Table to Track Individual Items in Quantity (Serialization / Deployment / Repair Status / etc.)

[arretx]

A basic example:

You purchase 5 ESP32CAM boards with cameras and increase your stock accordingly.

Now, you build something with them using various sensors and what not. You flash them with specific software and deploy them. They have a purpose, or multiple purposi. ;).

You build two more. One has a broken antenna lead, but that's okay because it's close enough to the router, so it doesn't need an antenna, but you'd like to note that on just this one.

All have been deployed, but you have a question about one of them. "What did I flash it with? What is the IP Address? What components or versions of components did I use in THIS particular build?"

As I build something using a component that has a unique characteristic, like a MAC Address, I need to be able to note that, as that component may or may not be repurposed in the future.

You can see that having a serialized table of individual items would be a great enhancement, whereby the sum of all parts with XX as the item number would yield the stock value for the item itself.

Just an idea...and probably not a new one.

[christianlupus]

As you have mentioned yourself, PK is mainly intended for saving equal items. There were multiple requests of similar structure in the recent past on the IRC channel. Such a large change needs the big issue of the outdated symfony framework #1083, #1155 be solved.