Finding equipment

Scanning a label

The QR sticker on each item encodes https://oprema.ladisk.si/e/LA-####/. Any phone camera opens it. The identifier is permanent: it survives renaming, recategorising and re-importing, which is why the labels can be printed once and left alone.

If the item belongs to a lab you are not in, the page explains whose it is and offers to ask them, instead of refusing outright. You are standing in front of the equipment, and “forbidden” would answer none of the questions that follow.

The front page

The sidebar lists categories, each with the number of items it holds. The counts are filtered the same way the list is, so what you see and what you are told always agree.

Above the list are the everyday filters:

Search

Matches the name, manufacturer, model and serial number — and, for a category whose equipment has no serials, whichever parameter stands in for one, such as the part number on an NI module. When a search finds nothing in the category you are looking at but something elsewhere, the app says so and offers Search all categories.

Status

Available or in use.

In use at and Kept in

Where the equipment is right now, and where it belongs when nobody has it.

Tags and owning lab appear in the sidebar underneath the categories, and both narrow the list in place.

All filters carries all of these too, so a filter can be built up in one place: search, status, where it is in use, where it is kept, tags, owning lab and every specification of the category.

All filters

All filters opens the full filtering page. It carries the same Search box as the front page, and on top of that it searches the specifications imported from the spreadsheet, which differ per category: measuring range, sensitivity, channel count, and so on. Text specifications are matched on “contains”; ones with a small set of values are offered as a menu.

Ticking several tags means an item must carry all of them. Not tagged yet finds equipment that has no tags at all, which is the practical way to work through a category and label it up.

Managers and admins also use this page for bulk edits; see For managers.

Pills and colour

available

Nobody has it.

in use

Somebody has it out. A plain user is told only this much, which is what somebody looking for a free instrument needs. A manager gets the room in place of the word, and the holder’s name on the detail line beside the identifier — so “who has this” is answered in the list rather than one item at a time. Their name on the item’s own page opens their page.

overdue

Past its expected return date. Red is reserved for this.

assigned

Catalogued but not lent, for example laptops and workstations. The item has a page and can be found, but there is no checkout button.