Hi Steve,
Based on your description, the team is looking to see the entire path when selecting a parent asset item for a new child asset item. A couple releases back, a product enhancement was created for the dropdown on child asset items to display the asset path.
As a result, when creating a hierarchical structure of asset types and navigate to create a new asset item for any child asset in the structure, you will see the asset path in the dropdown for the "owner / parent" selection. This is slightly different than what the team was initially looking for, though should satisfy the problem nonetheless.
As an example, if I created 3 asset types in a hierarchy as follows :
level 1 = system / application
level 2 = table
level 3 = field / column
Let's say I setup two level 1 system / application items - one named "twilight" and one named "daylight", then setup four level 2 table items - two named "customer" ( one for each application above ) and two named "vendor" ( one for each application above ). When I go to select the owner / parent, the team will be able to visibly see the "twilight" and "daylight" labeling.
If the team then sets up a "name" filed for the "twilight" customer table and another "name" field for the "twilight" vendor table ( though does not want to setup "name" fields for the "daylight" tables ), the way the system used to work, the owner / parent would only show one level up. As a result you would see the four entries below and would not be able to tell which went with "twilight" and which went with "daylight" :
"customer" / "customer" / "vendor" / "vendor"
Since the aforementioned fix was implemented, we changed the owner / parent dropdown so it now looks like the four entries below. The team is able to both easily see and choose the correct value :
"daylight > customer" / "twilight > customer" / "daylight > vendor" / "twilight > vendor"
Matthew Kennedy