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With connected fields, you can link asset fields directly to a specific data point in your integrations. Once connected, the field will be populated by the value for that data point according to the integration connected. With connected fields, your integration data will now be searchable, exportable, and be shown in the table view of an asset layout. This feature will in turn allow changes to the asset field value to be logged in activity logs and displayed in version history. I will start by jumping into an asset that is currently pulling in integration information from Ninja. Now in this instance, I have already gone ahead and set up my integrations. So if you haven't, and want to take advantage of this feature, go ahead and set up your integrations first. As you can see, values such as the model, IP address, and serial number are all coming over, but are only present in the integration card. This allows me to see this information in the asset, but doesn't allow me to export it, search it, or have it be shown in the table view. Connected fields solves these problems. To set up a connected field, I can first manage this asset layout. This takes me to all of my flexible asset layout fields within the asset layout. I have already gone ahead and created a couple of fields that I will want to be connected, such as model, operating system, unique identifier for the serial number, and IP address. If you don't already have the fields created that you want to connect with your integrations, you will need to go ahead and add those fields. Now to connect these fields, I can simply edit field, scroll down, select the integration I want to connect this to, in this case, Ninja1, and then select my data point. Since this field is for model, I will go ahead and select device model, and I will also have this field be shown in the table view, and then go ahead and update field. I can then repeat this process for all of the connected fields I want to add. Again, here I am adding this for the operating system, the serial number, and the IP address. You will also notice that once I mark a field as a connected field, a little plug icon will populate for that field, showing me it is connected to an integration. Now that I have finished up adding my connected fields, I can go ahead and jump back into the asset I was in earlier. Now that I am in this asset, I can go ahead and re-sync this integration card, and will immediately see those fields populate in my flexible asset card. As I take a step back and go to the table view, I will also now see those fields present here. Now if I need to search for this device, and want to do so by serial number, I can simply type that into my global search bar, click comprehensive to search within my asset fields, and now the new device will be populated. As I mentioned, connected fields allows your integration data to be searchable, exportable, and be shown in the table view of an asset layout. This feature will reduce manual effort to populate information, and allow information to be found much easier and quicker. With connected fields, you can merge multiple sources, so the most important information from every source is easily accessible. For this example, I showed off connected fields with Ninja, but this feature is available for most of Hoodoo's native integrations, so feel free to log into your Hoodoo environment and start connecting some fields to whatever tech stack you use. Thanks for watching today, and I hope you enjoyed this video on connected fields. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, feel free to leave a comment below, join our community, or reach out to us at support.hoodoo.com.
