To start, go to the Assets menu. From this page, there are many ways to work within the asset grid below.

Set up your work environment

Like for the product grid, you can set up a locale and a channel context, you can reduce and expand the categories panel, and use filters to easily find the assets you are looking for.

For more information about the grid, please refer to the Get familiar with the grid article.

The filters can be applied on the following asset information:

• Code
• Description
• Tags
• End of use
• Creation date
• Last update date

Asset grid display

To highlight the assets images, a Gallery display is available in the asset grid.

To use the Gallery display:

1. Click on List to change the display 
   
2. Select the display Gallery 
   

Search by code

To quickly find assets in the assets grid, you can search on the code.

The behavior of the search is a "contains" filter. For example, if you type in "can", it will display all the assets with a code which contains "can".

Create an asset

To create an asset in the PIM:

1. Go to the Assets menu
2. Click on the Create an asset button in the top right­ corner 
   
3. Select if the asset you want to create is localized or not. Note: If it will be localized, the area to upload a reference file is hidden. If not, you can upload a reference file.
4. If a file is uploaded as a reference file, a code is automatically generated based on the given filename. If not, the user has to put a code for the asset.
5. Click on the Save button.

The asset has been created and the asset form page is displayed.

To edit an asset, open the asset form by clicking on the right row in the asset grid.

Click on the Variations tab.

You can either generate variations from a reference file, or put the variation files manually.

ADD A REFERENCE FILE

If you don't have any reference file for your asset yet:

1. Drag and drop the file in the area or click in the area to open the dialog box and select the file to add 
   
2. Click on the Save button

The reference file is added and the variation files are generated.

To download a file, click on the relevant Download button.

DELETE A FILE (REFERENCE OR VARIATION)

To delete a file, click on the relevant Delete button, and confirm the action.

Click on the Generate from the reference file button.

GENERATE VARIATION FILES FROM THE REFERENCE FILE AUTOMATICALLY

Click on the Reset variations button in the reference file panel.

All the variations different from the reference file are updated. The others are not updated.

UPLOAD A VARIATION FILE MANUALLY

1. Drag and drop the file in the area or click in the area to open the dialog box and select the file to add.
2. Click on the Save button.

The variation file will be no more related to the reference file.

Edit the asset properties

1. Click on the Properties tab
2. Edit the properties you want to change
3. Click on the Save button

• a description to give more details about your asset,
• tags that will help you work with your assets,
• an end-of-use date for each asset could be very useful if you want to receive a notification a few days before your asset license expires. To enable this option, please refer to the Manage your account article.

Create a new tag for an asset

When a tag is not available, if you continue to type it, you can use the Enter button of your keyboard to tell the PIM that you want to create the tag. It will be automatically created and it will be then available for other assets.

Classify the asset into categories

An asset can be classified in one or more categories, but can also be left out of any categories in the PIM. The asset can either be classified in several categories of the very same tree or in different ones.

To classify one asset:

1. Click on the Categories tab
2. Click on the name of a tree you want on the left hand side
3. Check the categories in which the asset has to be classified
4. Uncheck the categories in which the asset should no longer be listed
5. Click on the Save button to confirm your changes

Delete an asset

An asset can be removed from the PIM. This means that all the relevant asset information will be deleted in the PIM. This action cannot be reverted.

1. Open the asset form you want to delete
2. Click on the ... button and then select Delete in the dropdown
3. Confirm the action in the popin

Mass actions on asset

Mass add tag to a selection of assets

To save time you can mass add tag to an asset:

1. Select the assets thanks to the checkboxes in front of each asset row
2. A menu appears at the bottom of the screen. Click on the Mass edit assets button
3. Select Add tags to assets and click on the Next button in the top right corner
4. Select the tags you want to add to your assets
5. Click on Next
6. To finish, click on Confirm

A push message is displayed and the notification center displays a new notification.

Mass move assets into categories

You can move a selection of assets in new categories at once to earn time. The old categorization will be lost.

1. Select the assets thanks to the checkboxes in front of each asset row
2. A menu appears at the bottom of the screen. Click on the Mass edit assets button
3. Select Classify assets in categories and click on the Next button in the top right corner
4. Select the category in which you want your assets to be moved
5. Click on Next
6. To finish, click on Confirm

A push message is displayed and the notification center displays a new notification.

Mass delete assets

You can delete a selection of assets at once to earn time.

1. Select the assets thanks to the checkboxes in front of each asset row
2. A menu appears at the bottom of the screen. Click on the Delete assets button
3. Click on Delete to confirm your action

Export assets

To export assets, you need to use several export profiles, first of all, run a basic product export: it contains the assets codes associated to products. Then, you can run an assets variation export to get the asset's path on the server. In the exported file, you can find the original asset file path in the reference_file column and its channel's variations in the variation_file column.