Product Updates

A new template is available when generating asset tags for printing: Avery L4778. This template generates 45.7mm x 21.2mm tags, 48 per sheet. The template uses standard A4 sheets and is a polyester material that can be printed with a standard laser printer.

Avery L4778 labels can be purchased easily from multiple countries, including the UK, Australia and New Zealand.

Do you have a template you’d like to see added? Please let us know!

We’ve created a new field type called Age that can be added to any record that supports custom fields (e.g., Assets, People, Locations, Repairs, and Reservations).

This is our first Computed field, and we’re excited about the types of abilities we can unlock for our users using this concept in the future.

A computed field is one that does not directly hold any data, but instead uses data in other fields to generate a value. For Age fields, you specify another Date or DateTime field and it will calculate the difference between now and the related field’s value.

Assetbots supports specifying the unit of calculation (either days, weeks, months or years) as well as the direction (past or future).

Two common examples of using this field now ship with our Business and Technology templates:

1. Calculate the age of an asset, from when it was acquired until now, in years.
2. Calculate the amount of time remaining on an asset’s warranty, in months.

It’s super easy to create your own Age fields too:

1. Visit the list of records you want to create the field for (e.g., the Asset list), click the More actions menu button and select Edit asset fields.

2. In the Asset Fields dialog, click Add Field and select Age for Field Type.
3. Enter the name of the field (e.g., Warranty Remaining) and configure the age calculation for your scenario.

4. Click Save Field and you’re done! Feel free to drag your new field to a different spot in the field list.

Please let us know what other kinds of computed fields you’d like to see (we already have a number on our roadmap but would love your input too!).

Happy tracking!

Our asset tag designers now support generating traditional 1D barcodes for all our templates.

Customers have requested that we generate 1D barcodes so they can use our tag designer with their external barcode scanners, not all of which support 2D variants like QR codes.

We’re happy to support this update in our public designer as well as in-app.

To use the public designer, visit https://www.assetbots.com/asset-tags. Select Edit Tags and switch Tag type to Barcode. Click Done and your preview will be updated with 1D barcodes.

To use the in-app designer, visit the Reports tab, then choose Asset Tags. Switch Tag type to Barcode and then select the assets you want to print tags for.

We hope this update is helpful for your organization. If you have any questions, please contact us.

Happy tracking!

We’ve made adding assets with the scanner even faster. Scan any barcode or QR code on an asset that is not in your database and you will be prompted to add it. With this update, you will be immediately returned to the scanner again after adding the asset.

Even better: the next asset you add will remember the previously chosen category, so there are even less clicks if you’re adding a series of similar items.

Happy tracking!

During check-in, your users can mark items as in need of repair with one tap. If a repair is requested, they will be prompted for a description of the problem.

A new repair will be created with a status of Needs Repair. This will prevent those assets from being checked out again until the repair is completed or canceled.

Requesting repairs by kiosk is disabled by default. To enable, edit a kiosk definition and select Yes for Request Repairs?

Also shipping with this update is the ability to add assets if they are missing, right from a kiosk. To enable, edit a a kiosk definition and select Yes for Add Assets?

We're excited to announce the release of Reservations, which allow you to schedule your equipment bookings in advance.

Read the guide to learn more!

We delivered some helpful UI improvements to finish out the month. We hope they make your work with Assetbots a little easier!

Warranty Report Improvements

We’ve added the ability to view assets with expired/ended warranties in the Warranty Report. You can also export assets directly from the warranty report – either those with expired warranties or those with warranties ending soon.

Custom Table Column Ordering Per-View

You can now control the order of your table columns on a per-view basis. This means you can have one order for the “default” view and a different order for each filter. Even better, you can separate the order of your table columns from the order of your fields.

Previously, the only way to rearrange table columns was to reorder your fields in the Edit Fields dialog. This order is still the default for table views, but it can now be overridden.

Our new Table Columns editor is available in the More actions menu under Choose table columns as well as in the Columns tab of the Edit Filter dialog.

Select the columns you would like to display in the table, and they will be added to a new Columns section at the top of the list. Each column will have a gripper on the left you can use to drag and drop into your preferred order.

Specify Columns and Ordering in Person Asset Lists

When viewing the Assets and Check-In History tabs of a Person record, you now have the option to select and order which columns are displayed in the table. In the Assets tab you can select any available Asset or Checkout field, and in the Check-In History tab you can select any available Asset or Check-In field.

New Checkout Person and Checkout Location Columns Available in the Asset List

We’ve made two new columns available for selection in the main asset list: Checkout Person and Checkout Location. These should help you quickly see who has custody of assets that are checked out without having to navigate to any other views.

Allow Kiosk Users to Add and Edit People During Checkout

You can now configure your kiosks to allow for adding people to your database during checkout. This is especially useful if you have team members using the kiosk to checkout assets to customers, not all of whom are already added to your database.

That’s it for October – happy tracking!

You can now customize signature request emails to your borrowers during checkout, including instructions and attachments.

Read the how-to guide to learn more!

A new template is available when generating asset tags for printing: Avery 64x26-R. This template generates 64mm x 26.7mm tags, 30 per sheet, and is our first template to use standard A4 sheets. There are multiple paper and material options available, and these should be easier to purchase if you are outside the US.

We are excited to include this additional template in our in-app Asset Tags report as well as our free asset tags designer.

Do you have a template you’d like to see added? Please let us know!

We now support searching across every field from the omnibar (the search box at the top of every screen that says Search for anything). We also support our full search and filter syntax from here, where previously we only supported fuzzy text search.

Here are some pro-tips you can use when searching for things in Assetbots:

• apple to fuzzy-search for “apple”. Use quotes to fuzzy-search for multiple words like “macbook pro”.
• =LP-RX3B3GTO to search for exactly “LP-RX3B3GTO”. Use quotes for exact-search with multiple words like =”macbook pro”.
• Search a specific field using its key with a colon (you can find a field’s key in the Edit Fields dialog). For example, to search the Serial Number field for “12345”, you could use serialNumber:12345 or serialNumber:=12345 for an exact search.
  • ^mac to search for values that start with “mac”.
  • pro$ to search for values that end with “pro”.
  • Separate terms with a pipe to combine with or rather than and. For example, to search for “broken or lost”, use =broken | =lost.

We hope this update makes finding records in Assetbots even easier. Happy tracking!