What are object types?
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.
An object type in Assets represents a group of similar objects in an object schema. An object type has a Display name (shown to users) and a system Name that Assets derives from it for use in AQL and APIs.
These objects share attributes, and other characteristics that make them useful to hold information about a certain type of asset or service.
Each object type can have a single parent object type and multiple child object types. You can configure inheritance so that child object types automatically receive the attributes of their parents and pass their own attributes to their children.
Similarly you can set some object types as abstract, meaning that they can’t contain any objects of their own but can pass their attributes to their children, who can themselves contain objects. Inheritance and abstract object types can be used to create object schemas that are both simple and powerful.
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