Resources

How your instruments and equipment are organised. The three form a tree: a category holds groups, and a group holds the resources themselves.

Resource Categories

The top of the tree, and deliberately broad: Percussion, Strings.

A category also carries its type, which decides what is worth recording about anything in it:

Instrument, Equipment, Costume, Sheet Music, License, Service and Misc.

The type matters more than it looks. An instrument has a make, a model and a value; a costume or a piece of sheet music does not. Changing a resource's type clears the details that no longer apply, so nothing keeps a previous type's fields.

Resource Groups

Within a category: Violin and Cello belong to Strings.

The group is the level activities point at, so a beginners' violin activity can draw an instrument from the Violin group without naming a particular one.

Resource Locations

Where resources are kept.

A location is set on the resource itself, so it records where something lives rather than who currently has it — the store room it returns to, not the pupil holding it this term. Who has it is recorded separately, by assigning it.