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Roundabout DB Documentation

A OOI-CGSN / WHOI project

What is Roundabout DB?

Roundabout DB is a web application for handling circular inventory tracking and management. It's geared towards oceanographic/scientific projects where a group may have an engineering inventory of many different parts that are used repeatedly and sent to many different locations. It does this by allowing the user to create templates that describe their "Parts" and then a tree of "Locations" that match their working environment. Individual "Inventory" items can then be created in the application using these Part templates, and assigned to different Locations to track their real-world status.

It also allows users to create "Assembly" templates or blueprints that describe how these various individual inventory items can be assembled into a complete "Build" or final product such as a ROV, Mooring, Vehicle, Widget, etc. A real-world Build can then be created in RDB, and used to track what Inventory items are used to construct it. This Build can then be "Deployed" to the field to track its field time, field time of all its Inventory items, actions while deployed, etc. A Build can be Deployed multiple times, and individual Inventory items can be swapped on or off the Build as needed.

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