Finding equipment

Both equipment lists come in two shapes. Simple View is the reading view — units down the left, the selected one open beside them. Table View is the working view — every unit in a row, searchable, filterable and sortable.

Equipment → Client’s Equipment → Table View

The button is labelled with the view you are going to, so Table View takes you across and Simple View brings you back.

The table

Equipment → Client’s Equipment → Table View

Each row is one unit. Equipment is a link to its page, and Action at the end opens what you can do with that row without opening it.

Searching and filtering

Equipment → Table View → toolbar

• The search box matches on equipment name, model number and serial number, which covers the three ways somebody describes a unit over the phone.
• Show Filtering Options opens the filters, for narrowing to a client, a status, a category and so on.
• 11 Columns Selected chooses which columns appear. Turn off what you never read and the table gets narrower.
• The ⇅ arrows in a heading sort by that column.

What the columns tell you

The default set covers identity, cover and whereabouts in one line:

Column	What it answers
Equipment, Image	What it is
Client, Address	Whose it is and where it sits
Brand, Model No., Serial No.	Which exact unit this is
Warranty Expiry Date	Whether it is still covered
Status	Whether it is available, ready to deploy or deployed
Extra Field 1, Extra Field 2	Whatever else you record against a unit
Action	Row actions

Sorting by Warranty Expiry Date is the quickest way to see what is about to fall out of cover; filtering by Status is the quickest way to see what is sitting idle.