Managing Assets in Calipso

Asset Management in Calipso is a breeze. Calipso allows the definition of your asset types and their properties. For example, you can create and manage assets like hardware, software, contracts, locations etc. and link those to specific tasks.

In the example bellow you can see how an administrator can create assets for a space used for a Technical Support (helpdesk) space. See also: how to create a helpdesk space.

    Create your Asset Types: » Click to zoom ->
    enlarge     Create your Asset Types: Go to "Options Menu > Asset Management > Asset Types Management > New Asset Type" to create a new type of asset. In the sample above we have created a "Server" asset type and it's custom attributes. You can also add rendering templates for custom HTML and PDF generation, both Velocity and Freemarker are supported.

    Adding Custom Attributes: » Click to zoom ->
    enlarge     Adding Custom Attributes: You can also add custom attributes for your asset type, as well as validation rules for values entered by users. In this example we define an attribute to capture the CPU architecture of our "Server" asset type.

    Done! » Click to zoom ->
    enlarge     Done! You have now created a new asset type and can start adding assets of this type to your space.

    Manage Space Assets: » Click to zoom ->
    enlarge     Manage Space Assets: To manage the assets for a space, go to "Options > Manage Spaces" to see a list of spaces and click the Assets icon for a space.

    Create Asset Instance: » Click to zoom ->
    enlarge     Create Asset Instance: You can now create an asset instance based on the Asset Type you created

    Space Assets Overview: » Click to zoom ->
    enlarge     Space Assets Overview: The space assets overview is the starting point for managing asset of a given space. Here we have added a specific server to a space used for technical support.