Difference between revisions of "Inventory Database"

Latest revision as of 22:16, 10 October 2022

Overview

There's talk of an Android based barcode scanner application desired for another local charity. This may be a good opportunity to develop something that could be used for the shop as well.
--Omegix 18:00, 13 September 2010 (CDT)

• IMS Trade Study

Database Fields

• Item Name (Baseball Bat)
• Item Physical Description (it's about 3 feet long, brown, and looks like a bat)
• Item Functional Description (you hit baseballs with it)
• Date Donated (March 23rd, 2010)
• Person who Donated (Babe Ruth)
• Item's Estimated Value (could help treasurer determine a value of the item) ($20)
• Treasurer's Established Value (could be useful if we ever have to make an insurance claim) ($1,500)
• Where in the Shop the item is stored (Let's people know where to look, and hopefully where to put back) (In the back corner of the library)
• Item Serial Number (unique ID for tracking shop property)
• Loaned / Donated Boolean (to establish whether the shop owns this piece of tracked property)

Android Implementation Ideas

• Have QR codes point to shortlink of wiki entry
  • Use Semantic wiki capabilities to feed back data about the scanned code to the android app
  • Have app scan a "location in shop" code, adding the information to the wiki?
• Google offers free application hosting, including WebTinyDB hosting. Not sure how powerful TinyWebDB is, but it might be powerful enough.
• Could use Flickr application for storing pictures of barcoded items. store link to the picture in the web DB.
• Could use Android Barcode Scanner app as mechanism for reading in barcode
• Could build a web browser interface for the the facilities committee for approving new submissions, and filtering out bad entries.

QR Code Printing

• Utilize Inventory:Dymo_Labelwriter_330_Turbo