Add `alias` field to Validated Software List CSV Export

[MeganerdDev]

Environment

• Nautobot version: v1.5.14b1
• nautobot-plugin-device-lifecycle-mgmt version: v1.1.2

Proposed Functionality

Presently the CSV export for Software List has a column with the alias key, but the Validated Software List does not contain this column.

Current columns (and order) for Software List export: device_platform,version,alias,release_date,end_of_support,documentation_url,long_term_support,pre_release

Current columns (and order) for Validated Software List export: software,devices,device_types,device_roles,inventory_items,object_tags,start,end,preferred

Desired columns for Validated Software List export: software,devices,device_types,device_roles,inventory_items,object_tags,start,end,preferred,alias

Use Case

As a user I want to export the alias with the "validated software list" CSV export, similar to "software list" CSV export does. This is because the "software" column in the "validated software list" CSV export contains the UUID of the object, which is not very human readable and not obvious which software item it is visually.

[MeganerdDev]

https://github.com/nautobot/nautobot-plugin-device-lifecycle-mgmt/pull/153

[MeganerdDev]

Also related to the columns exported in “Software” vs “Validated Software”. I wasn't sure if we should merry up any of these differences as well to make the exports more uniform?

1. version Exported in “Software” but not “Validated Software” CSV

2. object_tags Exported in “Validated Software” but not “Software” CSV Both "Software" and "Validated Software" objects can have tags applied on their respective forms, so maybe export tags and object_tags separately is more appropriate?

3. UUID This is exported in “Validated Software” CSV as the "software" column however the “Software” object has a UUID, but it has no equivalent "software" column for its export

[progala]

Thanks @MeganerdDev , I agree that it'd be good to revisit exports to make them more useful and consistent.

I think whatever we do we should make sure that the csv files can be used later to recreate objects by using import functionality. That is, I'd be good to test whether we can uniquely match Validated Software to Software objects, without using Software UUID, when importing csv.

2. object_tags on Validated Software are used for dynamically assigning them to groups of devices/inventory items. These are different to standard tags which can be applied to the concrete instances of Software and Validated Software. However, we should porbably add these to the export as well for both models.

[progala]

Closing, solution was provided in the linked PR.