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Automatic location "following" for attached equipment

At present equipment can be attached to other equipment.  The section of Spectrum Help that deals with attachments uses tractors and trailers as an example of what this is used for; my usage would differ somewhat, but the attachment should be recording items being physically together and/or used together.  After attaching equipment (let it be called secondary equipment for this explanation) to another piece of equipment (let it be called primary equipment here), one can only see this connection by looking under the attachments under properties of the primary piece of equipment.  I am unaware of this attachment showing itself anywhere else.  Because of this, a secondary piece of equipment can be requisitioned without even noticing that it's supposed to be attached. 

I am proposing that attachment should function similar to a requisition.

  1. This would mean that when looking up a secondary item, it would show the same location as the primary piece of equipment. 
  2. When a primary item is requisitioned or returned, all of its attachments should "follow" in terms of location.  This would save needing to individually requisition smaller items; even more importantly, this would allow field workers to simply check that a primary item has its attachments and report one primary item (ease of use for field workers improves method compliance).  
  3. If an attempt is made to requisition a secondary item away from its primary item, there should be some type of notification of what's happening. This would mirror the pop-up that comes when one tries to requisition an item that was previously requisitioned and not returned.
  4. Finally, the Software Support Analyst that I have discussed this with before suggested that there should be an "Attached Equipment Report" added along with the rest. 
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  • Nov 7 2019
Company The Witmer Group
Job Title / Role Equipment Coordinator
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