Jira Assets Object moving

[Michael Frade]

Having trouble with a third party API in syncing data due to inheritance/child object types.  there is a reference object attribute to the parent object type( setting to include children is on). When the api goes to query, it is not finding the object as it exists in the Child object type ID.

Considering altering the structure of the schema to have all the children in one Object type with an attribute that breaks them up into different categories.  Is there an easy way to move the objects into the Parent Object type ID( inheritance and abstract is turned on) other than creating another object type and importing all the different objects into this new object type as new objects( so it would have new object keys)

So for Object Type A is a Parent. With Child Object Types B and C.

Object Type B has Object X. Object Type C has Object Y. 

Want to move Objects X and Y into Object Type A  and not have to create a new Object Type D

Hopefully that makes sense

[Christopher Yen]

Hi Michael, 

Feel a little lost by the end of your post haha so let me know if my answer is not hitting what you're asking but to my limited knowledge of assets I think importing is the way, I don't believe it's possible to move objects in Assets yet. 

In terms of moving X & Y into A maybe you can create a new attribute to identify the functional type while being the same object type. 

[Michael Frade]

That was the route I thought I needed to take with the new attribute to identify the child object types. Wasn't sure if there was a documented process for this somewhere i wasn't finding.  

The way I am figuring I got to export all the objects under the children Object types of A. Delete all the children object types of A. Turn off the abstract setting. Then import everything into A with a new column for to identify what the child object type was.

Being able to drag and drop things or bulk move would be nice.