New Feature Request

[lookme2]

I have been adding parts to InvenTree. I use Molex connectors often and I think it would be nice to be able to link two or more parts together. Like for example the Molex connector with the crimp pin.

[a7hybnj2]

Yea, a “related part”, “associated part” would be nice. I think you could do this in the short term by putting it in the notes or if you wanted to mess with it you could have a “crimped molex” part that is a build of the conn + pins parts

[eeintech]

@lookme2 @a7hybnj2 In pursuit of this feature, I've created #1048

Please take a look and let me know if that looks like what you expected.

[lookme2]

@eeintech this looks great. I'll try to pull that down and give it a try sometime this week.

[sintech]

Static linking is good, but what about dynamic(automatic) linking?

For example 74-series ICs of different types have the same logic inside: 7400, 73LS00, 74ALS00, 74HC00. It would be nice if all variants of 74*00 were displayed as variant of each other.
Another example: in Russia we have variants of 74-series under different name 7400=К155ЛА3, 74LS00=К555ЛА3, etc.

I'm thinking about dynamic links based on regexp or match table.
Does that make sense?

[eeintech]

@sintech For your example I suggest you use Part "Variants", see documentation.

If you want to automate variant creation, I suggest you take a look into the API and/or the Python Interface.
I do believe the logic driving "links" between parts should reside outside of InvenTree.

[eeintech]

@lookme2 Were you able to try it? Any feedback?

[lookme2]

@eeintech sorry I have not. I've been very busy the last couple of weeks. I'll try to take a look by the end of the week.

[lookme2]

@eeintech I did a git pull this morning and I don't see the related parts tab. Is there something I need to setup for that?

[eeintech]

@lookme2 Which branch did you pull?

[lookme2]

@eeintech The Master branch

[eeintech]

@lookme2 Ha it's not in master yet.

Try this:

$ git remote add eeintech https://github.com/eeintech/InvenTree.git
$ git fetch eeintech
$ git checkout -b related_parts
$ git pull eeintech related_parts

[lookme2]

@eeintech I had a chance to look at this over the weekend. Very nice. Thanks!!!

[eeintech]

@lookme2 Glad to hear! I'll ask @SchrodingersGat to review and merge 👍