Title: Equipments Management plug-in

You can post an "equipment entry" into your TeamPage with this plug-in.

Note: Just release a new plug-in by the name of Forum6608: Inventory Management plug-in. This was designed to, for example, manage numbers of items in warehouse, storage, office etc and make it easy to prevent them from being insufficient.

Download

Click the link below to download a com.traction.equipments-version.zip file.

Notice: The name of this plugin file was changed from com.traction.form.equipments (plural) to com.traction.form.equipment (singular) in the version 1.0.6, This means you have to uninstall version 1.0.5 (or older) of this plugin first and install version 1.0.6. (if you have already installed this plugin 1.0.5 or older)

Install

Log in to TeamPage as a server administrator, open Server Settings > Plugins page.

Choose the zip file you download from the link above, com.traction.equipment-Version.zip, and upload it.

You will see "I18N ERROR" like this. Don't worry. This error mean that the international resources (= English language files) are not load yet.

Open Server Settings > General > Manage Server page, and click "Restart TeamPage" to solve this I18N ERROR. (If in the cloud environment, you may need twice restarting) After restarting, you will see the "Equipment Management" in the installed plugins list.

Configurations

How to show the configuration view

Click the "Configure" link to open the configuration view.

Like this.

Settings

Post Space

Server admin(s) must select a space where the "equipment" entries should be posted.

Equipment Entry Title Template

Each entry title should be displayed with the format you specify in this configuration. You can use;

%id% for Registration ID
%sn% for Serial Number
%mfr% for Manufacturer Name
%prod% for Product Name
%location% for Location
%category% for Category
%start% for Start Date (Deployment Date)
%change% for Last Change Date (The date you can indicate as a date you last made a change to the equipment)
%due% for Due Date (Ending Day)

Note: Each keyword must end width a % character, though the % was not required in the version 1.0.5 or older.

Display "Equipment Spreadsheet" Link

If yes, the link to show the spreadsheet view will be displayed in the details section in the single view.

The button to display the spreadsheet view

Field Label Text

Server admins can change the label text displayed in the form fields, such as Registration ID, Serial Number, Manufacturer Name, and Product Name. This means you can use this plug-in for various purposes.

Here is an example.

Prefixes of Tags

Server admins can change the prefixes in the tag names used for Manufacturer, Product Name, Location and Category,

For example, the "MFR" prefix will be added to a tag for Manufacturer, but admins can replace the "MFR" with "Supplier".

Spare

If you select "Yes" in the "Show Spare Selector" setting, you can use the "Spare" status for your equipment.

The equipment entry will have the "Spare" tag and its status will be "Waiting (Spare)".

How to use

Create a new equipment entry

Click "New Equipment" in the sidebar.

Fill in the form and click "Save Equipment" to post it.

Single View

The equipment entry will be displayed like this.

Section

Section Table

The following section settings defines a section which contains new equipment entries.

You'll get a section like this.

Spreadsheet View

Click "Show Spreadsheet" button.

You will get this view. Click the heading cell to sort and enter keyword to filter.

Alert

The equipment entries will be included in the digest and alert you that the due dates are coming.

Attachments:

digest.png
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plugin_i18n_solved_en.png
plugin_configure.png
configure_label_text.png
addmenu.png
equipment_form.png
section_settings.png
new_equipment_section.png
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single_view.png
spreadsheet_button.png
spare1.png
spare2.png

Shared Files for Forum6011

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Forum6608: Inventory Management plug-in

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Forum6608: Inventory Management plug-in

Article: Forum6011 (permalink)
Categories: :Doc:Forum
Date: September 10, 2013; 11:25:07 PM Eastern Daylight Time

Author Name: Takashi Okutsu
Author ID: takashi