@TMatsuya 8234910 apsb Thank you for submitting your question to our community!

You can set the location when you check in devices. You can change this location as needed for those new devices. 

Additionally, you can always write a rule to adjust the verification - it should work either with batch check-in/out or basic. Additionally, you could add a rule that when a device is checked in to change, unassign the location. 

Your workaround would be a rapid scan if it is not updating. I hope this helps  

@Kathryn Carter I guess I should have included a screenshot, what you included there is what I was talking about. That dropdown sets the storage location, it doesn’t actually change the location of the device. In the screenshot below, you can see that when I used the batch check in to try to change the location from “Stock” to one of our other sites, it only set the location under “Storage Information” to Sorrento Distribution Center, but the location of the device (and what shows up in our views) is still the “Stock” location. Like I said, we’re currently using the rapid scan feature which works well enough, but it kind of defeats the purpose of the batch check in feature if we can’t use it to change location. Not to mention, it would be faster for us to use that method.

@TMatsuya 8234910 apsb Thanks for being patient with my reply! I have been thinking about a good solution for you and I think I found one. 

You can assign the location each time a device comes in. Now, it would be setting up a rule for each location, but I think it might help at least get those main devices to the correct location. If the storage location is ____, then assign the location to ___. 

Thoughts?

I agree that this should be an feature when checking in a device at a location instead of creating a rule for every location (over 50 at our site). We used Follett before iiQ and when a staff member checked in a device at a location it was not assigned to, it poped up a warning “This device is assigned to X location do you want to move it to XX Location?” Since students dont always turn in their device before transferring, this help catch devices that needed to be sent back to their origional location. If staff member said yes to this pop up, it updated the device to the new location automatically. 

Thank you @JConnors 657bfbe wcpsmd for your feedback! 

@Kathryn Carter Sorry, I missed your previous reply. We thought about the rule setup, but that still (unless we were doing something wrong) set the storage location as well. That’s not a big deal, but we prefer not having unnecessary info in each asset’s details. The rapid scan/device filtering option works well enough for now so we’ll keep using that. Thank you though!

@JConnors 657bfbe wcpsmd We used Follet before as well; honestly a lot of things that I struggle with when it comes to IIQ is because I was used to the way Follet worked. Those things I feel are more efficient, but at the same time IIQ is definitely more efficient in other ways.

Hello, 

@Kathryn Carter I am with @TMatsuya 8234910 apsb, I would like the same inventory request and not having to set up a rule for each of our locations would be preffered. We want the location to change for inventory as well. The batch check in holds the building location and we do not use the storage feature. If a device moves from one school to the next, and checking it into that location would be the best. @TMatsuya 8234910 apsb explained it best in the intial question. We have no way of knowing now how many devices are sitting at each school. 

Thoughts on how we can make this happen?

Thank you @TMatsuya 8234910 apsb and @Tammy Forby for your additional feedback. At this time, this would be a feature request submitted through our Idea Exchange. 

I just added it, for anyone who wants to upvote it: 

@TMatsuya 8234910 apsb I agree with everything you say and how you want to use. I find it hard to believe that we are the only that would this feature to be automatic and not have to set up a bunch of rules to make it work effecitiently for us. 

@JConnors 657bfbe wcpsmd I also agree with your statements regarding how Destiny worked and would hope that IIQ could be more automatic for us as end users to use and manage our inventory.

@Kathryn Carter any chance your development team could work on making this more automatic without requiring end users to set up a bunch of rules and add more steps to work in IIQ?  It would make mananging our inventory more accurate. Thank you.

@Tammy Forby I will pass that feedback onto our Product Team.