The Assets tab
The Amplience CMS Assets tab streamlines your content production workflow letting you quickly perform key asset management tasks without the need to switch to Amplience DAM.
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To use the complete range of asset management features use Amplience DAM. For more information, see Limitations at the end of this page.
Using the Assets tabLink copied!
The Assets tab lets you do the following asset management tasks within Amplience CMS:
- Upload and publish assets, with the option to publish on upload
- Copy filenames to the clipboard
- Create sub folders
- Search for assets in the currently selected folder. Note, in addition to the asset label that is displayed on the screen, the search considers other text associated with an asset. This means you may see assets in the search results whose labels don’t match your search text. You can find all the fields and associated text for each asset in Amplience DAM. For tips about how to search for assets, follow the same rules as used for searching in Amplience DAM.
Managing the Assets tabLink copied!
To use the Assets tab to upload, organize and publish assets from Amplience CMS, it must first be provisioned on your account. The Assets tab is only available if you are using Amplience DAM to manage your assets.
To get the Assets tab provisioned, contact your Customer Success Manager or send an email to Amplience support. Your account administrator should make the request because the Assets tab is enabled on a per hub basis, not per user.
Assets tab provisioning optionsLink copied!
Amplience CMS users require permission to access asset stores and assets through the Assets tab. You will need to choose from the following two permissions options when requesting the Assets tab:
Give all users on the hub the same access (API key access)Link copied!
With this option, all the users will get the same access but they will only see asset stores that have been set up for the hub.
Use this option if you want your users to upload, view and publish all assets available to your hub.
Use existing Amplience DAM access for each userLink copied!
With this option, each user's access to the Assets tab features will mirror their existing Amplience DAM access. For example this may include restricting access to certain asset stores.
If you have multiple brands and keep assets for each brand in different asset stores, then you may want to choose this option to restrict which asset stores a user can access.
LimitationsLink copied!
The Assets tab introduces a subset of key asset management features into Amplience CMS. To access the complete range of asset management tasks, use Amplience DAM. For example, to move, delete or look at the properties of an asset you need to use Amplience DAM.
The following limitations apply to the Assets tab:
Distinguishing between published assets and latest published assetsLink copied!
Once an asset has been published, the publish status icon is the green cloud with a tick. If you subsequently change the image, the icon does not update to identify that the published version isn't the most recent. If you are unsure whether you are looking at the latest published version of an asset, check the publish status icon in Amplience DAM.
Deleting sub foldersLink copied!
You can create subfolders, but to delete them you must use Amplience DAM.
Uploading large filesLink copied!
When uploading large files you may experience a slight delay from when you click to start the upload to when the upload commences. When the upload commences, the 'upload in progress message' is displayed.
Uploading using drag and drop from FirefoxLink copied!
The drag and drop method for uploading files from a Firefox browser is not operational.