Underlay an ImageAttachment from the base Location when rendering the SVG

[glennmatthews]

Environment

• nautobot-floor-plan version: 0.9

Proposed Functionality

Nautobot provides the ability to upload and associate images to a Location as ImageAttachments. It would be really nice if we could select a specific one of these attachments (e.g., a blueprint) to associate to the FloorPlan and have the SVG rendering of the FloorPlan overlay the tiles atop this image.

Known challenges this would pose:

• Would need to be able to easily adjust the position and scale of the image relative to the rendered grid (some sort of grab-and-drag feature in the UI?)
• LIkelihood that a constant grid as we have now would not align well with different parts of a blueprint (e.g. offset rows, racks oriented north/south versus east/west needing different grid alignment, etc.)

Use Case

Improved usability

[rlad78]

This would be very very much appreciated by organizations such as my own that work with a large number of buildings and desire a centralized way to keep track of network closet and device locations.

LIkelihood that a constant grid as we have now would not align well with different parts of a blueprint (e.g. offset rows, racks oriented north/south versus east/west needing different grid alignment, etc.)

Would it be feasible to introduce an additional "coordinate" option instead? Something akin to how comments work on a PDF, where a symbol is placed on a coordinate and mousing over the symbol reveals the contents? I'm not sure myself if it's a good idea, as it seems like it goes outside the original scope of this plugin, but I wanted to throw it out there as an idea.

Either way, I'm definitely willing to contribute to this if there's a solid direction to take. Still getting my feet wet with Django view templates, but this would be a great chance to get that practice in.