Faster Login for Hosted Servers

As part of the e-Quip login process a large amount of configuration data is read from the database and cached. This has never really impacted performance (unless you have a very slow server) but has been a real nuisance for users with remotely-hosted servers. For...

Parkrun!

THIS is absolutely nothing at all to do with equipment management, but we all need to do something apart from staring at databases all day long, don’t we? I did used to have “hobbies” (i.e. ways of wasting time that you can’t afford to waste,...

Editing Templates

All e-Quip users probably know that job templates lie at the heart of the automated PPM scheduling mechanism. Broadly speaking, if a PPM schedule is a definition of a set of work instructions which need to be carried out at a specified interval, then a job template is...

Coming Soon – 3.3.0 Feature Preview

Work on version 3.3.0 is well underway and having just posted an article about the library changes I thought I would give you an update about what has gone into the next version so far: Loan screen redesign Pocket PC loan auditor Support for Office 2007 xlsx &...

The Pocket PC Loan Auditor

If you’re involved with an equipment library then you’ll know that stuff moves. You might loan something to Fred in Ward 1 and it might pretty soon end up with Doris in Ward 2. The obvious (although very expensive) solution is to use RFID to track your...