Creating Asset Templates in ThingWorx Core
You can create asset templates with custom properties in ThingWorx Core. To configure your asset types, which are thing templates within ThingWorx Core, there are several recommendations for implementing them. The following sections provide more information on the recommendations when creating asset types.
For more information on thing templates, see
Thing Templates in the
ThingWorx Core Help Center.
Modeling Tag
An asset template must implement the
PTC:AssetType model tag to appear in asset type fields within
ThingWorx Utilities. For more information, see
Working with Assets (Admin Only).
Base Thing Templates
Depending on the functionality you want to support for your assets, thing templates must derive directly or indirectly from these thing templates:
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Thing Template
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Functionality
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RemoteThingWithTunnels
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Remote Sessions only
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RemoteThingWithFileTransfer
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File Transfer only
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RemoteThingWithTunnelsAndFileTransfer
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Remote Session and File Transfer
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Thing Shapes for Supported Properties
Depending on the properties you want your asset type to support, thing templates must implement one of these thing shapes:
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Thing Shape
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Properties
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PTC.Asset.ManagedAsset (Recommended) or TW.RSM.ManagedAsset
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These two thing shapes are identical and interchangeable, but it is recommended that you use PTC.Asset.ManagedAsset.
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• AssetImage
• Image
• AssetBlog
• Blog
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PTC.Asset.ThingShape.Asset (Recommended) or TW.RSM.ThingShape.Asset
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These two thing shapes are identical and interchangeable, but it is recommended that you use PTC.Asset.ThingShape.Asset.
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• IsAlerted
• Owner
• OwnerContact
• Operator
• OperatorContact
• ModelNumber
• SerialNumber
• Location
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Resource Thing Shapes
For more information resource thing shapes, see
Thing-Based Resource Provider.
