We are exploring Fibery for our team, and one feature we would like to explore is asset tracking, existing out of 3 major features:
Asset documentation and status tracking with attached bookings.
This is relatively simple with an asset database, and a booking database.
A clear overview of available equipment for a selected period (and a filter).
This is also quite doable, a timeline with all equipment, and all bookings as cards works pretty well. It would be great if timelines have a From/To option though
A form or location where the user can create a booking, and see + select all available equipment
While the timeline has a pretty good overview, creating a new booking (card) would only create it for one piece of equipment, and filtering lanes will hide the booking, making it hard to understand what equipment is and is not available.
Is there anyone who has a good idea how to create a view or form where you can: See a time period, See and filter the available equipment in that period, Select all desired equipment, create a new database entry for the booking of all the selected equipment in the specified period.
In fact you may have many-to-many relation between Booking and Asset, in this case on a timeline view you will see same booking in several Asset lines.
Timeline Control:
The timeline controls are great, its more of a “nice to have” than a hard must.
Having a to-from selection would allow the user to select the desired time-frame much faster than manually scrolling , especially for odd or future moments.
Something like this for example
Booking Card
We got the many-many relations, which does indeed work like a charm for the database relations. The thing i’m wondering how to do is either:
Select several piece of equipment while filtering in the lanes, and then create a new booking for all the equipment.
or
Create a new booking, and keep the time-period visible on the timeline while im filtering lanes.
So this is our current timeline. We only have 4 pieces of equipment in the current database, but would in the end populate it with a lot lot more.
Right now I can create a booking for 1 piece of equipment, but the booking (or its period) is no longer visible on the timeline once I filter the lanes, as its not part of those pieces of equipment.
Its also not possible to select (or pin) several pieces of equipment, and then create a booking for all those in one go.
I was working with the forms and wondered, is there any plan to support filtered views in forms? That might already solve 90% of the use-cases we are trying to support.
Basically: Add the Embed View option, as is already supported in rich text, but make it possible to filter based on parameters (for this instance Date Start/End and Selected Equipment).
I was thinking about adding views when setting up the form (so for the admin creating the form, not the end-user).
Say we have a form for booking equipment. At the bottom we could then attach / create a view (timeline in this case).
The settings / filters of this timeline view would then be altered based on the chosen equipment and the chosen date start/end.
