DS Inventory Released

We are proud to announce that DeltaScripts Inventory Manager – or DS Inventory for short – is released. This is our first release on a new platform and it will be the foundation of our software to come. DS Inventory Manager is a very powerful asset and inventory software that lets you add any inventory of any type into a MariaDB-database. You install the program at a web host and your entire IT-department or other people may use it at the same time.

We have targeted it a bit against IT-departments, but it has unlimited support for extra fields, so it will work for most uses related to inventory management. IP Address list or software management is other uses for it.

For more information, visit our Inventory-page.

DS Inventory - Requirements

Inventory Manager can run on most shared webhosts. 99% of all shared plans have this.

1. PHP 7.X or PHP 5.6 on the webhost
2. IonCube
3. cURL-Support
4. MySQL 5.X or MariaDB

You can also rent hosting from us.

Our system takes very little resources.

If you have really many people working at same time, you should however consider a virtual or dedicated server.

DS Inventory - Manual

• Requirements
• Installing
• Creating Categories
• Creating inventory
• Extra Fields

Requirements

In order to install the program on your own server, you need these things installed.

1. PHP 7 and MariaDB (MySQL)
2. Linux Webserver
3. Debugging in php-turned off
4. IonCube-support
5. cURL-support

In most cases, this program can run on shared hosting platform. If you need hosting with service agreement, contact us and we can maintain the install and update it for you.

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Installing

Program is installed with a few easy steps. Download the zip to your local computer and upload all files to your webhost. Create a new database and user using cPanel, DirectAdmin or manually on a platform of your choice. Keep this information at hand during install.

Steps to install

1. Navigate to yourdomain.com/mng/install.php.
2. Accept terms and conditions by clicking Next.
3. State DB-user/password and DB-hostname, click Next.
4. If all is OK, click Next and you will be done.

These are two main screens you will see during install - only the important stuff is shown:   

 

If you receive any error-messages during this process, please contact support and do a screenshot. Admin-area will be at https://yourdomain.com/mng/ and default user/pass is "admin".

After login

We recommend you to create locations, categories, type of equipment (laptop, server, ipad etc) and a few tags before you add stuff. This is because it will pre filled values that is useful.  

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Creating Categories

The software should be fairly easy to use. The first time you log in, we suggest that you first create a category. A category can be whatever you want it to be, but for our example, we plan to have Desktop, Laptop and different categories like that.

Creating our first category

1. Click Categories in the left menu as shown on illustration below (1) - a form showing all your categories (if any) in a list to the right.
2. Click the button Create new.
3. Type the name of the new category and push Submit - you will get a confirmation.
4. Done.

 

Creating inventory, brands, locations, IP-address, people, tags etc. will follow the same path just described. Menu is always to the left and you always add a new inventory, category, brand etc. by pushing the Create new that is to the top right of the list everywhere. Easy? Yes, we hope so!

Introduction to tabs

Just to start easy, I will show you how tabs works. In this example, I just click pencil beside your category - just beside the red trash-can symbol. If you click on the tab named "Page 2", shown with the red number 1 in the picture below, you will get a lot of options in most screens. In this one, you just type in a font-awesome name and it will display a nice icon on the first page after you login. Just something to think about.

 

 

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Creating inventory

Creating Inventory

1. Click the menu item Inventory to the left (indicated by red number 1 below).
2. Click + Create new, indicated by the red number 2.
    
   
    
3. Now you are in a very powerful place! Please note that you have 5 pages on forms that you can optional fill out. Nothing is mandatory. If you have tags, just start typing the pre-setup tags you have added in advance. Tags needs to be already added before you can choose them.In Page 2, Page 3 etc, you choose brand and other useful information.
    
   

 

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Extra Fields

You can add unlimited so called Pages and Fields throughout our Inventory Manager application. The way we have programmed it, it is very database friendly so that you will not get a slow database after adding many fields. Please note that you do need to be careful when using this function, as it works directly against your database. This is because we want it user friendly and fast. For the more technical people: Pages = Table in the mysql-terminology. Fields = Columns. You can add both from our application, but in this section we only deal with the Fields/Columns.

Customize a list - like the main Inventory

1. Click Settings and then Fields - so you will get the opening screen similar to the screenshot below.
2. Let us say you want to hide the Brand field from showing up in your main list - just click the orange "invent"-button to filter the fields on only the inventory-table. Now click the pencil-symbol beside invent_brand_id and remove the "List sort"-number in the form.
3. Click Submit.
4. Now, the Brand-information will not be shown in the list on the front-page. It will still be there, just not in the list.

 

Adding a completely new field to Inventory-list

Say you want to add a...

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DS Inventory - Features

Highlighted features in the program. There are many features, but this are the top ones.

DS Inventory - Overview

DS Inventory Manager lets you maintain perfect inventory of computers, laptops, iPads, iPhones and other devices in a organization. It supports unlimited fields and is really fast and easy to use.

Keep track of where each laptop is and who is responsible for it. You can even change status of it or rent it out. The list of vendors can be unlimited and you can edit each screen in different tabs to keep the user interface nice and clean.

Inventory Manger can really be used to track ANY inventory – not just electronic devices.

DS Inventory Manger is made in PHP and can be installed locally or at any webhost by yourself for a low one-time fee.

Screenshots

Our system is designed to be easy to use and look good. It might look simple, but it can basically do everything related to inventory and lists for IT-management and service personel.

Top features in the program

Our most popular features we want to tell you about.

See more features on the Inventory Manager Features Page.

Usage scenarios

• In an IT-department in a business or a school
• IT-support in a global company
• Data Lab  in a teaching facility
• Business that needs to have inventory of their staffs laptop and devices
• Other places that needs simple inventory that can be expanded
• Replace Excel for simple lists
• Service department/manager at large complex
• It is so flexible, it’s impossible to list it all
• Inventory Lists for the office or insurance-company?

Database and extra fields

Each field you add is stored in a very normalized database-model. This means that your database will look good and easy to read even after hundred of thousands of records. In many other solutions, extra fields is stored in a limited way – in our solution, your extra-field is stored just like native coding would do it. Click here to see a screenshot of the DB-field-editor.

Language friendly

All strings in our inventory-sofware are stored from admin-area and you can override all of our translations – or just some – and search on them. When we release new translations, your own will be kept intact as long as you wish. If you are happy with our language, you can be kept updated about new strings and auto-updated.

IP Address List Manager

Keep a perfect IP-address list over your servers and network equipment in your organization. Each IP can be reserved and commented on – and of course attached to a device used or loaned by an employee. Why not keep a track over who owns what and get rid of IP-conflicts with low-cost software like this.

Tag every inventory

You can create as many tags as you want and this is more powerful than you might think. Your tags can be software, hardware, racks, servers, buildings, license and much, much more!

Made with the software we love

DS Inventory Manager is made for running on Linux/Apache with PHP 7 (PHP 5.6 works).  MariaDB (MySQL) is the database-storage solution for it. Program can run on even low-cost shared web hosting.

How to get it

Price is only EUR 279 per per domain.