How to add new field to part and display in near description in part details?

[mikelemo]

I have the newest version of inventree bare metal install and I try to add a new field to part called my_datasheet now so far "pooping it" it along side "description" parameter among files like /home/inventree/src/src/backend/InvenTree/part/models.py and /home/inventree/src/src/frontend/src/tables/part/PartTable.tsx
and /home/inventree/src/src/frontend/src/pages/part/PartDetail.tsx yielded this TADA:

of cource i ran python /home/inventree/src/src/backend/InvenTree/manage.py makemigragions and
python /home/inventree/src/src/backend/InvenTree/manage.py migrate and verifiying with pgadmin4 I saw it created the variable my_datasheet in SELECT * FROM public.part_part

what should be done to achieve this? also interested in adding this to the edit part and create new part dialogs, any directions?

[mikelemo]

Did manage to read the field from the data base and display it here and in new part and edit by adding the field to api.py in the backend:

But it doesn't display the titles right... what could be the source?

[mikelemo]

Setting up your own version of InvenTree

well this sounds like open source to me I don't get the whole envy of me trying to get things working properly and upgrading the app to something that could actually be useful based on public property.
maybe if your dev team director wouldn't make it so hard to develop the app the old developers'd have much more time to deal with more productive less repetitive things and the new to come'd actually be able to get things up and running smoothly to be able to wrap their heads around to contribute...

[matmair]

https://github.com/inventree/InvenTree/blob/master/LICENSE You are not owed support for developing your private fork.
We are developing this in our spare time, there is no dev team director.

The next impolite and demanding message gets you an org wide block; we are already thinly spread without doing unpaid consulting

[miggland]

Hey guys, take a deep breath..

@mikelemo has not stated that he's trying to make his own fork, or something he intends to keep for himself.. everybody needs to start somewhere before they can contribute back.

Also, this is Github discussions.. posting here does not come with the expectation that anyone is owed support.. it must be possible to ask questions without being threatened with a ban.

@mikelemo maybe you could describe what you're trying to achieve in a bit more detail, and then maybe you can get more useful pointers..

[mikelemo]

Wierdly people think they can start a project classified as open source get help from the community progressing it and then distopically claim the whole project is their's... that's not quite how open source works and if someone doesn't want to give a hand they are welcome not to.
I was pretty sure my question is quite straight forward and simple gateway to alter, understand and enchance the app functionality which is just add another field to a part (both backend and frontend) which I got there most of the way by myself and expected to get an answer like

1. fist go to frontend folder part models.py add x there then go to serialization.py and add that and then go to /home/inventree/src/src/frontend/src/pages/part/PartDetail.tsx and near x edit y then do python manage.py makemigration and migrate
invoke dev.translate etc...
   Only thing I have left to do is change the icon from question mark to something else but can't find any trace of icon there in the frontend dir

[matmair]

@miggland appreciate you volunteering to handle this kind of repeated positive and good-intentioned communication in the future.

Welcome back to triaging issues in this kind of environment. I am not interested in spending my free time working with this kind of language and have turned off subscriptions now. Great work on PUI and dependency maintenance btw.

[mikelemo]

BTW the last thing you need to change to get another field in part details for the icon is to add the keyword and choose a tabler icon: https://tabler.io/icons something like in '/home/inventree/src/src/frontend/src/functions/icons.tsx':

const icons = {
  name: IconPoint,
  description: IconInfoCircle,
  my_datasheet: IconBuildingFactory2,
  datasheet: IconBuildingFactory2,
  variant_of: IconHierarchy,
  revision_of: IconStatusChange,

...
}

just have to bypass the translate to update view crap for smoother development and feed back and we're good to go though it seem like it could've been easier and faster to bring it from zero to the ground up, with that attitude thanks for nothing.