Asset management in Jira with spreadsheet-like bulk editing

You can find the documentation here.

Jira Assets is excellent for modeling relationships, schemas, and maintaining a system of record. Asset Manager focuses on making operational work faster.

Asset Manager adds:

• Spreadsheet-style editing

• Faster bulk updates

• Filtering and sorting across many objects

• Inline changes without opening each object

• Saved operational views

Use Jira Assets as your foundation and Asset Manager as your day-to-day workspace for managing large datasets.

Asset Manager for Jira by Mobility Stream completes native Jira Assets by focuses on making changes faster and more accurate.

Asset Manager for Jira adds:

• Bulk updates
• Spreadsheet-style editing
• Filtering and sorting across many objects
• Inline changes without opening each object
• Saved operational views

1. Log into your instance of Jira as an admin.
2. Select the Apps dropdown menu from top navigation bar, and choose Explore new apps.
3. Once the screen loads, you can type Asset Manager for Jira in the search bar to find the appropriate app.
4. Select the app tile and the app details page of the specific app loads.
5. You can select Try it Free to install the app.
6. Once the app is installed, you will be notified via a success message. Following this, you can start using the app.

Please note: These steps are only for administrators. If you are not an administrator, then contact your Jira administrator or select ‘Try it Free’, and then request for the app by selecting ‘Submit request’.

Asset Manager for Jira uses what you already have in place for Jira Assets. We do not change how your Jira Assets work including any limits.

Please contact your Jira administrator for more details about what you are able to do with Jira Assets in your organization.

You can scan QR codes from a mobile or tablet. It requires installing our Jira mobile app called Mobility for Jira (additional licenses are required) in addition to Asset Manager for Jira.

In addition to QR code scanning with Mobility for Jira you get:

• Mobile access to Assets

• View and update assets in the field

• Field workflows and operational execution

Plus many features beyond assets.

Currently data cannot be exported directly from Asset Manager.A custom export to CSV feature is in development.

For now you need to install an additional app to export. 

You can export from Asset Manager if you install one of our accompanying apps (additional licenses are required):

• Google Sheets Integration

• Excel Online Integration

• Snowflake for Jira

• Databricks for Jira

• Microsoft Fabric or Jira

Each app allows a user to select Asset schemas, object types, and attributes to be included in an export.

If you are looking to send data from these systems to Assets, please contact us.

Yes. Objects in Assets can be linked to Jira work items as long as there’s an active Service Collection Standard or above license in the same instance.

Moving your CMDB into Assets, an app in Service Collection, would:

• Streamline your work by having all ITSM (requests, incidents, changes, & problems) and CMDB information in one tool
• Provide more context between assets & CIs and incidents & changes so that your Dev and Ops teams can get to the root of the issue faster and manage risks for more seamless deployments
• Reduce costs as other CMDB vendors are expensive
• Increase flexibility to store whatever type of inventory, asset, or record – without the constraints or limits to just IT use cases.

Yes, Atlassian offers basic discovery functionality to detect assets and CIs connected to your local network and extract detailed info about each asset.

Atlassian also offers integrations with leading discovery solutions like Lansweeper and Flexera to find and import devices into Assets app.

With Jira Assets, users have the ability to leverage Data Manager and its native schema import feature. Learn more here:

• Learn about Assets Data Manager
• Learn about Adapters
• Set up Assets Data Manager
• Move data into Data Manager to create raw data
• Remove unwanted values to create transformed data
• Eliminate unnecessary records to create cleansed data
• Reconcile data sources to create Data Manager objects
• Import into an Assets schema to create schema objects

Anything.

• Traditional IT assets like hardware
• Configuration items
• People records

Assets is flexible to your needs. Just create the object type and schema right for you and you’ll be on your way.

Asset Manager for Jira is built for working across many assets at once.

Examples include:

• Updating ownership fields

• Status and lifecycle changes

• Correcting imported data

• Updating locations or assignments

• Operational cleanup activities

Use filtering and views to target only the assets you want to change and apply updates efficiently.

Yes. Asset Manager for Jira supports creating new assets directly from the application.

Use the Create Asset button to open a guided asset creation form and add new objects without leaving your workspace.

This combines creation and management in one experience:

• Create new assets using a form

• Continue bulk editing existing assets

• Stay in context while managing data

• Reduce switching between screens

For larger operational updates, combine asset creation with filtering, saved views, and spreadsheet-style editing.