Glossary of Assets
Assets is included with Service Collection Paid plans (Standard, Premium, and Enterprise). What Assets is and how it works.
Display name is currently restricted to customers enrolled in the Beta trial of the Assets common data model. Some details may change before general availability.
These are some of the terms that you might see when using Assets or reading the documentation. You can select the link for more information about each item.
Abstract object types | An abstract object type is an object type that cannot contain any objects of its own, but is often used as a parent for other object types that contain objects. |
Assets | An asset is anything that has value to a person or enterprise. Learn more about Assets. |
AQL | AQL or Assets Query Language is a formal syntax used in Assets to return a group of objects based on their description. |
Attribute | An attribute is a piece of information of a particular type that is attached to an object. Learn more about attributes. |
Attribute type | An attribute type describes what kind of information can be held in an attribute - text or number information, references to other objects, users or groups, projects, statuses, or links to a Bitbucket repository. |
Cardinality | Cardinality is a feature that can be enabled for an “Object” attribute type that requires a maximum and/or minimum number of references. |
Child | A child is an object type that has a parent object type, from which it may inherit one or more attributes. |
Configuration item | A configuration item (CI) is a description of a state of a system, service, or asset. Learn more about configuration items. |
Display name | A Display name is the user-facing name of an object type or attribute, shown to users in Assets. When you set a Display name, Assets automatically derives a system Name from it. The Display name can be edited without affecting AQL, APIs, or automations. |
Outbound reference | An outbound reference is a reference that links from the current object out to a different object. |
Icon | An icon is an image that can be attached to an object type. |
Inbound reference | An inbound reference is a reference that links from a different object back to the current object. |
Inheritance | Inheritance is when a parent object type passes one or more of its attributes to its child object types. |
Label | A label indicates which of an object’s attributes is used to uniquely identify that object.
A label is not the same as an object type’s Display name. The Display name is the user-facing name of the object type itself, while the label controls which attribute value is shown when an object of that type is referenced. |
Status | A status is special type of attribute that describes the state of an object. |
Status type | A status type describes what state an object is in. |
Name | A Name is the system identifier of an object type or attribute, used in AQL, APIs, and automations. It is derived from the Display name when the entity is created and can be edited before saving. This is distinct from the Name attribute (the default attribute on objects) and from an object type’s label. |
Object | An object is a single, unique asset or configuration item of a particular object type. Learn more about objects. |
Object schema | An object schema is a collection of information about assets or configuration items that contains object types, objects, attributes, references, statuses, and icons. Learn more about object schemas. |
Object type | An object type is a group of similar objects that share the same attributes. Learn more about object types. |
Service | A service is a software component that delivers ongoing value to customers. Learn more about services. |
Parent | A parent is an object type that has one or more child object types, to which it may pass down one or more attributes. |
Placeholders | A placeholder is a type of function that can provide a dynamic value based on current information. |
References | A reference is a special type of attribute that contains a link to a different object. |
Reference type | A reference type describes what kind of reference connects two objects. |
Service | A service is a software component that delivers ongoing value to customers. Learn more about services. |
Suffix | A suffix is a piece of text that is automatically added at the end of a value. |
Uniqueness | Uniqueness is a feature that can be enabled for an “Text”, “Integer”, “Float”, or“Long” attribute type that requires the value of that attribute to be unique for that object type. |
Validation | Validation is a feature that can be enabled for a “Text”, “Email”, or URL” attribute that requires the value of that attribute to match a Regex statement. Learn more about validation. |
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