Custom Button in Asset Management

[Giuseppe Iannacone]

is there a way to have into the Asset Management a custom button with the serial number  variable available? (and generally speaking why we can have all the field as variables)

[James Ainsworth]

Hi @Giuseppe Iannacone

Great to see you using the custom buttons.  Then can be really useful.  I'll start with seeing about getting the serial number added.  It may depend on if this is part of the general fields.

You are right that it would be useful to have all the fields available.  Between the different classes of assets there are hundreds of these, so we would need to look into providing something that detects the class of asset and then load all the fields associated to that asset.  There will be some fields that wouldn't make sense such as anything containing long text strings like the description.

Regards,

James  

[Gerry]

@Giuseppe Iannacone

In regards to the question "and generally speaking why we can have all the field as variables", there are potentially hundreds of variables that *could* be included, it would be very inefficient to load all information into the browser "just in case" you make use of one value, this is why we have a pre-defined subset.  Just let us know what you need and we can update this.  If this list ultimately gets too big we would need to change the way it works. 

Gerry

[Giuseppe Iannacone]

@James Ainsworth Thank you for your reply, having the serial number available would be useful for us for sure.

@Gerry & @James Ainsworth now that you explained to me the reason why it sounds absolutely reasonable. Thank you.

[James Ainsworth]

Hi Giuseppe,

I was just reviewing this post from last year.  Since the original post we have added several more variables to the custom buttons, including the Serial Number.  Hope that helps.

Regards,

 

James

[Giuseppe Iannacone]

@James Ainsworth thank you very much for the follow-up. I really appreciate it