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title: "Configuration"
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<span style="color: #2c3e50">To configure Assets and Inventory Plugin, log in to JIRA with admin privileges, and use </span>**AIP Menu > Configuration **<span style="color: #2c3e50">menu item. Under this page you can set permissions and other items.</span>

![image](media://6bc196e5-c02c-4347-8067-18304e56d67a)

### <span style="color: #2c3e50">Permissions</span>

<span style="color: #2c3e50">Permissions have 3 options to set:</span>

- **<span style="color: #222222">All logged in users:</span>**<span style="color: #222222"> Any </span>**<span style="color: #222222">JIRA user</span>**<span style="color: #222222"> will have the permission.</span>
- **<span style="color: #222222">Users with admin role:</span>**<span style="color: #222222"> </span><span style="color: #222222">Any </span>**<span style="color: #222222">JIRA admin</span>**<span style="color: #222222"> user will have the permission.</span>
- **<span style="color: #222222">Users in defined group:</span>**<span style="color: #222222"> Any user in the given group name </span><span style="color: #222222">will have the permission. It is a good practice to manage permissions with a group instead of individual user access.</span>

<span style="color: #2c3e50">Below, you can find the permissions to set:</span>

- **<span style="color: #2c3e50">Access for menu permission: </span>**<span style="color: #2c3e50">Assets and Inventory Plugin Menu will be visible to the selected option</span>
- **View Assets Report permission:** Assets Report (read only) will be accessable for the selected option
- **Manage Attributes permission:** Attribute functions including view, add, delete or update will be given to selected option
- **Manage Forms permission: **
  Form functions including view, add, delete or update will be given to selected option
- **Manage Assets permission: **Assets functions including view, add, delete or update will be given to selected option
- **Import and export permission: **Import and Export functions will be given to selected option. Import Scheme is a destructive operation, consider giving this permission to JIRA or Asset administrator.

### Other Configuration Items

#### **Unique behaviour for Asset Names:**

You can choose one of the options below. It is a good practice to choose "Do Not Allow" to track the Assets easier.** **

- Allow same asset names
- Allow only for differen forms
- Do Not Allow

#### **Excel export**

You can set how you would like to see inventory field in issue navigator and excel: "Only Asset Names" or "Detailed With Attributes"

 

![image](media://39274dd8-e935-42ee-813c-75837f778a99)

 

### Datetime formats

![image](media://21d0242f-9315-4701-b759-6a7bc22d0015)

### **Custom Field Configuration**

Please see [Create and configure asset custom fields](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/AIP/pages/10256649) page.