Moving asset hierarchy across root assets

Hi @Harsha, thanks for the feedback!

Is this something that you’re encountering with the Cognite SAP Extractor or a custom extraction method? If it’s the latter, it should be possible with a few extra lines of code to recreate an asset under a new root node based on the condition that the root is changing. I’m sure @Christian Flasshoff @Diego Antonino and team can advise further if you decide to go that route. 

However, in general we are not prioritizing features on the “classic” asset resource type at this time as the strategy is to move this to Data Modeling (DM). I will raise this with the team working on bringing Assets into DM to see if this same behavior is expected there. 

@Hunter Beck 

This problem arises with the real-time APIs.

We write  the data to Cognite APIs  from S4 Hana to the CDF through SAP PO PI.

Changes occur in the asset hierarchy within SAP, which are beyond our control, affecting the root assets of CDF. Consequently, the interfaces encounter failures, indicating that data transfer across root assets in CDF is not possible.

Correct, we need the same functionality in Cognite, which does not require any additional programming, but is simply possible in the standard. 

Anything else leads to unnecessary additional work and complication for each such case. As this is a standard functionality in SAP, it will be just as important and critical for other customers. 

@Hunter Beck  do you have any update on how to handle this 

Hi @Harsha apologies for the slow response. I believe @Diego Antonino was following up with some procedures for how this can be implemented based on the API today.

As mentioned, it’s not something we are considering as an update at this time in the Assets API, as our primary focus is on getting Assets fully into Data Modeling, but we will keep this idea open as we can consider it at a later time as a feature on the Data Modeling version of Assets.

Sorry, it has been a while since we updated this idea…

@Harsha - I’m a little unclear as to whether “move data between root assets” is more of a “reassign the hierarchy to a new root asset”, or if it means “moving metadata from one root asset to another” (for instance)?