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Redmine plugin to enable supply management for issues.
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Allow addition of custom fields to 'Assets' and 'People' #13

Open whotopia opened 1 year ago

whotopia commented 1 year ago

Hi. Would it be possible to allow for the addition of custom fields to all of the objects created by this addon? Right now this is possible for 'Supply items' but not for 'Assets' nor 'People'

Problem Depending on organizational needs, there are other data items we might want to capture against all of the objects. Just allowing for custom fields on all 3 'Supply items', 'Assets' and 'People' would REALLY improve the overall flexibility of this addon.

Improvement In the context of the gtt-project, I would also like to be able to geo-locate all of these objects to particular geospatial points. (which e.g. in my case would reflect facilities/buildings)

sanak commented 1 year ago

@whotopia (CC: @dkastl, @smellman, @mopinfish) Thanks for your feedback!

Currently, Supply items has custom fields (unit), but its purpose is another one (customizing supply units), in my memory.

But, I felt that having custom fields in your suggestion is nice idea.

Having geo-location functionality may be too much at this moment, but I will take a look about having custom fields when I have a time.

whotopia commented 1 year ago

@whotopia (CC: @dkastl, @smellman, @mopinfish) Thanks for your feedback!

Currently, Supply items has custom fields (unit), but its purpose is another one (customizing supply units), in my memory.

But, I felt that having custom fields in your suggestion is nice idea.

Having geo-location functionality may be too much at this moment, but I will take a look about having custom fields when I have a time.

Thanks for your comments!

I'm working on a version of Redmine specifically to support the management activities of Ministries of Health (mainly in developing countries). These organisations typically have to manage or oversee items (like equipment) or facilities -- each of which, if I could capture Geo-located in Redmine would just become a potentially fantastic addon. (imagine seeing on a map where issues are ). These organisation also, from supply chain perspective often just deal with things like stock-outs of equipment or consumables. Again it would be great to be able to geospacially locate such things.

I hope you fine the time to add something like this! I think it would be incredibly useful. I'd be pleased to test/discuss if you want help/feedback. If I knew a bit more Ruby, I'd even look at coding myself!

Thanks!!!

dkastl commented 1 year ago

@whotopia , thank you for your suggestions! I'm curious about your use case, because we came across a few related to asset management.

Actually it would be nice to have the "geo" attribute a general data type and/or to make it configurable in trackers. There is already an issue in the redmine_gtt plugin: https://github.com/gtt-project/redmine_gtt/issues/18

That said, this doesn't look like an easy task, and I'm not even sure this can be done through a plugin. It would also help if there are a few interested parties in order to fund development.