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Seasoned ⭐️⭐️
August 4, 2026
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Charts: Not possible to view an instance as the CogniteAsset extension when going via P&ID link

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  • August 4, 2026
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If you in Charts add a timeseries that is contextualised to a CogniteAsset, you will get the “P&ID” link icon. By clicking on it you will enter search mode for that specific asset, showing the File links as default. This is a nice workaround for a “Find related data”, also allowing you to add CogniteActivities.

The instance is shown as a CogniteAsset, and it obviously use the inspection endpoint since you are allowed to change between different views for this instance. However, it doesn’t show the View that is the CogniteAsset extension. The consequence of this is that I’m not able to see neither CogniteFiles nor CogniteActivities as their extension (my CogniteAsset extension has reverse direct relation to the CogniteFile and CogniteActivity extensions). This seriously limits me when filtering on important properties since they only exist in the extension. 

 

A workaround is to go directly to “+ Add data → Add time series”, and then select my CogniteAsset extension when I search, but then I have to repeat the search instead of going directly via the “P&ID” link, making it much more cumbersome.

 

 

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    Seasoned ⭐️⭐️
    August 4, 2026

    After some further investigation I noticed that the same behavior applies to Search in general.

    Eg, if I manage to open an instance as a CogniteXXX view, the dropdown do not show any of the views that are the extension of the CogniteXXX, only the other views. 

    This is a problem since you sometimes want to (or by pure accident) traverse via a CDM instance. Previously I could use the dropdown to move to the extended view, but now I cannot do it, which makes the model traversal more cumbersome 

    Why was this change made?