[Silverionmox]

Making a stockpile exclusive (for 2 items, 30 stockpiles of that type present): 7 keypresses.
Making all other stockpiles not accept those: 210 keypresses in addition to finding and selecting them.

[korora]

Oh, I absolutely agree that this makes it easier to make a stockpile for Category X and remove X from all other stockpiles, given that you already have X strewn among many stockpiles. 

I just don't see why it would be desirable to do that.

[Granite26]

So you want to be able to set a stockpile to accept something, and simultaniously turn it off for all other stockpiles?

Like This is my new plump helmets stockpile, all plump helmets should go here and nowhere else ? ... I can't say I get it, but to each his own

Although I'd like to resuggest my stockpile priorities (Low, Med, High) as a solution.  Setting a Med priority food storage stockpile and later defining a high priority plump helmet stockpile would do what you're looking for, with the added benefit of going back into the general pool when the high priority (specific) fills up.

[Impaler[WrG]]

Alternatively have some global stockpile search function, on top you have the traditional stockpile selector lists and below you see 3 corresponding lists of stockpiles that match the desired selection criteria.  You can then select the individual stockpiles are toggle on or off their settings.