Drupal for IT inevntory
mejason69 - November 1, 2007 - 16:32
New to Drupal, so I was wondering if Drupal could be used for tracking IT inventory, it does not have to be anything fancy.
Just needs to track Assest type, serial #, users assigned to system, warratee date, and what department/program it belongs to.
I know drupal is designed more for social type websites, just thought maybe I could give this a shot.
thanks
Should be pretty straightforward
While Drupal is often used for social type websites it can be used in many other ways.
I would by determining all the pieces of data I need to keep, which ones are unique (only apply to a single piece of equipement) and which ones I might want to be able to list information by (ex: department/program). For the later case I would use taxonomy to represent the choices unless I needed to track more than a simple 'name' (maybe I want not only the department name but also contact information) in which case I would implement that as a separate content type (then in my inventory type use a node reference for those fields).
You can then use the Content Contstruct Kit (CCK) to add an inventory type (and any subtypes you decide on, I would add the subtypes first) and then use the views module to construct one or more ways to view the inventory information.
Thanks for the Reply, but
Thanks for the Reply, but most of that stuff is over my head. Not exactly sure what the CCK is wand where I can get a hold of it, is taxonomy a drupal module?? From what your saying I gather that it wouldn't be too hard to get something up and running.
I was taking a look at both this module http://drupal.org/project/inventorymangement
and this one http://drupal.org/project/erp. Has anyone used the modules? Would they work for what I want or would it be over kill.
thanks again
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CCK is the content creation kit module http://drupal.org/project/cck & the CCK category for the fields needed for any project = http://drupal.org/project/Modules/category/88
taxonomy is part of core and is a way to categorize your nodes (content).
The inventory management module you link to is only available for Drupal 4.7.x. It has not been updated to work with Drupal 5.x
The erp module you link to was never released.
Challanges
The first link only has a 4.7 release and I would recommend using Drupal 5.3. Erp does not even have a download link so it would be a little hard to try.
This Sounds Similar to My Needs
I am trying to develop a support site with many of the same structures and functions. I'm curious to know what you have found.
I started a group to foster discussion about this and other related use cases: http://groups.drupal.org/resource-management . Will you join it and share your problems and solutions?
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