Item creation process

[eopo]

What is the problem you are trying to solve with this feature?

The current item creation process is quite tedious. You are required to manually select stuff like the location and guess the asset id, whilst both are available as QR-Codes as well

What is the solution you are proposing?

A barcode-scanner integrated creation process of items. It could start with scanning a not used asset id, automaticallly put input focus on the input field for storage location, which can be scanned as well (Automatically stripping the url parts, if contained in the code) and in the future maybe even integrated with EAN decoders or similar

What alternatives have you considered?

No response

Additional context

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Contributions

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[tankerkiller125]

EAN barcodes are already supported by the scanner, scanning one will attempt to look up the item information from a couple of free APIs.

[eopo]

Hmm, those APIs seem to miss a lot of stuff, out of 10 tested codes, only one was found - But that's not a HomeBox problem

[Saturo78]

i´m really happy with the current process.
Having entered 6000 items yet, the most via import.

[eopo]

Good that it works for you. Import is a possibility, but I think taking extra steps isn't the best solution - Especially regarding asset-id labels. With auto-creation, i only know the asset ID, after the Item has been saved. Without auto-creation I can manually set the asset-id, but also only after the item has been saved and after i manually navigated to the item page and went to the edit tab.
Also, the QR-Codes for storage locations seem to be a bit useless, since - if i'm not missing anything - their only use is to open the location page.

[boyerak]

Check out https://github.com/duelion/homebox-companion
It creates items from photos, not specifically barcodes, but it might help with your workflow.