Feature Request / Grouping Packages for Administration

Hello,

we would like to propose another “admin UI” feature request:
We have many different packages for different purposes:
a) private memberships
b) company memberships (with sub-categories like edu, startups, …)
c) permission to drinks
d) credits
e) “flag packages” for easy search of groups

so when our admins are opening the “https://fabman.io/manage/{account}/configuration/packages
overview, they are overwhelmed by the long list and it looks chaotic, with the alphabetic sorting and without any grouping.

It would be such a nice feature, to be able to group packages just for viewing and selecting for our administrators. Is this possible?

Thanks in advance and also thanks for the continuous improvements of the system!
Sebastian (Grand Garage)

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Hey Sebastian,

I agree that the package list can become unwieldy when you have lots of different package categories. I’ll see what we can do about that.

Can you tell me more about your “flag packages”? Do I understand it correctly that this is a hack to group members into certain categories? What kind of groups do you create and why? In which situation do you need to search for those “flag packages”?

Hi,

sorry for late reply -
yes, we use that “flag” package to group members.
we use it for
a) easy search & grouping members, who are from a specific company, university, etc and
b) to keep member & company connected, when the company doesn’t pay for everything:
for example we have a school, where the membership is paid by the school, but the machine costs have to be paid by the students. The “paid for by” option can’t be set in this case and the student would have a generic package for access (“Basic Membership”), we would loose the connection to the school, so we use packages (without any price or permission) to group & identify members. I hope this is somehow understandable.

Thanks for the explanation!

We’ve just added a quick filter that searches in packages’ name, description, and notes. I hope that helps a bit:

Nice improvement! Yes it is helpful. Still some hierarchy for package would be a nice-to-have.
Thanks,
Sebastian

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