Can I make an Insight Custom Field that allows the user to choose the object type?

[Neil Isenor]

I'd like to have an Insight Custom Field where the user would choose the ObjectType, IE: Computer, or Phone. Is this possible? Is there an IQL command which will call the objectType itself?

Once I do that I will have an Insight Custom Field below which references the first field, and shows a list of objects which match the chosen type, and also have outbound references to the current reporter (that part I have already figured out).

Thanks!

[Yinon Negev · Accepted solution]

Hi Neil.

    You can achieve this by having a Select List CF on the Issue where the options are available Object Types in Insight (e.g. Office, Employee, Host), then stating the following IQL in the Filter Issue Scope of the Insight CF:

objectType = ${Select List.label}

In this example, my select list CF is named "Select List", so used in the IQL as a placeholder wit ".label" will try to match an Object Type with the Name Label of the Option in the Select list.

Tested this here successfully with Insight 6.1.4. Note that this will not work in earlier versions of Insight (see here)

Kind regards,

Yinon

Team Riada

[Neil Isenor]

Thanks Yinon,

I appreciate your help. This looks like exactly what I was hoping for!

[Bert Smith]

Would it just be objecttype = "Device" and you'd have a device parent in your schema with phone, computer as child objects?

[Neil Isenor]

That's a workaround that could work if required. Thank you.