Create asset contact relationships

  • Release version: Australia
  • Updated March 12, 2026
  • 2 minutes to read

    • Assign an asset to a customer contact who is responsible for managing that asset.

    Account and partner contacts can see all of the assets related to an account. To limit access to an asset, you can create an asset contact relationship and assign the asset to one or more contacts. Then you can enable the associated property to restrict access to the asset information to the assigned contacts.

    The system administrator can add a primary contact to an asset by selecting a user in the Primary Contact field on the Asset form. This field references the Contacts table and is filtered by the asset’s account.

    The system administrator can also create relationships with additional contacts from the Asset Contacts related list on the Asset form. When you create an asset contact relationship, you can select contacts from:
    • The account that the asset belongs to.
    • The partner of the account that the asset belongs to.
    • Any contacts added to these accounts using contact relationships.
    After adding contacts to an asset, enable the related property to limit access. When enabled, the following access is limited from the customer portal:
    • When a user clicks My Assets, the list shows only those assets for which the user is a contact.
    • When a user clicks Create Case, the Asset field on the Create Case form shows only those assets for which the user is a contact.

    Assign a primary contact to an asset

    Users with the system administrator role can assign a primary contact to an asset.

    Before you begin

    Role required: admin

    Procedure

    1. Navigate to All > Customer Service > Products > Assets.
    2. Click the desired asset.
    3. Select a Primary Contact.
      This field references the Contacts [customer_contact] table and is filtered by the account selected in the Account field.
    4. Click Update.
      The contact is added to the Asset Contacts related list on the asset form.

    Assign a contact to an asset

    Users with the system administrator role can assign a contact to an asset.

    Before you begin

    Role required: admin

    About this task

    Users with the sn_customerservice.customer_admin can also assign a contact to an asset from the Customer Service Portal.

    Procedure

    1. Navigate to All > Customer Service > Products > Assets.
    2. Select the desired asset.
    3. From the Asset Contacts related list, select New.
      When you select New, a new Asset Contact form is displayed with the Asset field filled in.
    4. Select a Contact from the list of available contacts within the asset's account.
    5. Select the Order field to specify the sequence in which records are displayed, organized according to business preferences.
    6. Select Submit.
      The contact is added to the Asset Contacts related list.

    Enable the asset contact relationship property

    Limit access to asset information to the assigned contacts by enabling the associated property.

    Before you begin

    Role required: admin

    Procedure

    1. Navigate to All > Customer Service > Administration > Properties.
    2. Set the Restrict Assets based on Contacts assigned to the assets property to true.
    3. Click Save.