Hardware/Devices Booking System

[tsutton]

Hi all,

 

A member of staff need some sort of Hardware/Devices Booking System (digital camera, tablets, etc) as she has given up with paper based. I've looked at WUBS - https://sourceforge.net/projects/wubs/ - but it seems to be a little bit out of date and it has not been updated since 2013 so a bit of a concern with bugs.

 

What do you use for this purpose?

[Narwhal]

We do this through our Library system, Eclipse .net. The Librarian monitors and controls all hardware as well as books.

[southhamster]

You can use Google calendar for this by creating a resource to share, although getting people to use it may be the hardest part!

[tsutton]

We do this through our Library system, Eclipse .net. The Librarian monitors and controls all hardware as well as books.

 

Great idea, but would not work for us. The equipment booking is required by the Creative Arts team and they're located in different building. And we can't give them access to the library system due to Data Protection (we manage many academies).It need to be a stand alone solution, either by a software or web based.

 

Thanks for the suggestion, tho.

[LeMarchand]

Great idea, but would not work for us. The equipment booking is required by the Creative Arts team and they're located in different building. And we can't give them access to the library system due to Data Protection (we manage many academies).It need to be a stand alone solution, either by a software or web based.

 

If you do the management (add in the resources, basically) then surely it's not a data protection risk if they just have standard user (reserve/borrow/return) rights?

 

If it's a separate academy (rather than building) they'll no doubt want to charge separately, and it's not cheap!

[TechMonkey]

Just to chip in MRBS works and I've not found any show stopping bugs. Been using it here for 3+ years and used it at a previous school for lots+ years. Last up date was Oct 2015, 2013 was when they took the screenshot of how to download.

 

It just works really, the only issue we have here is when people don't read instructions and book for one week rather than recurring or book every 3 weeks rather than book for three weeks. You can also make it look different by editing the CSS styling, I think it even has themes so you could make a few different looks!

[tomearnshaw]

We used to use MRBS but have now moved to Booked (https://www.bookedscheduler.com/whatsnew). Self hosted and AD integrated, works really well and actively being developed.

[Asgard]

Just to chip in MRBS works and I've not found any show stopping bugs. Been using it here for 3+ years and used it at a previous school for lots+ years. Last up date was Oct 2015, 2013 was when they took the screenshot of how to download.

 

It just works really, the only issue we have here is when people don't read instructions and book for one week rather than recurring or book every 3 weeks rather than book for three weeks. You can also make it look different by editing the CSS styling, I think it even has themes so you could make a few different looks!

 

+1 for MRBS. We have the Moodle intergeated version which works a treat

[tsutton]

Thank you, I will check out MRBS and also Booked.

[mdrabble]

@tomearnshaw i just looking at Booked and having issues getting AD Integration to work - do you have details on which files you amended to get it working?

 

Cheers

[tomearnshaw]

@mdrabble I'll have a look on Monday and post up the relevant config files that I changed for our environment. One gotcha is making sure that Apache LDAP is installed, that's got me in the past...

[tomearnshaw]

@mdrabble

 

So, this is how I have 'Authentication-ActiveDirectory' configured in Application Configuration under Application Management.

 

domain.controllers IP address of one of our DCs

port 389

username blank

password blank

basedn dc=blahblah,dc=private

version 3

use.ssl False

account.suffix @blahblah.private

database.auth.when.ldap.user.not.found False

attribute.mapping sn=sn,givenname=givenname,mail=mail,telephonenumber=telephonenumber,physicaldeliveryofficename=physicaldeliveryofficename,title=title

required.groups blank

sync.groups blank

use.sso True

[mdrabble]

@tomearnshaw thank for the details - now have it working