Hi, I’m wondering why farmos (using v2) is not showing a plant asset’s location in the list of plants. I created a plant asset and a seeding protocol entry. I marked the seeding entry as “is movement = true” and the plant asset is configured as “is location = false” and “is fixed = false”.
I also tried out the quick form for plantings.
in both when I check the list of plant assets it states nothing as location. I would expect that it derives the location from the according seeding protocol entry.
Am I doing anything wrong? Is this expected behavior?
My scenario is that I have defined fields. Each season I seed e.g. wheat or other grains on each field. I suppose I define fields in farmos. With every seeding I create a new plant asset which describes e.g. that wheat on this field for this season. I’m tempted to set “is fixed” to true for this plant asset but then I can only import coordination data as location rather than choosing on of the fields. Actually this plant is fixed for this season.
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I have to correct myself: I had the plant asset set to “is fixed” = True. Now that I have set it to false it is showing the location in the list of plant assets. sorry…
Still it would feel more natural to me to keep the plant asset as “is fixed” = True and set the location by choosing one of the defined fields.
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Here is how it works: Location | farmOS
Plants typically shouldn’t be set to “fixed” - that is reserved for things like land and buildings. It’s possible to set any asset to “fixed”, though, with all of the considerations described in the link above.
The “Location” column in the assets list (and the “Current location” displayed on asset records) is only populated for non-fixed assets, based on movement logs.
The term “fixed” can be a bit confusing, but hopefully once you understand the logic (link above) you can understand how best to utilize it. The public discussion that led to choosing this word is here if you’re interested: https://www.drupal.org/project/farm/issues/3182176
I also tried out the quick form for plantings.
in both when I check the list of plant assets it states nothing as location.
You must create a seeding or transplanting in the quick form which sets the plant asset’s location. Also, only when one of those logs is in the past and marked “done” will it have any affect on the asset’s location.
Hope that helps!
The “Location” column in the assets list (and the “Current location” displayed on asset records) is only populated for non-fixed assets, based on movement logs.
All that said, I could see an argument for making this field work for “fixed” assets, too. This would be an addition to the data model logic, so it wouldn’t be a breaking change, I don’t think.
The question is: how would it work? What is a fixed asset’s location? Where does it get its location from?
As stated in the link above:
Fixed location Assets can designate parent Assets to create a hierarchical organization.
The parent field might be the only place we could draw from to get a fixed asset’s location.
But, if you mark the plant asset as both is_fixed and is_location (both TRUE), it would then show up in the locations hierarchy with other locations. Not sure that would be desirable.