Equipment Types

equipment types are used to group equipment for reporting and creation of requests you can think of this as a model number master file for instance, suppose your company specializes in selling laptops, and one of your best selling models is the stellarbook pro in the equipment types database, you would have a single entry for the stellarbook pro if your inventory contains 50 stellarbook pro units, each would have its own record with a unique serial number however, all 50 units would be linked to the same equipment type entry for the stellarbook pro create equipment type go to the equipment types tab and click on + new equipment type a new equipment type window will pop up asking you to provide details for the equipment type information equipment type name (required) name of the equipment type owner equipment type owner description description of the equipment type post loan pad the number of days past the estimated return date before the equipment is available for another loan or reservation active check this box to activate the equipment type post loan pad label a label for the equipment after the loan has ended and before it is available for loan again available labels are none , unavailable , or na image url this field stores a url where an image of this equipment type is stored 3\ to finish, click on the save button