Link 'Vendor' to Tenant with Contacts

[PieterL75]

Plugin version

v1.1.6

NetBox version

v4.3.0

Feature type

Data model extension

Proposed functionality

Allow the 'Vendor' to be linked to a Tenant, and select the contacts from that Tenant

Use case

the Tenant model allows me to manage the information of the Vendor with more details.
It also allows me to re-use the Tenant in other parts of NetBox .
The contacts are handy to know how to contact the vendor

Database changes

No response

External dependencies

No response

[jsenecal]

Hi @PieterL75, would you mind explaining a bit more your usecase ? You want Tenants (Users of netbox objects) to be assigned to a Vendor (third party entity, most likely completely unknown to your infrastructure)?

I think the better approach here would be to leverage the now supported (v4.3.x) ContactsMixin, which allows the assignment of Contacts to a model (via ContactAssignment).

Let us know if this makes sense to you.

[PieterL75]

I also keep track of my vendors in the tenant section. It just a general list in my usage.
(Vendor, customer, internal customers, suppliers,... Their are all in there)

The goal of the fr is too be able to link such a tenant object to the lifecycle vendor field. So that you can easily click and go to the details of that vendor, including the contacts, documents,...