Creating Custom Asset Types
Besides customizing the predefined asset types that are installed with CentraSite, you can also define custom types of your own. For example, if you wanted to include items such as service requests, IT projects and source code libraries in your registry, you would create a custom type for each of these entities.
Note: | Before creating a custom type, always check to see whether CentraSite provides a predefined type that you might be able to customize and use. Customizing one of CentraSite's predefined types will save you time, especially if the type requires a file importer. |
Before creating a custom type, you must first decide which aspects of an entity you want to model in the registry. If you were creating a type to represent IT projects, for example, you might want to capture characteristics such as the name of the project requester, the lines of business the project is expected to affect, the project plan, the project manager and the project's expected completion date. After you decide which specific characteristics and qualities you want to model, you can create a custom type that includes a corresponding attribute for each of those characteristics or qualities.
