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Autogenerated asset tree

The Autogenerated Asset Tree application automatically sorts your assets into the asset tree.

Installation and setup​

  1. For on-premise setup, run the SQL script in your Alvao database:

    update tProperty set
    sPropertyValue = isnull(sPropertyValue, '') + ';AutogeneratedAssetTreeSetting'
    where sProperty = 'AdditionalEditableProperties'

  2. Go to Administration - Settings - Advanced and use the New setting command to create the AutogeneratedAssetTreeSetting setting. As a setting value use the content of the json.txt file. You can configure the app by modifying the json. For more information about the values, see the comments in the json and the video bellow.

  3. Download the AutogeneratedAssetTree.xml file.

  4. In Administration – Applications, use the Import command to import the AutogeneratedAssetTree.xml file and enable it with the Enable command.

Using application​

By default, the app scans the objects in the Imported from Microsoft Entra ID and Imported objects folders periodically once per hour.

It moves users (object type User) to departments (object type Department) based on the user's Department property value. If the corresponding department object doesn't exist, the app creates it automatically.

Then the app moves devices to users based on the device's User (UPN) property value. Missing users are not automatically created.

Apart from this periodical process, you may also go to the Imported from Microsoft Entra ID or Imported objects folder, and trigger the sorting with the Sort users or Sort devices commands.

Video tutorial​

Below see the video tutorial how to set up the application:

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The video is not up to date. We recommend using it to get general information about the settings, application behavior and the json configuration file.