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NetBox Floorplan plugin
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Nested Location Support #6

Open DanSheps opened 4 months ago

DanSheps commented 4 months ago

Moving https://github.com/tbotnz/netbox_floorplan/issues/5 here

Use case

Currently, we have our datacenter racks laid out in locations by:

  • Floor
  • Room
  • Row
  • (Optional) Functional Group

Unfortunately, you cannot include devices in nested locations within the "Room" plan (Rack in Row 1, Infrastructure for example cannot be included in the "Room drawing").

Proposal

There are two options to solve this problem, one or the other method could be used:

  1. Allow devices from the location including all child locations
  2. Allow placement of child drawings 
    ### Tasks
- [ ] https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox-floorplan-plugin/issues/7
- [ ] https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox-floorplan-plugin/issues/8
DanSheps commented 4 months ago

I am going to create two sub-tasks for tracking the different deployment methods, and will likely open a PR to allow child locations for device placement shortly.