equipment locker..

[Roger Haugen]

Would be nice to have the option of adding more gear than weights/bottles.. like camera, suit, regulators, bcd.

And each item could also have a bought location/date, last service date and other useful information

[Robert C. Helling]

Am Mittwoch, 26. Juli 2017 10:47:31 UTC+2 schrieb Roger Haugen:

Would be nice to have the option of adding more gear than weights/bottles.. like camera, suit, regulators, bcd.

And each item could also have a bought location/date, last service date and other useful information

Thank you very much for your suggestion. I guess it is fair to say this is currently not on top of the list of priorities of any of the active developers. But feel free to contribute code. Please note as well the the suggestion to also log equipment comes up every now and then but then everybody has different ideas how this shall be implemented (e.g. per dive or not) and what is important (some want reminders of revision intervals, serial numbers etc etc). I guess, even if we came up with something, many of the people who would want to have this in principle will not like it because their personal itch is not scratched.

So for the time being I can only suggest to use either the notes field of the dive or the tags to log this kind of information (which are essentially free text and up the the definition of the user). 

[Adric Norris]

On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 7:49 AM, 'Robert C. Helling' via Subsurface Divelog <subsurfac...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

So for the time being I can only suggest to use either the notes field of the dive or the tags to log this kind of information (which are essentially free text and up the the definition of the user). 

On a related note, is it currently possible to search/filter by text in the notes field? I don't see any such option under Log / Filter divelist, or anywhere else for that matter?

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[A2]

On Wednesday, July 26, 2017 at 2:49:52 PM UTC+2, Robert C. Helling wrote:

Please note as well the the suggestion to also log equipment comes up every now and then but then everybody has different ideas how this shall be implemented (e.g. per dive or not) and what is important (some want reminders of revision intervals, serial numbers etc etc).

That's  actually a good idea. Since everything is stored in Subsurface's cloud, there could be a "report as stolen" function associated to the serial numbers. There used to be a website dedicated to this but it went offline some time ago.

[Dirk Hohndel]

I have no interest in turning Subsurface into an asset management system.

/D

[Ben McCandless]

This is just my two cents, but I too would be interested in some more intuitive way to enter (and display) the equipment taken on a dive into Subsurface.

Suppose that rather than creating a lot of code to implement an asset management system, there was simply a field where the user could enter "equipment tags"?  I'm picturing something like, but separate from,  the existing "Tags" field, this would let users quickly enter in the equipment used, and be a bit more visible than entries in the Notes field.  The user would be able to define the entry in the equipment_tags, so if they could put whatever info they wanted (within reason: "2mm_Hood", "Camera", "TankSN12345678" would all be possible).

Regards,

Ben

[Dirk Hohndel]

Just out of curiosity, why wouldn't you be able to do that with the existing tags?

/D

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[Ben McCandless]

I certainly could, but I use a lot of tags, and it's not easy to view tags that are past the limit of the text box, so many of them would be lost in the jumble.  Also, tags are sorted alphabetically, which means that equipment tags would not be kept together (unless a prefix was used) - and this seems like it would be non-ideal behavior.

Here's an actual set of tags from one of my dives:

• Clumpy Nudibranch, 
• Conch, 
• Leopard Cone, 
• Fringing Reef, 
• Leaf Scorpion, 
• Moray, 
• Octopus, 
• Salt, 
• Shore, 
• Banded Coral Shrimp
  

Here's some additional tags that would see using for equipment tags:

• Personal BC (vs. Rented BC)
• Personal Steel Tank (vs Rented Alum Tank)
  
• Gloves
• 2mm Hood  (vs 3mm hat
• Camera (VS GoPro with pole)
• Short Fins (vs Long Fins)
• Pointer
• Slate
• SMB

On my computer, the Tags field shows approximately 70 characters without resizing the column, so adding another 70+ characters of tags would generally ensure that there's that much more text that I have to manually move the cursor over in order to read.  

Anyhow, it's just an idea - I expect that there's a better way out there.  Perhaps I'm looking at this wrong, and improving tag management would take care of this for me.  I'll keep thinking about it.

Ben

On Thursday, July 27, 2017 at 10:36:21 AM UTC-8, Dirk wrote:

Just out of curiosity, why wouldn't you be able to do that with the existing tags?

/D

On Jul 27, 2017, at 11:32 AM, Ben McCandless <mcc...@gmail.com> wrote:

This is just my two cents, but I too would be interested in some more intuitive way to enter (and display) the equipment taken on a dive into Subsurface.

Suppose that rather than creating a lot of code to implement an asset management system, there was simply a field where the user could enter "equipment tags"?  I'm picturing something like, but separate from,  the existing "Tags" field, this would let users quickly enter in the equipment used, and be a bit more visible than entries in the Notes field.  The user would be able to define the entry in the equipment_tags, so if they could put whatever info they wanted (within reason: "2mm_Hood", "Camera", "TankSN12345678" would all be possible).

Regards,

Ben

On Wednesday, July 26, 2017 at 7:00:36 AM UTC-8, Dirk wrote:

On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 07:55:04AM -0700, A2 wrote:
>
>
> On Wednesday, July 26, 2017 at 2:49:52 PM UTC+2, Robert C. Helling wrote:
> >
> >
> > Please note as well the the suggestion to also log equipment comes up
> > every now and then but then everybody has different ideas how this shall be
> > implemented (e.g. per dive or not) and what is important (some want
> > reminders of revision intervals, serial numbers etc etc).
> >
>
>
> That's  actually a good idea. Since everything is stored in Subsurface's
> cloud, there could be a "report as stolen" function associated to the
> serial numbers. There used to be a website dedicated to this but it went
> offline some time ago.

I have no interest in turning Subsurface into an asset management system.

/D

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[Chad]

i found this old conversation.  I was wondering if this request has move up in the priorities after all this time.  It would be a useful feature.  Perhaps just a simple field similar the the suit field but for BCD and maybe fins.   The is useful because many divers have different BCD's for different situations and the BCD can be a factor for your weight.  This would just help in planning for future dives,   Thanks

[JB2Cool]

If you want to use it to factor in your weight then put it in the weight section. I do this with my suit inflate cylinder and umbilical torch, i assign the approximate negative weight to them so i can then subtract that from my total weighting.

That's what i do anyhow.

Jason

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