Reftab Blog

This week you will notice a new field type added to the categories page called “Pre-populated List”. This is a field type that will allow you to pre-define selections that will appear in a drop-down list when a user creates a new asset or edits a new asset.

We had a few asks lately over a field that could be used to set true / false or condition & service statuses of assets. So we built a system that could be customizable to fit both needs.

Over the next couple of days the iTunes App Store and Google Play Store will have the latest updated app that includes support for these new field types.

Lastly, you may see the ability to print barcodes from a locations page.  We are doing a rolling release of barcode printing ability to support more customization which we will be actively working on this week.

The Reftab mobile has been updated this week to include support for barcodes. With this new update you can scan linear barcodes that use numbers only (In the future we’ll support letters and numbers).

We’ve also changed the app so that you can scan QR-codes and barcodes that have been generated by other programs. However, you still need an asset in your Reftab account that uses the asset number you’re scanning. In other words, this means that you no longer have to print barcodes from the Reftab site in order to scan them. If you have pre-made barcodes and QR-codes on your assets already, you can continue to use them without having to replace them with a new code, you just need to import those assets into your Reftab account.

With that said, we are going to release an update to the Reftab site that will allow you to print bar codes for your assets. Stay tuned for that if you require barcode printing support, it is coming soon.

Enjoy!

Hello!

This past weekend we launched some great new updates to our service. Due to the many requests we get in, one of the major updates was a new “loanees” page. This page stores a list of people you want to check out assets to, called loanees. This makes it easier and more accurate to check out assets to the same people. Also, from within this page you can click on any loanee’s name and view current assets they have checked out.

If you had an account set up prior to this update, anyone you’ve ever checked out an asset to will be automatically added to this new loanee page. However, only assets checked out from this update forward will show as currently checked out when you click on a loanees name, but they will still appear on the loans page.

Other updates we’ve made:
– The UI got a complete overhaul.
– You can view all “in” assets from the Loans page instead of having to create a report.
– We’ve added a site tour for new users.

And lastly, we’ve updated our Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy. Please take a moment to read it over.

We’ve got more updates in the works to bring new features and better functionality to our users. As always, feel free to email us any requests, we always strive to build the best product for your needs.

Thanks!

We’ve recently launched one of our newest, and most important feature: exporting assets. This allows you to export your entire list of assets into an Excel sheet. It works beautifully and is super easy to use.

This saved a friend of mine from doing a ton of extra work recently. He works in IT and had to go to one of his client sites to help re-inventory their computers. He had to put new asset tags on each computer and document the serial number. Without Reftab he would of had to do all this by hand. Since he already had an excel sheet of all the equipment, I told him of a way he could use Reftab to help him out.

First, he uploaded the excel sheet into Reftab. This  allowed him to scan each asset and view each computer’s serial number on his phone. Then, as he was putting new asset tags on each computer, he would simply edit the information by adding in the new asset tag number. Once completed he then exported all the assets into Excel which now included the new asset tag numbers with each computers serial number.

This killed two birds with one stone by allowing him to update the asset information while he was in front of each computer putting new tags on them. Otherwise, he would have had to write down the information on paper and then transfer it into an Excel sheet.

I’m happy that already this could help someone out!

This week I was getting a new employee set up with a desktop. I had to find a computer in this room:

I wanted to find a desktop that had 8GB of RAM. That would not have been too fun if i had to turn on the computers individually, or had to look up each serial number. So all I did was scanned the machines with the Reftab app until I found what I needed. Which all took under a couple minutes.

See that computer above with the red circle around it? There’s a white label with an asset number on it. I scanned that and found the following information:

I changed the information around so I could post this to our blog. But what made this so easy was that all the information was right there for me. I also needed to assign this new desktop to the new employee, all i did was edit the field “User” that you see above. Now everyone in the office knows who this computer belongs to.

There are two things that really make this incredible:

1) First, the asset number labels on each of the devices had been there from our old inventory system. I just imported that into Reftab and automatically hundreds of asset information was at my fingertips.

2) Second, my job of updating our inventory took seconds. Literately seconds to both look up and finish updating our office inventory. It is no longer a hassle now to keep inventory up-to-date!

Thanks for reading!

 

Hello,

We’re actively working on some cool new stuff to make Reftab even better!

One of the major things is an overhaul on our mobile app. We’ve recently been developing in angular JS and ionic frameworks to bring you an improved mobile app experience. Stay tuned for a release on that.

Second is another field type which is “currency”. This is an addition to our other two which are “text” and “list”.  We’re adding this to be more flexible with asset types and fields in an effort to make monitory field types more reliable.

Lastly, we’re going to be updating our report abilities! We’ll have more features that come along with that, but I’ll leave that for another blog post.

Stay tuned and remember, reach out to us for any questions at: info@reftab.com.

Best!
Mike