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Since there's a dedicated place on this site to share progress on projects, I figured I may as well post updates here, to help keep myself accountable and to get more comfortable being a non-lurker.
The asset tracker we use at my work (Asset Tiger) is really bad if you want a thorough, trustworthy count of the devices in our school building, especially if you want it done fast. District, in their infinite wisdom, has decided that one person can count every one of 1000+ devices, check what state they're in, do a once-over on the camera system, check all the printers, and about a dozen smaller odds and ends that don't merit mentioning here, all over the course of a single week. They want us to schedule a week sometime in June (meaning, after the school year ends) to get all this done.
I've done a full device count before: it was incredibly difficult and took about three months, because the tooling sucks. However, I've recently learned to use the browser dev tools baked into all the modern browsers, and I've discovered that I can mimic the POST and GET calls the site sends to Asset Tiger's servers. This means that if I wanted to I could make a custom tool that has all the features and does all the checks I would want an audit tool to do.
Well, I wanted to, so I've been doing it.
So far it's just HTML and CSS, but working on the project has already taught me a ton (in fact, the things I learned helped me get my personal site across the finish line over the past week or so), and I'm expecting to have it done in time to share the tool with my fellow campus-level techs.
The attached picture is what I've got so far. All the buttons are interactable but at the moment they don't do anything, the table is scrollable and handles any number of entries beautifully, and damnit I think the thing just looks nice.
Next steps are to make the modals. There will be five in total, being:
After that I can put together my scripts to translate Asset Tiger's get/post calls into my own data, and vice versa, and then I can plug everything into everything else. Hopefully the chaos of the school year's closing doesn't prevent me from having the time to do this (though I suspect that might be the case, in which case I already have GitLab set up and have already tested working on this at home).
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