Here's the page I made to let me do it. Let me know if you have any questions. It's just a page I hacked up though...It's nothing special. I'm sure there is probably a better way to do it using built in OA functions, etc. However, it does the job for me...and hopefully can help someone else.
A quick note though. For this to work, you need to create a table in the openaudit database called "other_types" and that table needs to at least have a field called "other_types_name" . And you need to manually add/remove type names to that table ( Yeah, I was too lazy to make another page/form to do that yet
). I did this to keep consistency with how people enter other items at my job. It would be pretty easy to change it to make it so people just manually enter the type instead.
Also, I have it so people need to enter a type, serial, and location...otherwise it will refuse to add the item. It also will check for duplicate serial numbers.
Hope this helps.