By chennon221 on

I'm trying to design a site for the company who I work for, but hit a wall. I'm hoping someone can help me. I would like to develop some kind of inventory management tool where I can keep track of equipment type (computers, servers, furniture, etc), model numbers, location (server room, office, etc.), cost of equipment, and a few other fields. I tried a few ways of doing this, but A> i'm doing it wrong or B> it's not suiting my needs.

My question is: what is the best way of creating something like this? I'm still a beginner at this, so creating a new module myself or modifying code is pretty much out of the question because I'm not a programmer by any means. I just want to create something that is easy, answers my questions, and doesn't look to simplistic. I want management to like this idea.

Please help.

Thanks,
Craig

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nevets’s picture

nevets commented

Have you tried the Content Construct Kit (CCK) module for defining content type(s)?

chennon221’s picture

chennon221 commented

So far, for content type I created "Inventory". I then created fields for this (model number, company, cost, etc). Once, I fill this out and submit, how can I access the results?? I'm trying to create a page with all of the inventory and the info tied to it. It would be even better if a user can sort by year or by type.

Please help.

CH

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jeffreyd commented

I haven't found any modules for this function, and I need one too. In the mean time, I'm modeling my resources with custom node types filled in with CCK fields, views, events, triggers, etc.—in otherwords "the great module mashup".

If nothing better comes along, I might be able to package everything up as a module—but it would be my first and it would be the wrong answer (monolithic modules have short life expectancies).

After looking all over Drupal.org, I finally created a group (http://groups.drupal.org/resource-management) to coordinate labors on this and related use cases. Please join it and help me figure all this out. If nothing else, we can document what not to do.

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MidGe48 commented

You access it easily by creating one, or more, views for it.

Views allows for selection of values and sortable columns, just as you describe.

My suggestion is that you start playing with Views on some of your existing nodes, like Users, for instance, then get your CCK nodes and upload a few, and use your freshly gained knowledge to get the functionality you want. Then start looking at theming the view.

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