Containers

Containers as a proposed new feature

The question is would it be useful to have container that can hold items, so the items can be assigned to containers and the containers can be assigned to people? This might be helpful if a team uses garment bags or tool boxes to hold items, or if there is a desire to track different locations where items may be stored (for instance, a closet can be a container). Containers could be checked out to users just like items - but they don't have to be.

The problem with having containers is a bunch of pages would get new options, etc. So there would be some loss of simplicity. Also, would containers have tags (like items), or would they have names (like members)? This affects how a container is accessed (via menu or typing in a string). Also containers would encourage people to do more work that might not be that necessary and would just make the tool a drag (especially since the check-out notes can serve a lot of the same purpose possibly with less extra work).

If you have a strong desire for this feature, let the developer (john@linstrum.net) know about it and we can talk.