Model Categories

[EDCT]

Hi, 

I am trying to find guidance or product documentation which explains which model category on a model record is chosen when you insert a new asset. 

We have models which have multiple categories some with CI class and Asset mappings some without. 

These models and categories have been inserted by an integration. 

I need to understand what logic it applies when picking a category from this list to apply to a new asset to then understand which class a linked CI would be created in. 

[Jimmie Odelius]

Model category is inherited from the model that is set on the asset or CI during creation.

A CI is created in the class that is defined in the model category record in the CI Class field.

[EDCT]

Hi Jimmie, if the Model has multiple categories which category will the asset inherit? 

[Jimmie Odelius]

Hi EDCT,

Interesting and terribly sorry. I was mistaken. The auto-set of category must have been custom development by a previous customer. When multiple categories are available on a model then the model category has to be picked somehow. Either in the import itself, hard coded as part of the import or manually after the import has been done. Multiple categories cannot point towards the same CI class however. So if you can deduct what kind of type of an asset you are importing e.g. server vs computer then you might do that kind of filtering in the import by querying the CI Class field on the model category table.