Bill create for purchases

[ryanmerolle]

If I were to order 200 sfps, it’s not ideal to either us the api ot ui to bulk create the items.

I think it would be useful to allow bulk creation of inventory items given a quantity, order number and inventory item type.

it could be useful to allow the same feature for marking items as used, but admittedly that is not tricky if inventory items have a serial.

[matejv]

We could do it the way netbox does for adding interfaces and other components. Some fields support a special syntax where you give a range of values and netbox creates an instance for each value in range. For example you could got to Add asset and in name field you'd specify sfp [1-200]. That would create 200 assets with names like sfp 1, spf 2... I think the following fields could support this syntax: name, asset_tag, serial.

Would that be acceptable?

Another way I suppose we could do is to have a separate form for bulk add with quantity field. Here you couldn't specify asset_tag or serial fields as these must be empty or unique (for a given inventoryitem type).

[ryanmerolle]

Either way works

[matejv]

I have implemented this in #24