Searching for an Asset

An agency may have thousands of assets. You can quickly filter your assets list by selecting your asset group and asset type from the drop‑down menus in the Asset List portlet and clicking the Filter button. Or, use a search to enter any information that you know about the asset.

Civic Platform allows you to search assets by asset details, asset addresses, associated work order details, as well as rating types and attribute fields associated to your selected asset type. If you want to view the list of fire hydrants around a school, you may begin your search by identifying the asset type as Hydrant. Since you know the location of the school, you could enter the city, zip code, street, and any other fields narrowing the search.

If you lack the asset detail information, but want to get all the assets that have due work orders in the next week, you just enter the work order scheduling details and perform the asset search.

To search for an asset

1. Navigate to the Assets portlet.

   Civic Platform displays the Asset list portlet.

2. To quickly filter your list, use the Asset Group, Asset Type, Asset ID, Attribute Name, and Attribute Value drop‑down menus at the top of the page to filter the list of assets.

   Select a value from one or more of the drop‑down lists and click Filter.

   Civic Platform returns a list of assets that match your filter criteria.

3. To perform a search, click Search.

   Civic Platform displays the Asset Search portlet.

   The available search fields are a combination of asset detail fields, address fields and work order fields. After you select an asset type, the rating types and attribute fields associated to the asset type also display as search fields at the end of the page.

   You can choose what fields to display and group the fields as necessary with the Edit View feature. For more information on Edit View, See Editing Your View.

4. Complete any of the fields that display.

   For a description of the asset detail fields, see Asset Fields.

   For a description of the address fields, see Table 1.

   For a description of the work order fields, see Work Order Fields.

5. After you enter all the desired search parameters, click Submit.

   Civic Platform returns a list of all assets that match your search criteria.

   If you specify some work order fields as the search criteria, Civic Platform returns a list of all assets that associate with the specified work orders.