Getting started with the Assets by Oomnitza app

With the Assets by Oomnitza app for Android and iOS, you can manage assets remotely. You can use your mobile phone's camera or a bluetooth enabled external scanners to add and edit assets and to complete actions such as updating fields and running workflows.

Make sure you download the latest version of the assets app! Take advantage of the new features such as adding actions to trigger workflows and using external bluetooth scanners for scanning assets.
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Permissions

Best practice is for administrators to create dedicated roles for app users. To use the app, users must have at least read permissions for assets. To use all of the app’s features, such as editing and bulk editing, add and edit permissions for assets are required. See Granting role permissions

Click Configuration > General > Mobile Screen Builder.

Enabling scanners

Complete the following actions:

• Enable the mobile phone camera to scan assets and upload media.
• Enable the external scanner to scan assets and upload media.

Configuring the app screens

• As you configure the screens, the mockup on the HOME PAGE is updated to reflect the changes that you make such as
• The scan actions you add
• The actions section title and the actions that you add

Configuring the block view of for asset details

To change the fields that are shown in the tile for the Assets by Oomnitza app, a user with the appropriate permissions for assets must log into the Oomnitza instance and reconfigure the block view of the Assets page and save the changes. 

Configuring the block view 

Adding rules for scanning barcodes

Administrators can control how barcodes are scanned by creating barcode scan rules in the Configuration > General > Barcode scan rules menu.

Creating barcode scan rules

Administrators can also perform the following actions in their Oomnitza instance to set the app behavior:

• Specify the maximum allowable file size and supported file extensions for any uploaded media.  See Global attachment settings.
• Set a limit on the number of asset records that can be edited. See Global system settings. You use the system.bulk_edit_records_limit to limit the number of records that can be bulk edited.
• Activate SSO so that users must use SSO to sign in.