Asset associations

Track items that belong together as a group. Asset associations let you model real-world relationships (packages on a pallet, sensors attached to a vehicle, or tools stored in a cabinet), so you always know where an asset is and what's with it.

How it works

Any asset can be placed on another asset, creating a parent-child relationship. An asset can have one parent at a time and any number of children.

This mirrors how things work in the real world: a package sits on one pallet, but a pallet can hold many packages.

Placing an asset on a parent

Open the asset you want to place.
Click the three-dot menu (top right) and select Place on...
Search for the parent asset by name or ID.
Optionally choose a relationship (e.g., "stored in", "attached to").
Click Associate.

The parent asset appears as a purple pill next to the asset's name. Click it to navigate to the parent.

The asset's details also carry a Custody field, showing what the asset is placed on and how many assets it is carrying. The pill reads quickly beside the title. The field is where someone reading the asset's own details finds the same thing.

Once an asset is on something, Place on... becomes Move to..., and a Remove from [parent] button sits beside it. Moving an asset to a new parent takes it off the old one in the same step.

Placing many assets at once

Two other routes place assets without opening each one:

From a phone: a scan workflow with the Place assets on an asset action. The first scan chooses the parent, and every scan after it joins that parent, registering the tag first if it is new. No account is needed, so a driver or a supplier can do it.
From a spreadsheet: a parent column in a bulk import, with an optional relationship column. The parent can be another row in the same file, so vehicles and their contents go in together.

Viewing children

When an asset has children, a Children section appears on its detail page showing each child with its status, zone, last position time, and distance from parent. Click any row to navigate to that child.

In the assets list, a small purple badge next to an asset's name shows how many children it has.

Removing an association

From the child asset: click the three-dot menu and select Remove from [parent name].
From the parent asset: click Remove next to any child in the Children section.

Association history

Every time an asset is placed on or removed from a parent, it's recorded in the Association History section on the asset's detail page.

Monitoring associations

Two rule types work with associations:

Proximity association: Automatically creates and removes associations based on physical proximity. Optionally alerts on auto-disassociation.
Separation: Alerts when any associated asset (manual or auto) moves too far from its parent, with an optional grace period.