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CompositeLight / currentRMS-helper

Chrome extension to add functionality to the CurrentRMS web interface.
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Feature Request: Scanning bulk quantities of items #13

Closed Socapexxx closed 8 months ago

Socapexxx commented 8 months ago

It would be nice to have a way to adjust the quantity in the allocate section, while also scanning the asset, in the same barcode.

Thinking the barcode would have a keyword, followed by quantity, followed by the bulk barcode. The extension would listen for the keyword in the scanned asset, set the quantity field to the amount, then set the asset to the bulk barcode.

Not sure if this is feesable or I should look into using AHK.

An example would be a case of lights, where you might have 2 powercon cables, 2 brackets, 2 safety chains, all bulk items, but with barcodes inside the case. The user can easily count the quantity, but we are finding that sometimes there is user error where they might miss one clamp for example, and we don't know if its actually missing or just an error.

CompositeLight commented 8 months ago

Number one offline solution for this is BARCODE EVERYTHING!!!!!!!! Which is where we've ended up. However, fully agree for things that are bulk / can only be bulk it would make sense to have a quantity option within the barcode. Scanning the same bulk barcode 20 times makes little sense. Not hard at all to code, but requires a prefix that would definitely never appear in an asset code. Maybe for quantity 10 of asset 12346 we could do: "%10%123456" ?

Socapexxx commented 8 months ago

That sounds great! love the prefix.

We recently bought a batch of new moving lights, and as you said barcoding everything is the best way to work, so we barcoded the clamps. One out of 24 wasn't scanned on the job, so we were questioning ourselves to whether we actually scanned it, or left it somewhere.....

CompositeLight commented 8 months ago

This feature is now added (1.21.0). Thanks for the suggestion. Enjoy!