To perform administration actions on Asset Types, navigate to Project Settings > Checkout > Asset Types.
Only users with the Administrators project role can view and edit the Asset Types administration page in Checkout.
What is an Asset Type?
An asset type is a categorization of your assets and managing asset types is critical to getting it right. Customer can manage asset types right within Checkout regardless of the provider. For example you can manage Jira Assets asset types using Checkout.
Asset Types are pivotal to Checkout because they facilitate culmination of assets journey after the asset has been ordered from a vendor.
Categories are project-specific. Asset Types span all the projects in a single Jira Instance. So when you create or edit an Asset Type in one project, your changes will appear in all other Checkout projects in that instance.
Managing Asset Types
Managing asset types entails:
Creating Asset types within an asset management provider.
Importing and mapping asset types from integrated vendors
Managing the attributes needed to manage every asset within the configured asset types.
Creating Asset Types
Creating Asset Types is easy to do! To create an Asset Type, click on the Create Asset Type button.
The following attributes will be required:
Name
Description
Image
After filling in these details, administrators can manage the attributes for their Asset Type.