Web Components for Insights Hub and Industrial IoT
Asset Type View

The Asset Type View displays asset types available in the current tenant.

The view mode can be configured to display the asset types as listed items or in a tree view. A search field is displayed by default, but can be hidden.

Example¶

The following pictures show the Asset Type View in different view modes.

List¶

List

Tree¶

Tree

Interface¶

Selector¶

<mdsp-asset-type-view></mdsp-asset-type-view>

Properties¶

Name	Type	Corresponding attribute	Default	Description	Allowed Values
context	`string`	context		Configures the context of the component. See also here.
countHidden	`boolean`	count-hidden	false	Hides the asset type count field if `true`.
errorNotification	`boolean`	error-notification		Enables error control if an error is thrown. This can be used for debug purposes. For productive use, the error event should be caught and handled in the application. See also here.
locale	`string`	locale		Specifies the locale in which the component is displayed. The locales `en` and `de` are provided by default. See also here.
localeManager	`LocaleManager`			Returns a LocaleManager object. This can be used to add locales or to get the locale settings. See also here.
model	`IDataModel`			Returns an object for data model handling, refer to IDataModel model.
searchHidden	`boolean`	search-hidden	false	Hides the search field if `true`.
searchText	`string`	search-text		Specifies the text in the search field (read or write).
selectedAssetTypeId	`string`	selected-asset-type-id		Specifies the ID of the selected asset type.
sharedAssetTypes	`boolean`	shared-asset-types	false	Specifies whether shared asset types from other tenants are displayed.
view	`IViewModel`			Returns an object for view handling, refer to IViewModel model.
viewMode	`AssetTypeViewMode`	view-mode	List	Configures the view mode.	- List - Tree

Events¶

Name	Type	Description
selectedAssetTypeChanged	`EventEmitter<IAssetType>`	Triggered when a new assetType is selected.
connected	`EventEmitter<any>`	Triggered after the component is created, initialized and appended to the DOM tree.
error	`EventEmitter<MdspUiError>`	Triggered when an error occurs in the component or while accessing APIs. See also here.

Models¶

IAssetType

interface IAssetType {
    _links?: IAssetTypeLinks;
    aspects?: any[];
    description?: string;
    etag?: string | number;
    fileAssignments?: FileAssignment[];
    id: string;
    instantiable?: boolean;
    name?: string;
    parentTypeId?: string;
    scope?: string;
    sharing?: ISharing;
    tenantId?: string;
    variables?: any[];
}

IAssetTypeLinks

interface IAssetTypeLinks {
    self?: ILink;
    parent?: ILink;
}

IDataModel

interface IDataModel {
  // forces reload of data, e.g. re-loading the assets
  refresh(): void;
}

IViewModel

interface IViewModel {
  refresh(): void;
}

Remarks¶

The Asset Type View currently supports up to 20,000 asset types in list view mode.
The tree view mode currently supports up to 1,000 asset types.

Roles¶

mdsp:core.AssetManagement.xxx (Asset Management API is used)

Snippets¶

Refresh¶

The data model of the component can be refreshed, for example to update the view cyclically to get the latest asset changes:

assetTypeView.model.refresh();

Last update: July 21, 2023

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