Every Asset Group in the Platform is an immediate child group of one, and only one, Parent Asset Group. When creating asset groups manually, you are prompted to select a Parent Asset Group for the new group. The Platform creates a name for the asset group that is a combination of Root Asset Group + <name of Parent Asset Group> + <name of new Asset Group>.
It is possible for additional asset groups to exist in the hierarchy
between the Root Asset Group and the selected Parent Asset Group. For
example, suppose you create an asset group called SP1 and select the Root
Asset Group as its Parent. The fully qualified path name of SP1 in the
Platform would be
/Root Asset Group/SP1
Next, suppose you create an asset group called Laptops and select SP1
as its Parent Asset Group. The fully qualified path name of this new asset
group would be
/Root Asset Group/SP1/Laptops
When the Platform creates asset groups dynamically, any asset group
created is created with only one parent asset group. The asset group name
also becomes a fully qualified path. For example, suppose you created
a hierarchy under SP1 using the values of the properties, Product and
Operating System. If an asset registered with the property values "Desktops"
for Product and "Windows" for Operating System, the fully qualified
path name of the asset group would be
/Root Asset Group/SP1/Desktops/Windows
Notes: The default model
asset groups that are created when an asset registers with the Axeda® Platform for the first
time are created in a special asset group that is an immediate child of
the Root Asset Group. This group is called "Default
Model Group."
The delimiter for the fully qualified path is a forward slash. To distinguish
this delimiter from a forward slash that may be part of the name of an
automatically created default model asset group, the Platform replaces
any forward slash in the default model asset group name with a vertical
bar or "pipe".