Skip to end of banner
Go to start of banner

Search functions

Skip to end of metadata
Go to start of metadata

You are viewing an old version of this page. View the current version.

Compare with Current View Page History

« Previous Version 15 Next »


We are happy to introduce search functions. First functions are to filter assets by referenced assets. More functions will be added later.

referenceAsset

This feature is introduced at AIP v7.0.1.


referenceAsset function lets you to filter assets by referenced assets value. For example there is Computer asset which has Mouse reference asset. You can filter all Computers having Mouse that assigned to a user such as current, reporter, assignee or a specific user.

You can use this function at Basic Search of Asset Navigator for "Asset List" or "Asset List by Asset Type" type of attributes.

Field names are case sensitive.

SyntaxreferenceAsset("FIELD NAME 1", "VALUE 1", "FIELD NAME 2", "VALUE 2", ..)
Supported fields"Asset List", "Asset List by Asset Type"
DescriptionField name and value pairs are expected. Number of parameters should be an even number.


Examples:

Field name to queryDescriptionExamples

Text Based System Fields:

  • Asset Tag = asset.assetTag
  • owner = asset.owner
  • Serial Number = asset.serialNumber
  • Invoice Number = asset.invoiceNumber


Text Based Attributes (User defined fields):

  • Text
  • Text Area
  • IP
  • IPv6
  • URL

Use exact field name for attributes. Field names are case sensitive

Query with free text. 

If the text have any double quotes, they must be escaped, i.e: "My \"text\" here". 

Wildcard search is supported, see: Asset Navigator#SearchforWildcardTextSearches for more details.

Query exact match (surrounded with double quotes) with one text based system field Asset Tag:
    referenceAsset("asset.assetTag", "\"marla singer\"")


With Serial Number:
    referenceAsset("asset.serialNumber", "\"my serial\"")


Query with 3 different type of field values at a time. First Name is a Text field, Jira User is a Jira Single User Select field and Cities is a checkbox field:
    referenceAsset("First Name", "marla", "Jira User", "tyler", "Citites","Ada")


Query for surname that have word starts with te. This applies for all text based fields.
    referenceAsset("Surname", "te*")


Query for a url with exact match:
    referenceAsset("URL", "\"https://snapbytes.com/\"")

User based System Fields:

  • assigne = asset.assignee
  • owner = asset.owner
  • managed by = asset.managedBy
  • reserved for = asset.ReservedFor


User based Attributes (User defined fields):

  • Jira Single User Select
  • Jira Multiple Users Select

Use exact field name for attributes. Field names are case sensitive


Query with user name or user key.


Variables:

Following variables are available:

  • $currentUser: Current logged-in user
  • $reporter: Issue's reporter or current logged-in user when reporter not found. $reporter is the value of issue reporter field at issue edit/create screens (not linked asset-issues reporter.)
  • $assignee: Issue's assignee. Empty evaluated if not found. $assignee is the value of issue assignee field at issue edit/create screens (not linked asset-issues assignee.)
  • $assigneeOrCurrent: Issue's assignee or current logged-in user when assignee not found.  $assignee is the value of issue assignee field at issue edit/create screens (not linked asset-issues assignee.)

Query with user key:

    referenceAsset("asset.assignee", "JIRAUSER18101")


Query with user name:

    referenceAsset("asset.owner", "tyler")


Query "Jira Users" field contains user "marla" and city is Ada.

    referenceAsset("Jira Users", "marla", "City", "Ada")

User Picker based Attributes (User defined fields)

  • Jira User Picker (Free text input is enabled)

Use exact field name for attributes. Field names are case sensitive

This field stores user name (other user fields holds Jira user key). Additionally enables display name search.


Searching with function variables:

  • $currentUser: Currently logged-in user's name
  • $currentUser.displayName:  Currently logged-in user's display name
  • $currentUser.email:  Currently logged-in user's email


$repoter and $assignee works just like $currentUser, except if $reporter is not found, currently logged in user is used.

  • $repoter
  • $repoter.displayName
  • $repoter.email
  • $assignee
  • $assignee.displayName
  • $assignee.email

Exact user name search:

    referenceAsset("Jira User Picker", "\"agrant-sd-demo\"")


Display name having a word starts with ala (wildcard text search):

    referenceAsset("Jira User Picker", "ala*")


Display name is exactly equals to "Alana Grant"

    referenceAsset("Jira User Picker", "\"Alana Grant\"")


E-mail address is exactly equals to "agrant-sd-demo@example.com"

    referenceAsset("Jira User Picker", "\"agrant-sd-demo@example.com\"")


Search with currently logged in user.

    referenceAsset("Jira User Picker", "$currentUser")


referenceAsset("Jira User Picker", "\"$reporter.email\"")


List based System Fields:

  • Belongs To Group = asset.belongsToGroup
  • Location = asset.location
  • Cost Currency = asset.costCurrency
  • Status = asset.status
  • Substatus = asset.substatus


List based Attributes (User defined fields):

  • Dropdown List
  • List Box
  • List Box - Multiple
  • Radio Button
  • Checkbox

Use exact field name for attributes. Field names are case sensitive

Put 3 @ chars between keywords like "Ada@@@Sel"

Query Cities having İstanbul:

    referenceAsset("Cities", "İstanbul")


Query Cities having Lima or İstanbul:

    referenceAsset("Cities", "Lima@@@İstanbul")


Query Belongs to Group system field having managers:

   referenceAsset("asset.belongsToGroup", "managers")


Query Belongs to Group system field having managers or jira-developers:

    referenceAsset("asset.belongsToGroup", "managers@@@jira-developers")


Query "Status" system field is "In Stock" and "Substatus" system field is "Defective". These values must be English value of the field:

    referenceAsset("asset.status", "In stock", "asset.substatus", "Defective")

Numeric System Fields:

  • Cost = asset.cost


Numeric Attributes (User defined fields):

  • Number Float (with decimals)
  • Number Long (without decimals)

Use exact field name for attributes. Field names are case sensitive

Use dot "." as decimal separator.

Exact search:

    referenceAsset("Item Price", "120.45")

    referenceAsset("Item Age", "21")


Range search:

Between 120 and 139 (120 and 139 are included)

    referenceAsset("Number Float", "120@@@139")


Less than 139 or equal to 139 

    referenceAsset("Number Float", "@@@139")


Bigger than 110 or equal to 110 

    referenceAsset("Number Float", "110@@@")


System field Cost (between 10 and 120) and currency (EUR) search.

referenceAsset("asset.cost", "10@@@120", "asset.costCurrency", "EUR")



Date and Date-Time System Fields:

  • Asset create date time = asset.created
  • Asset update date time = asset.updated
  • Install date = asset.installDate


Date and Date-Time Attributes (User defined fields):

  • Date Picker
  • Date Time Picker

Use exact field name for attributes. Field names are case sensitive

Field value must be in ISO date and date-time format:

  • Date format: YYYY-MM-DD , Example: 2020-12-25
  • Date time format: YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm  , Example: 2020-06-02T15:45


Exact search:

referenceAsset("asset.installDate", "2020-06-01")


Range search:

referenceAsset("asset.installDate", "2020-05-01@@@2020-06-02")

referenceAsset("asset.installDate", "@@@2020-06-02")

referenceAsset("asset.installDate", "2020-05-01@@@")

"Asset List" and "Asset List by Asset Types" Attributes

Use exact field name for attributes. Field names are case sensitive

Put hashtag before asset Id for reference asset search.

referenceAsset of referenceAsset script search is not ready yet.

Single value search:

referenceAsset("Child Asset", "#644")

Multiple value search:

referenceAsset("Child Asset", "#642@@@#644")



referenceAssetByType

This feature is introduced at AIP v7.0.4.

referenceAssetByType works just like referenceAsset with one more additional parameter which lets you to filter assets by asset type.

referenceAssetByType("ASSET TYPE NAME", "FIELD NAME 1", "VALUE 1", "FIELD NAME 2", "VALUE 2")

Function signaturereferenceAssetByType("ASSET TYPE NAME 1", "FIELD NAME 1", "VALUE 1", "FIELD NAME 2", "VALUE 2", ...)
DescriptionAsset type, field name and value parameters are expected. Number of parameters should 3 or 5 or 7...

Example:  referenceAssetByType("Mouse", "Model","pandas", "Vendor", "apple")

  • No labels