Equipment use logs

Thanks for re-raising this @Fosten (and welcome to the forum)!

I’d love to see this get added. It feels like an obvious missing feature that one would expect to see.

Reading back through my previous comments, I feel like I was overthinking things, and the idea of cramming everything into the existing “Logs” tab seems like a bad idea now. The other idea (which @Farmer-Ed echoed) of having two tabs probably wouldn’t be that bad. What if we had “Logs” and “Usage” tabs? They would both be list of Logs, but “Usage” would just be logs that reference the equipment asset in the equipment field.

We could add some help text at the top of both tabs (on equipment assets only) that explains their difference. That would probably be enough to remove any confusion a user might experience at first when they see “Logs” and “Usage”.

For example, on the “Logs” tab, the help text might say:

For equipment usage logs, refer to the “Usage” tab.

And on the “Usage” tab, the help text might say:

For logs that reference this equipment generally (eg: Maintenance logs), refer to the “Logs” tab.

It might be a good idea to add some general help text to the “Logs” tab anyway. I don’t think there is anything there now.

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