Assets Integration

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What is Assets?

(supported since Better Excel Exporter for Jira Cloud 0.7.0)

Assets is the leading asset management app for Jira, that allows implementing CMDB, CRM, HR, ITSM or ITIL functionality on the Jira platform.

Assets integration features

• You can export the Assets-managed custom field type Assets objects to Excel.
• You can configure the export format to include object names (e.g. "My awesome server"), object keys (e.g. "My awesome server [SRVR-123]"), object attributes (e.g. "My awesome server [SRVR-123] (Manufacturer=Cray Research, Vector Processors=4, Type=Supercomputer)") and any combination of these.

(Need more features? Tell us in a support ticket!)

Assets integration vs. the Assets built-in Excel exports

You may want to ask: if Assets has a built-in Excel export feature, why would you use another app for the same?

While the Assets built-in Excel exports may be sufficient for basic use cases, the Better Excel Exporter integration is more powerful in, at least, these:

• It supports Excel automation.
  You can export, email and attach Excel files using Jira automation rules.
• It is extremely customizable.
  Instead of accepting the pre-defined export types in Assets, you can define your own types via Excel templates.
• It supports all the powerful Excel features.
  You can use Excel formulas and functions, custom calculations in Groovy (sorting, complex math, data integration, etc.), charts, pivot tables, pivot charts, Visual Basic macros, among others.
• It is integrated with all the popular Jira apps.
  You can freely combine Assets data and other apps' data in the same Excel file.
• It comes with powerful templates optimized for Assets.
  You can use those "as is", or customize them to your needs.
• It is well-documented with the customization guide, the Expression Reference Manual, the recipes, and such.

If at least one of these is important for you, give the app a try.

Tutorial video

Watch this short introductory video to see how fast you can export your Assets data to Excel! (Although the video below was captured in the app's Server version, the Cloud version is very similar.)

Assets Excel export samples

Configuration

Configuring the Assets custom fields

There is nothing to do. Better Excel Exporter will automatically recognize the Assets-managed objects and export them accordingly.

Configuring the export format for the Assets custom fields

The default behavior is that object names and object keys will be exported (e.g. "My awesome server [SRVR-123]"). You can include object name, object key and attributes by setting these configuration variables in the top part of the field-helper-tool.groovy script:

// field-helper-tool.groovy

/* Assets configuration. */
def exportAssetsObjectNames = true
def exportAssetsObjectKeys = true
def exportAssetsObjectAttributes = false

If you want full control over the export format, please see this easy-to-read method in field-helper-tool.groovy:

private def assetsObjectsToString(def object)

Learn more about Assets

• Assets documentation