Types are confusingly named

[ramdyne]

Types, classes, what?

[ramdyne]

Note that the whole types thing is a mess. A hardcoded set of types that then point to a table? Why?

How to improve?

[vandenzel]

Where? Mongo and Python are more or less dynamically typed, aren't they?

Or do you mean type of machine (like "computer" or "printer", more "category" than "class" or "type"). Could be free text in the mongo documents, but selected from a pulldown, with the option to add a new value, which will appear the next time the pulldown is used.

[ramdyne]

Checkout museumdbtypes.py