Signals Notebook Import/Export: Inventory Property Warnings When Amount and Temperature Are in Use

Description

When importing Inventory properties using the Signals Notebook Import/Export Tool, you may see warnings indicating that certain properties, such as Amount and Temperature, were not updated.

These warnings are expected behavior and occur when the properties are already being used by existing Inventory templates in the target tenant.

The import process intentionally avoids modifying properties that are actively referenced by existing templates to prevent unintended changes to their structure or behavior.

1. Why are alerts generated for these specific properties?

The warnings are generated because Amount and Temperature are currently used by existing Inventory templates in the target tenant. To avoid affecting the structure or behavior of those templates, the import process does not update properties that are actively in use.

This warning does not mean that the properties are missing or were manually modified.

2. Why are similar alerts not displayed for other imported properties?

Other properties are not currently referenced by the target tenant’s Inventory templates. Therefore, they are considered safe to create or update during the import.

The import process checks whether each property is being used by an existing template. Only properties identified as being in use generate this type of warning.

3. What logic or validation mechanism governs this behavior?

During the import, the system:

1. Reads the Inventory properties from the configuration file.

2. Retrieves the existing properties and templates from the target tenant.

3. Identifies which properties are referenced by the existing templates.

4. Matches imported properties with target properties by name.

5. Creates or updates properties that are not in use.

6. Skips properties that are already used by templates and records a warning.