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Jira Insight (Assets) allow attribute to include child object types

Matt

In setting up an Object Schema in Jira Insight, I would like to be able to select child object types in an attribute field.

For example, I have an Object Type called "Location", which will be an abstract parent. There will be three child types called: Desk, Off Site, and Server Room. Each of these are separate types of locations, but all indicate where an asset can be located. In my "Computer" object type, I would like to have an attribute called "Location" which has a Type of "Object", and set it to the parent object type "Location".

After setting this up, I can only select Location objects in this field. What I want is to be able to select a Desk, Server Room, or Off Site location.

Is this possible?

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Computer Attribute

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Accepted answers

Mikael Sandberg

No, the attribute reference can only be a 1-to-1 relation, so you cannot set the attribute to reference Desk, Server Room or Off Site, you have to pick one of the three. And you if you would create the location as an abstract object schema your reference cannot use that to pick objects, it would show up as an empty list.

Rick Westbrock

TL;DR enable the "Include Children" option in the object attribute in order to select objects from child object types.

I have the same use case for locations where my Site object type is abstract and I have three child object types.

Below you can see the object type and its children:

Below is a list of objects in my Person class where the Site Object object attribute is configured for the Site abstract object type and you can see there is a mix of Club and Corporate Office objects:

All comments

Mikael Sandberg

Matt

@Mikael Sandberg thanks so much for the response. Do you know of any other way to handle this type of situation? The two less-than-ideal solutions I can think of are:

Do not group the different types of locations, just make them all as a "Location" object. Possibly include a naming convention prefix.
Keep the 3 sub-types of location and create 3 attributes on the asset to specify where it is located.

Thanks again.

Mikael Sandberg

I would probably go with your first option, and either use a label or a prefix like you suggested.

Matt

@Mikael Sandberg by "label" do you mean another attribute on the object type, or is there a label feature that I'm missing? Thanks.

Rick Westbrock

TL;DR enable the "Include Children" option in the object attribute in order to select objects from child object types.

I have the same use case for locations where my Site object type is abstract and I have three child object types.

Below you can see the object type and its children:

Matt

This is great, I don't know how I missed this. Thank you :-)

Rick Westbrock

No problem, as I recall I ended up having to raise a Support case and the agent pointed out I hadn't enabled that option.

James Clinch_rjqlmy

Thanks Rick and mnd. I had the exact same issue and this solved it for me too.

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