Fix custom field usage for Assets in FreshService - display_id is not available

[Matthias (Joestl)]

Hi. I was motivated from the freshworks community to post my issue here as I might find some devs willing to change this.
So I will basically copy paste my freshservice Idea from over there to here:

Currently if you create a custom field in a service request or ticket form which lets the requester chose an asset, you basically can’t do ANYTHING with this field after this, because:

• Workflow Automator Action node does not incude “Associate an asset”
• Workflow WebRequest node does not include Asset ID, only Display_ID (which we don’t have from the custom field)
• Asset API only accepts the assets Display_ID but custom field gives out the ID
• Asset API search does NOT accept ID
• Asset API filter does NOT accept ID
• Workflow Automator Reader node for Assets does NOT accept ID

Please fix this as soon as possible. We are stuck with all the workflows.

Link Discussion: https://community.freshworks.com/freshservice-11247/how-can-i-relate-an-asset-to-a-ticket-via-api-where-i-have-only-the-id-and-not-display-id-26725?postid=69225#post69225

Link Ideas: Fix custom field useage for Assets in FreshService - display_id is not available | Freshworks Community

regards, Matthias

[Bram]

I can only agree to @Matthias’ feedback. It is just unbelievable how convoluted it is to go from Asset Item ID to a representable item in UI. Be it in the form of a note, a Fresh app, or what have you.

Lookups of Assets via ID. Make it happen please.

[Cyber7]

It’s now 1 year later. Has this been remediated?