Datasheet URL for parts
RX14 opened this issue · comments
This would be nice, could even automate it from for example a farnell part number, or a TI part name cause they have consistent URLs
The last bit could be a bit flakey though so it's best to use that as an autocomplete
The URL is likely to bitrot over time though, knowing manufacturers
Would using the part attachment and giving an URL works ?
IIRC it's possible to do that with the django upload thing, just not implemented in frontend.
I'd rather store URLs which will always go to the latest datasheet revision than reupload PDFs
it could be possible to generate a link if there is a part manufacturer == TI or part distributor == farnell, if generating a link with only the SKU is possible. if not that would have to be done with a supplementary URL field to any of thoses.
Yeah, I think it's best to do something like store a URL field for datasheets, but auto-fill the field if you entered a manufacturer or distributor with a known URL pattern
often you have to knock a few digits off the end of the part number to get the datasheet from TI etc, so it's more useful to have these as a completion aid...
Ok for TI URLs are like
https://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/bq2970.pdf
https://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/lp38691.pdf
so it's not much of an issue to "auto generate" them
however, for farnell they seems to be an ID unrelated to the SKU of manufacturer or farnell :(
So that's what I was thinking about.
Handled placeholders are {sku} and _lower or _upper, thoses ones are auto-set from the manufacturer sku, there is also {_} which does nothing.
Demo video: https://tube.otter.sh/videos/watch/d7931549-8996-45c4-abbb-864caa4c6fc4
Does that correspond to what you need ?
Yeah that's awesome! Thanks