Image or media to accompany bucket or resource

This is one of the top feature requests, but is a little more difficult than just adding an image field on a content type because of buckets. Depending on how buckets are configured, a bucket of DV cameras might have Sonys, Panasonics, Canons, etc. Assigning an image to a content type for bucket items and on the node itself for resources and then make those images usable in some useful way is enough to make most developers heads hurt which why we've help off on that part.

Along those same lines, we plan on developing a MERCI Inventory sub-module that will handle serial numbers, PO numbers, purchase price, etc. in a standardized way. All of this is being discussed with the first location using MERCI at the Open Media Camp as well as how to fund and find developers to fulfill some of these requests.

Has there been any new developments on this? I'd love to be able to have a page with the resources/buckets listed in categories with photos and descriptions. If not though, I suppose the pages could be added manually... but having a description page of available items tied to the resource/bucket would be really helpful.

The merci_inventory module is done. It allows one to easily apply a template of cck fields to a reservable items. Saves you from maually setting up cck fields for each item content type. Either way you can add an image field to the content types you want images for. Then edit the view at admin/merci/manage/current_inventory/all/Available to display the field. You could also edit the view to sort by the MERCI Equipment Grouping taxonomy.

I'm not sure I totally understand.

So I've created a content type called "Panasonic AG HPX170". Within it, I've created a number of bucket items (e.g. camera 1, camera 2, etc.). And what I'm assuming you're saying is I can create an image field (to the path of the image?) that can be displayed for the admin inventory list.

What I'd actually like to do is have one unavailable bucket item that has a body (the description of the item) and an image, that can all be displayed on a page for general users to look at. I have one called "The Equipment Library" I'd like to list our inventory at. I don't know if this is possible, or even makes sense since I suppose I could just make separate static pages for each piece of gear.

Because differences in how buckets and resources work, it would be difficult to include a display in the module that did what you want that could be customized at each implementation. For resources you'd probably want to display each node. You can use MERCI Inventory/Field Sync to add image fields to those nodes, but for buckets you'd want to add an image, weight, and description to the type. That's harder and as far as I know there isn't currently a module that enables Views to display content types. Even if that was written, it would be really difficult to display nodes and content types in the same View. And if you did manage to get that far, someone would want to do something like display the list alphabetically and mix nodes and types in the out.

It could be done, but it is much easier to create a merci_resource_type content type (or something like that) and add a node for each bucket type with the fields you want. You could include your resource content types in the View or add those as new merci_resource_type nodes too. The Open Media Foundation's public facing view of their reservable equipment was created that way...

http://www.openmediafoundation.org/community-tools/22

Nice... The link you posted is exactly what I'd like to have displayed for our students and staff. Now I just need to figure out how to show multiple nodes like that on my different pages.