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Fred, I've been following this conversation, and the thought that occurred to me was event&ticket sales. Imagine that each "bucket" of items is a broadway show, playing each day with a certain number of seats in the theater (ie, 1000 seats for 1000 phones). Then, people can reserve items by buying/reserving seats for the shows they want, on the days they want. If you could fit your need into that paradigm, it would open you up to look for any number of products build for the purpose of running theater events, shows, or seminar bookings. Having said all that ... maybe phpScheduleIt would suit you? http://www.php.brickhost.com/index.php Sp On 1/24/2013 1:12 PM, [email protected] wrote: Hello Wesley, I am looking for an internal system, not something exposed to the Internet. There are a few dozens of potential users. The software has to allow reservation dates for equipment.The equipment loans are very similar to item loans in a library, with one big exception: some equipment is fungible. The selected software has to support pools, or buckets, of identical items (e.g., 12 test servers, 1000 phones, 30 laptops) that can be reserved and loaned in bulk (e.g., I want 4 servers and 100 phones). I tried to simulate this with the consumable tracking feature in some existing library management software, but consumables are not returned to the pool, so that didn't work. Renewable loans is a nice feature if available, not strictly necessary. Do you have a particular software in mind? Thank you, --Fred On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 12:41:04 -0500 "Wesley Peterson - [email protected]" <mhvlug2.trace.02036bc4e0.wesley.d.peterson#[email protected]> wrote:Are you looking for a system that would be used internally (your company only) to track the loans and due dates, or are you looking for a system that will be accessible (at a different level) for potential customers to see what (and when) the equipment they would like to borrow is available? Also, is this to work like a library in that loans would be made for similar periods and renewable (perhaps with limits)? On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 9:33 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:Yes, I looked at MERCI. It has the notion of buckets of fungible items, which is exactly what we need. We don't want people to have to check boxes for 100 individual phones when they need that many for a test. Of course, this being Drupal, it is quite intimidating and has a lot of prereqs. But definitely worth a look. Ben, you suggested a spreadsheet. C'mon. You know the saying: A spreadsheet is never the answer. A spreadsheet is the question. The answer is "no". Yes, Drupal is probably a bit overkill, but it beats having to develop my own solution. --Fred_______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College Feb 6 - Raspberry Pi Mar 6 - 10th Anniversary Meeting - Linux where you least expect it Apr 3 - Typography: Physical Art to Digital Art |
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