Clone Device plugin

matthoov · 2009-04-07 07:48:34

I'd like to announce a release of another plugin that we put to use developed by Ryan F. called "CLONE". Our users needed the ability to clone a device that acutally had data associated with it. The templates worked for new "types" - but not when you were wanting to replace a device with a new device - and keep all the other history. I guess it all came down to our asset management policy..

So - we created this little plugin tool. Just copy to your plugins directory, logout and back in, and it will be activated automatically. It can be found under the plugins tab of a device.

You can see some other plugins we are working on at: http://www.opensourcegov.net/projects - I hope that we can see these moved to core soon!

Again you can download at : http://www.opensourcegov.net/projects/glpi-clone/files

Your feedback and comments are appreciated. Thanks!

Matt
matt@opensourcegov.net

remi · 2009-04-07 08:07:00

Don't you think this plugin implement a duplicate feature of something already in the core : template ?

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matthoov · 2009-04-07 08:57:58

Good question. From what i have seen template is good for things that have a set of common attributes. And we have used it...

The current version of CLONE takes the basics and clones the fields. The problem with template - why would you want to create templates you are going to only use 1 time? We have a lot of these 1 off situations - and our policy does not allow re-using records.

In the near future - CLONE will be able to copy more than just the basics - documents, contracts, relations, custom fields, etc....

Does any of this make sense? I may be way off on this... But we have not seen an easy way to copy things in these situations using template.

Matt

wawa · 2009-04-08 09:26:32

matthoov wrote:

Does any of this make sense?

yes it makes sense
I was thinking of something like this to deal with standard replacement (sorry I don't know the exact word in english. when a manufacturer replace for example a broken pc by a new one).

remi · 2009-04-08 10:33:50

> Does any of this make sense?
Yes.

Looking at the code.

Why do you create an object as you could use the existing commonitem one.

        $new_device = new plugin_clone($_POST['device_type']);

        $newid = $new_device->add($data);



        switch ($_POST['device_type']){

            case COMPUTER_TYPE : $fn = 'computer'; break;

            case NETWORKING_TYPE : $fn = 'networking'; break;

            case PRINTER_TYPE : $fn = 'printer'; break;

            case MONITOR_TYPE : $fn = 'monitor'; break;

            case PERIPHERAL_TYPE : $fn = 'peripheral'; break;                

            case SOFTWARE_TYPE : $fn = 'software'; break;                

            case PHONE_TYPE : $fn = 'phone'; break;

        }

Could be simpler :

        $newid = $ci->obj->add($data);

        $fn = $ci->getType();

Hope this help to improve your code and your knowledge of GLPI internals.

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