- Replace the device-image label background bar and text-shadow with
NetBox's own technique: a black-stroke pass behind a white-fill pass
of the same text, giving crisp readable labels over any image
without a dark box behind them.
- Add an "Images and labels / Images only / Labels only" selector
above the elevation, mirroring the equivalent control on real NetBox
rack elevations. The plain label is always in the markup; the
selector only toggles the image and its over-image label, exactly
like core NetBox does it. Choice persists per browser via
localStorage and works without edit permissions.
- Add a "Merge into concept" button to the real dcim Rack list: select
two racks via the existing bulk-select checkboxes and it forwards
them to the concept-merge page, pre-filled. New
deploy.merge_racks_to_concept() combines two real racks' devices
directly into one new, stacked blueprint without an intermediate
per-rack copy step.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Fix elevation rendering bug: device blocks were drawn MARGIN px
further right than the rack frame/unit slots, causing them to
overlap and extend past the right border. All three now share one
RACK_X origin.
- Show the device type's front/rear image inside each elevation block
(clipped to the block, translucent label bar on top for legibility)
when one is set on the device type; falls back to a plain colour
block with text otherwise.
- Add "Merge" action to combine two concepts into one taller one (e.g.
two half-height racks stacked into a full-height rack): the top
concept's devices are shifted up by the bottom concept's height,
neither source is modified. Available from the plugin menu, from a
concept's detail page, and via POST /concepts/merge/.
- Copying a real rack into a concept can now target a different width,
height and/or starting unit than the source rack; devices that no
longer fit at the chosen size are skipped and reported as warnings
instead of aborting the copy.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
DRF's RelatedField asserts queryset is not None (unless read_only) at
__init__ time, i.e. when the class body of the Serializer is
evaluated - not when the field is later used. The previous code passed
queryset=None and tried to patch it in the serializer's own __init__,
which never ran in time because construction of the field itself
already raised. Pass the real querysets directly at class-body level
instead, matching the standard DRF/NetBox pattern; the deferred
per-instance model imports are no longer needed since serializers are
only imported once all apps are ready anyway.
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ButtonColorChoices is defined in netbox/netbox/choices.py, not
utilities/choices.py (which only has the generic ChoiceSet base).
Cross-checked every other NetBox-internal import in the plugin against
the actual v4.6.8 source (dcim, netbox, tenancy, utilities packages)
to rule out further path mistakes; all others were already correct.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
PluginConfig._load_resource() prepends self.__module__ (already
'netbox_rack_concept') to the configured path, so 'menu' and
'template_extensions' must be given relative to the plugin package
('navigation.menu', 'template_content.template_extensions'), not
prefixed with 'netbox_rack_concept.' again. The prefixed form made
Django try to import 'netbox_rack_concept.netbox_rack_concept...',
which doesn't exist, crashing manage.py on every command.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Introduces a NetBox 4.6 plugin for planning rack layouts (RackConcept,
ConceptDevice) without creating real dcim.Rack/dcim.Device objects, so
blueprints never appear in rack/device lists, utilization reports, or
IPAM.
Features:
- Copy paths: real rack -> concept, concept -> concept (clone), and
concept -> one or more real racks (deploy, with name patterning and
dry-run support)
- Manual concept creation via a dedicated "Rack Concepts" nav menu
- Tenant and tenant group assignment on concepts and planned devices
- Partial-width device placement (1/1-1/4) with slot-based collision
detection, matching netbox_utilities' partial-width feature
- Custom drag-and-drop elevation (netbox-reorder-rack operates on real
Device querysets, which concepts don't have) with server-side
validation of every move
- Full REST API, filtering, CSV import, bulk edit, search integration
- Optional, config-driven interop with netbox_utilities (partial-width
field mapping) and netbox-reorder-rack, degrading gracefully when
either plugin is absent
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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