Brand Portal - Adobe Experience Manager Asset Series

introduce our presenters for today. Bridget Roman, Senior Product Marketing Manager, AEM Assets, and Rajeev Badgandhi, Lead Solution Architect, AEM. Bridget, you now have the floor.

Great, thank you so much Anu, I appreciate it and welcome everyone. We’re really happy to have you here today. I’m not sure if this is your first Skill Builder webinar or if you’ve been attending the entire series, but I did want to just take a moment to go through, excuse me, where we are within the series. So our AEM Asset Skill Builder program consists of five different webinars and they’re really focused on the top areas of interest within AEM assets. The top five things you really need to kind of know inside and out to get the most of AEM assets and your investment in your AEM. So we’ve already covered folder structure and search. We last week went through a really nice deep dive on metadata. Today obviously we’re going to be talking about brand portal and then be sure to sign up if you haven’t already for the next two sessions. So next week we’ll be covering dynamic media with Joe Pearl, one of our resident experts on rich media solutions. And then the final of the five is all about Adobe AssetLink, which is our native connection to Creative Cloud. So the product manager for this capability, Greg Klebes, will be presenting along with me and we’ll talk about this amazing capability that sits with inside Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and XD and gives your creative direct access to the dam. So that’s our lineup and again we’re happy to have you here. We’re going to dive in and just quickly review what we’ll talk about during the webinar today. So we’ve got five key topics we’ll dive into. I’m going to take you through the value of brand portal. I did notice in the surveys about 70 percent of you are already using brand portal today. 30 percent are not but are considering it. So I think you’re going to find out a lot of you already know the value of brand portal. We’re going to show you even more though all of the best practices and ways to get more out of your brand portal, how to drive more adoption and use of brand portal because that’s really what it’s all about. You know delivering out those final assets and getting building that audience who’s coming in and downloading assets from your portal. We’ll go through the best practices for setting up brand portal and also best practices around asset distribution and asset sourcing. So when we talk about asset sourcing it was interesting in the in the survey as well. It was about 50-50 where some of you said half of you said you don’t receive assets from partners or outside agencies half of you do. And within about the last year we added the capability to source assets through brand portal and that essentially means your constituents are able to upload assets into the brand portal and Rajeev’s going to take us through what that looks like and how to get the most out of that capability. And then at the end I’m just going to do a quick comparison of brand portal and some other capability we offer called asset share commons. So in case you’ve been hearing about asset share commons and want to learn more about why or why not that might be the better answer for you I’ll take you through that toward the end as well. Before completely diving in I do want to mention and I think you already mentioned it but load up that Q&A pod we’re going to save time at the end for Q&A and we’d love to get all your questions answered during this session and then be sure to check out all of the links in the resource pod. There’s some general AEM assets content in there the user guide etc and then we’ve got some specific things around brand portal there so you can click on that at any point throughout the webinar. Okay so let’s take a peek at the value of brand portal and I think as I mentioned many of you today are already using brand portal so you’re probably already familiar with this but let’s for those of you who need a little bit of a primer on you know what the beauty and the importance of brand portal is let’s kind of go through that. First of all this comes with AEM assets and your AEM assets license it’s included out of the box with your investment in the dam. So you’ve got access to this right now and you already have a brand portal URL that has been provisioned with authority provisions so right out of the gate it’s something that you have access to today and we really designed brand portal with that non-technical user in mind so within a matter of days the more non-technical folks on your team can actually set this up with branding, a login experience, metadata search and permission. So again really quick to get started right out of the box and it offers real-time publishing of your finished assets to brand portal so your external audiences and that can be people outside of your company like I mentioned partners agencies and it can also be the people within your company who need access to those final assets so real-time publishing real-time accessibility. We can automatically get this set up to send notifications to users and again easily sourcing assets from external audiences so I mentioned a moment ago within the past six to 12 months we added that capability to be able to upload assets into brand portal so we’re going to get into that shortly but those are kind of the key values of our brand portal offering. I think it’s important to mention probably a lot of you already have felt the pain of what can happen when assets are shared in an unsecure environment and this is one of the core elements of brand portal and how it can help your asset sharing workflow and keep you safe essentially so obviously there are increased brand compliance issues, lack of control over asset use again when you’re sharing in an unsecure environment late timing pushing campaigns and products launches late due to mistakes around using old brand, any type of out-of-date assets so you can imagine you probably again experiences where things can definitely go sideways if you’re sharing unsecured and old assets. There’s of course the potential for asset duplication across geos and organizations so do you know if your constituents are using the most current asset available and then of course pre-release assets being stored in unsecure locations so these are all kind of those risks you have to consider if you’re putting a lot of your final assets in Dropbox and SharePoint and all of these other third-party type of repositories where you really lose control over versioning and that type of thing. When we think about the user of brand portal we really break this down into two different personas the first one which we call the power user and these are really your marketers your IT folks people who need to be in there all the time they’re involved in workflows, metadata, review and approval, they need full access to the dam and all of the dam capabilities they’re really deep into that whole asset workflow and they’re the ones uploading these assets into brand portal. Then you have the consumer, the asset consumer, so these are the folks I’ve mentioned the partners, the agencies, the vendors, resellers, any of those folks who need to access those final documents, final assets that you want to share out so the thing about that lighter that light user that asset consumer we don’t want to bog them down with a really heavy interface or give them access to all the content in your dam so this is the perfect use case for brand portal it’s something that’s great for a non-technical user to be able to go in easily find what they’re looking for download it and move on with their day so again these are the two types of users and you probably can think of the people within your organization who fall into these categories. Okay so with that I’m going to hand over to Rajeev we’re going to kind of get under the hood and dive in first thing we’ll look at is our best practices for setting up brand portal so Rajeev take it away. Thanks project all right I’m going to share my screen hope you are able to see the login screen for brand portal all right so after hearing that exciting introduction to brand portal let’s look at how to effectively set up your brand portal for maximum value and maximum adoption the first aspect of the setup we’re going to look at is the login itself so there are different ways that users can get into brand portal and one of the easiest ways is something called the guest access now there are many scenarios where you necessarily don’t want to onboard all the users onto brand portal if the need is simply to share assets with the external world this is a great way so any user with the link to brand portal can come in and click on the guest access and they can easily get into brand portal and as a guest user what they have access to is the folders that have been already set up and designated for public access these could be folders or these could be collections we’ll look at what collections are but essentially as the power users in brand portal you can designate specific folders or collections that people can access without necessarily having to log into brand portal so that’s the first option there are ways to have the end users request for access so that sends a message to the administrator and they can enable the access but the most predominant way that people access brand portal would be through the adobe id login so you can have brand portal hooked up to your ldap or sso systems and use that login so in this case i’m using my adobe id and adobe has enabled a cool way of a two-factor authentication so i’m just going to enable that approves that and then get in so this is as i said this would be probably the way that most users who are identified users of brand portal you know they would come into inside the brand portal using this approach now i am logging in as an administrator into brand portal so i do have a lot of you know basically access to all the controls and the setup and configuration options but depending on how you set up users the roles that you locate for the users they have access to the functionalities as well as depending on how the folder structure has been set up and the access control has been set up they get access to folders that they are supposed to see the next aspect of the configuration that we can look at is around the branding itself now as you may have noticed on the login page you had this wallpaper you had a welcome greeting you had a message on you know how to reach out for help and so on once you log in you have this big header image so these are all elements that add up to the brand experience of brand portal and branding would be an important aspect of the whole experience especially when you’re working with users you know who are outside your enterprise so i am going into the tools section by clicking on the logo on the top and i see these different cards that are available for the setup the first one being branding this is where i can control you know the wall before that shown on the login page the welcome greeting post login the header image and there are certain notifications that are sent out from brand portal so you can even control the logos that are embedded as part of those notifications so that’s a quick uh you know preview of what you know how you can control the look and feel and the branding for this brand portal next let’s look at some other controls that we have again going back into the tools section there are a host of options that will help you set up brand portal uh you know for effective use for example search form so when users come into brand portal obviously the main purpose would be to locate for the access that they’re searching for so they would use the search form and with the search form control here you would be able to control the various filters and options that the users have while they’re searching through the repository for assets next thing would be around the dynamic media so if you have an account with dynamic media you can configure your brand portal to connect with dynamic media and then set up the image presets and the video profiles so that the users do have access to all the nice capabilities of dynamic media while they are consuming assets from brand portal so they can look at the different renditions and download the renditions that they want to download the next important feature i want to highlight is around the metadata schema so as you know as part of your dam you would have invested a lot of time and effort in defining the right metadata schemas for the different types of assets when those assets get approved and published often you don’t want to expose all the last amount of metadata that you have but you may want to pick and choose specific areas of metadata that should be accessible for the external users now that’s where the metadata schema of brand portal comes into play so in brand portal you can configure the metadata schemas for the different asset types and decide which metadata fields should be visible for users on brand portal when they view the assets or download them so that’s a really important control that you should possibly exercise other than that there are many smaller settings for example if you want to allow guest access you can disable that if you’re not willing to expose assets without login you can enable or disable the ability to delete files and folders from brand portal and you know have that access only for the administrators and so on there are a few more so the last one i want to highlight again is an important one around reporting so in brand portal it allows you to create a few reports around specific dimensions so if i click on create you will see that you have the option to create reports on different actions on different events in brand portal like downloads expiring assets publish link shares user logins so these are typically important areas of brand portal usage that you want to track so you can very easily set up reports for example i have set up a report for all the publishers publish access that were done in the last year so i have a complete list of all the access their parts and all i am able to download this report for offline consumption so reporting would be a very useful tool in the long run or the maintenance of your brand portal so that’s a quick look into the different aspects of the brand portal now let me stop sharing and go back to the slide view and let’s look at some of the best practices that you should keep in mind while setting up brand portal so the slides coming up but essentially the first thing to note is it’s important to understand who your users of the brand portal are what would be their needs what are the use cases that they would expect from brand portal and setting up brand portal and all its configurations keeping that in mind i’m not able to see the slides is that the case with everybody i am seeing the slides okay there you go yeah i’m not able to see but let me just continue and come back to the slides a little later so first thing is knowing your users and the needs second thing would be to take care of setting up the information architecture and the folder structure in a way that it reflects the business needs and the business requirements of your organization so that the adoption of brand portal is that much easier for the users and they are really deriving value out of the platform third is making sure that you’re using the right security measures as we went through the different ways of authenticating into the system so you may have different groups of users that are part of different organizations so it’s important to plan how you want to authenticate all those users and bring them into brand portal the next aspect is you know how where do you host brand portal this really depends on where the majority of the user base is geographically and you can choose a hosting location such that brand portal works efficiently and performs well and gives a good user experience next aspect as again we said branding is an important aspect of the entire experience for your ecosystem of external users so use all the capabilities of the configurations of branding to make sure that you offer a good experience and lastly use the reporting to really monitor the usage of brand portal look at you know what are the popular asset types you know how are users using those assets what are the popular actions on these assets and use that data to further optimize the brand portal for the future viewers so these are some key considerations i’d request Bridget to take the next section all right great so we’re going to transition after seeing how to set up your brand portal we’re going to transition into asset distribution and how that works within brand portal and asset distribution is obviously the most common use case that all of our customers care about it’s kind of the reason that we’re all here today to figure out okay how do i share those approved ready to distribute assets in a secure environment asset distribution is obviously a great way to clean up all of the different kind of non-conforming ways that your teams are sharing final assets today i kind of alluded to some at the beginning but we know that customers email them put them on share drive they use sharepoint dropbox google etc brand portal is a terrific way to clean all of that up and you can see just through this very simplistic illustration here this is essentially on the author side on the left this is the aem assets dam this is where all of the final assets in progress assets are sitting within a corporation or organization brand portal shows a subset of those approved digital assets within that environment for your users to come and get and download so again sort of taking everything that’s within the large dam and being very selective and curate what you want to put in your brand portal and make that a very user-friendly experience for those non-technical people within and outside of the company so from there we’re going to check that out and see a demo okay yeah thank you all right so sharing my screen again and for the asset distribution use case i’m going to start as the power user on my aem assets the author side or the dam and that’s where the workflow really starts so as um as a marketer i am working on assets through its life cycle having got them created reviewed approved now i’m ready to share these assets to the external world to my partners and customers for them to use it in the rest of these cases so let’s say i have created these new images for the february sales campaign that i want to distribute so i in the interest of time already created the folder and uploaded these assets here i’m working on my local aem assets offer all i need to do is select that folder and choose publish to brand portal from quick publish and as you can see it’s a fairly simple step to push assets from your enterprise dam into the brand portal for external consumption now before we switch to brand portal i also wanted to show the different ways we have for us to publish these assets first one as we already saw quick publish gives us an immediate way of publishing assets to brand portal but if you go to manage publication you have a few more options so i can publish to brand portal either immediately or i can schedule the time at which the publish has to happen and this is important when you are dealing with assets that are time bound and you’re working with campaigns that are supposed to be active for specific time so you can use this feature to schedule the publish and similarly you can also unpublish folders from brand portal and do that right from within the aem asset so you have that control from your native interface now let’s switch back to brand portal go back to the root and i should have yeah the february sale folder is something that i published so i have access to all the folders the files and if you have the feature of smart tagging being used in your aem asset system all those auto suggested tags along with the rest of the metadata get published to brand portal and the end users have access to all of that which content and the assets now having published i think an important capability for the end users on brand portal is the ability to discover assets and not just by the logical structuring of the folder but the ability to search so the brand portal search the experience is very similar to the omni search if you have used it on aem assets so for example if i search for a banner obviously it will bring up assets that match that based on the metadata or the tags that are associated with the assets the thing to note is the search results are permission sensitive so depending on who’s searching and whether that user has access to the particular asset after qualifying all of that the assets come up in the search results further you have access to a lot of filters and facets here that you can further drill down your search results and you have the ability to store these search criteria as saved searches for example you have a saved search here called Adobe Summit if i choose that it brings up a set of configuration configured facets that were stored under this name and similarly you can create new smart collections so if you choose a certain set of filters and save that as a smart collection now the cool thing about smart collection is in the future when you come back and revisit the smart collection and if there are new assets that are qualified for those criteria those also show up as part of the smart collection so it’s in that sense a living dynamic collection of images so that is smart collection now let’s go back to the regular collection feature as well so along with the folder the folder way of organizing assets you have this capability for collections again very similar to what you have in AEM assets and the value here is if you are working with assets that are really scattered across multiple folders and it’s hard to work on assets that are spread across so that’s where you can create a collection pull all those assets together from the different locations in the repository and logically group them into a collection for example Adobe Summit is a collection now it has a bunch of assets but physically speaking they may be residing in different folders in different locations but because they’re all related to Adobe Summit I have logically pulled them together as part of this collection and having pulled the assets as part of collection I then have the option to do more actions on the entire bunch as a unit so I can download the entire collection I can share the collections with external users and so on now let’s dive a little deeper so we have spoken about distribution of assets in different ways now we published approved assets from the dam into brand portal we saw how to navigate through the brand portal search for assets add them to collections now how can from brand portal how can we share assets to internal and external users so there are different ways you can do that so if you choose a particular folder you have an option to share so once you click on share either you can specifically share with named users or groups that are part of brand portal already so if a if a folder was originally not accessible to a group with this way you can actually enable access to that particular group or you see this public folder this is how you designate this folder for access to the guest users that we saw during the first part of the demo so these are like two options of sharing a particular folder and you can similarly share individual assets you can do the same thing on collections as well and the last thing from a sharing perspective that I want to show is you have shared link capability now this is useful when you want to share these assets to users who are not really part of brand portal so you can actually put in any email address and they will get a link a direct link to that particular folder or a collection that you’re sharing and you can put in a message and you can set an expiration date so essentially that link will be active for that person with whom you have shared and they’ll be able to download view these assets until that time and once the expiration date sets in they won’t be able to access it anymore so that’s another good way of sharing assets especially with users who are not part of the brand portal system with that let’s switch back to the slides and look at some of the best practices from a distribution perspective yeah I’ll let the slides come up but I think needless to say that when you think about distribution you have to make sure that you are sharing approved assets and that’s the whole idea of brand portal that the assets have gone through the complete life cycle within your AAM assets then and once they are ready for consumption that is when you publish them out to the outer world take care of the users groups and permissioning making sure that the right people have the right access and this is in turn related to how you design your folder hierarchy in a logical way such that it makes sense for the users to be able to browse and find the assets that they want leverage collection as I said folders are not the solution all the time I think collections come in handy in many situations where they are delivered quite a variety of assets brand portal has the ability to you know enable download acceleration there is a connectivity with IBM Aspera download accelerator so you can make use of that to really make the download experience much faster guest access is a great way if you plan it well you can really share assets to a large number of external users without really going through the pain of you know qualifying them and onboarding them into your brand portal system and largely if basically when you’re dealing with a large volume of assets and you want to publish them between AAM assets and your brand portal plan it out for after hours not having the network for the rest of the actions that your AAM assets may be involved and not brand portal may be involved so these are some of the best practices from our asset distribution perspective thank you you project great thank you thanks for all the questions we’re keeping track of your questions if you’ve been putting them in the q a pod and as I mentioned earlier we’ll get to those toward the end so let’s for now dive into best practices for asset sourcing I mentioned earlier that the asset sourcing capability is relatively new to brand portal but this is this is really where brand portal becomes a collaborative tool and if you’re not using this capability yet I think you’ll get a lot out of this section because what you’re going to see is basically how we’ve built this asset sourcing capability so that there’s a really structured approach to enabling your partners and agencies and internal constituents to upload assets into brand portal you’ll even see how we’re enabling the ability to create separate folders for individual agencies and really making sure that when content is uploaded it’s partitioned not able to be seen by people who shouldn’t see it and that type of thing so this just shows again a very simplistic illustration but it’s kind of the opposite view of what we just looked at which is um pushing content up through brand portal and then into the AEM asset dam and so I think from here we’re going to see a demo of exactly how this whole asset sourcing capability works. Thank you. Right, sharing my screen again for the asset sourcing again this is a very exciting feature that I know that a lot of customers have requested for since sometime and this was introduced last year so the whole workflow for sourcing assets from external agencies or partners starts from the AEM assets the enterprise dam now again I am logged in as a power user in my enterprise dam and in this case I am using my local instance so I start the workflow by creating something called a contribution folder and the way you create is create a new folder let’s say I am creating a new campaign for spring 21 and I’m trying to get some new banners created through the creative agency so while creating the folder I have this option called the asset contribution I need to check that further I have the ability to give some description meaningful description and also I have the ability to upload a brief document now the brief document is something that contains the details of the ask to the creative agency what is it that I’m trying to source what sort of assets what should the agency know while creating those assets so all of that can be part of a document and that document can be attached with this contribution folder I’m going to skip that for now the other important thing is when creating a contribution folder I can actually designate who the contributors for this folder are now the reason is and we’ve come to this when we discuss the best practices you may be dealing with multiple agencies so you may want to plan and create your contribution folders and designate specific users to be able to contribute assets there so I created my contribution folder I can see it here and the the essence of a contribution folder is when I go in it has automatically created these two subfolders now the purpose is in the shared folder I pass on any building blocks or any inputs that I want to give to my agency that the agency will use and then create the output that I’m expecting from them so let’s say I go into the shared folder and I am going to upload these two logos that I want them to use as part of you know while they create the banners that I am expecting from them so I upload them in the shared folder and I go back to the root and I simply publish this contribution folder to brand portal so as you can see the publish action is no different even in this case it will take a minute for that to get published so switching to brand portal I refresh my screen and I see here spring 2021 folder appearing here now in brand portal I have logged in as the user from the creative agency and I go into the contribution folder I do have access to these input you know the baseline assets that have been provided that I can use while creating the assets and let’s say I have now created the assets as per the requirement given so let me upload the new assets that I have created and I’ll go back to the root folder now because this folder is a contribution folder when I select that I have a new option here called publish to AEM and as the name sounds essentially it pushes back these assets from brand portal back into the AEM assets offer so let me trigger that and this particular feature takes about five minutes for the sync to happen so let’s talk about a few best practices while we wait for those images that the new assets to sync into AEM let me stop sharing and go back to the slides and then we can come back to the screen share a little later okay I will wait for the screen to load up but quickly the best practices while planning for asset sourcing are firstly there are different ways you can plan the creation of your sourcing folders or the contribution folders or you would the twitch okay yeah I can see the slide now so the best practices for planning your asset sourcing is firstly it has to be planned because you will be dealing with multiple agencies to decide how you want to structure your contribution folders secondly who you know from that agency should have the ability to contribute assets into the contribution folders so there is a new role created in brand portal called the contributor so that’s different from the editor and the previous roles that we had in brand portal so with that role they will be able to upload assets into the new folder that we just saw second thing is that you can create the contribution folders in multiple ways one is you can create short-lived you know special specific campaign specific contribution folders that you can create just for a short while get the assets sourced once that workflow is done you know kill that particular contribution folder that is one approach the second could be that you work regularly with specific creative agencies or partners and you want to designate contribution folders for them that are going to stay on for a long time so it’s important to plan this out well in advance and create those contribution folders appropriately with the right access and the right users and also have a governance model i think it’s a good practice to review the list of such contribution folders that have been created at some frequency and periodically clean them up because you know the number of contribution folders tends to kind of accumulate over a period of time so it’s better to clean that up and also working with the agencies obviously you need to segregate contributions folders by agency but even within an agency i think it’s a good practice to review at some frequency who the users are that are contributing and who should have access and plan that and curate the users who will be accessing and uploading the assets into the contribution folder so these are some of the best practices let’s switch back to the screen share i hope that we give enough time for those assets to sync back now this we uploaded it in brand portal now i’m switching back to my am assets in my chrome browser and i’m going to refresh let’s hope that we have passed five minutes yeah and that’s where you see that the new assets have come in these are the assets that we had uploaded into brand portal in a new folder that has come back and then you know once these assets come back into am assets you can run these new assets through the regular workflows of reviews and approvals and make sure that they are compliant with all the requirements that you have and then you know put them into use in the different channels and for the different purposes and at the same time take care of the contribution folder depending on the strategy if it was meant to be a short-lived one you can just go back to this unpublished option that we had seen earlier and publish that from brand portal and it will disappear from there so that’s kind of a quick recap of you know how the whole asset sourcing as a functionality works the workflow starting from the enterprise stand publishing assets to brand portal and sourcing the assets into the new folder and then having them synced back to am author so yeah that’s that’s all i had to share present overview for the next section okay great so we’re going to talk just momentarily about the difference between brand portal and asset share commons i already saw a couple of questions in the pod about this so i want to just make sure everybody walks away with a clear understanding of the differences here so what i’m showing on this slide is just kind of the top three ideas around what asset share commons actually is so where brand portal is an out of the box easy to configure kind of quick to get started for non-technical users asset share commons is a much more bespoke experience it’s a configurable media portal for custom branded really unique asset distribution experiences so there’s no user licensing costs for searching and downloading and so like with brand portal we’re really concerned with the number of users and the repository size these are not concerns with asset share commons because it’s a publishing instance of aem sites and it offers kind of this drag and drop building block experience to create custom branded interfaces without it or development resources let’s let’s kind of look at the options and when we started this session i did take note that most of you on this call are already using brand portal but it’s never you know certainly never a bad thing to have more information than less when it comes to all the different options afforded to you so when we look at this we kind of just laid this out in terms of complexity and we really view brand portal as something on that lower end of complexity as you’ve seen it’s got a more generic user interface the ability to customize is limited it can get to market really quickly there are very fixed implementation costs and it’s right out of the box we’ve covered all of that today in detail with asset share commons you get as i said earlier it’s bespoke so you can create a much more branded and customized user experience and we do see many of our larger brands actually using asset share commons to create this highly custom experience for those those portal users it takes longer to get this to market because it requires custom development and also there would be implementation costs associated with it of course because there is development work required so there are certainly trade-offs here in which one is best for you if you need to get up and running quickly and you’re okay with something that’s a more simplified ui brand portal is a great experience you really want to do something very very specific to your brand create a more specific experience this asset share commons is something to explore as well okay that brings me to we’re kind of through the brand portal content for you today i did want to before we dive into q a i did want to just give a plug for adobe summit and for those of you who don’t know what adobe summit is it is our biggest conference of the year for the marketing cloud side of our business and experience manager has a big footprint at adobe summit not just aem assets but sites and forms and all of the um all of the kind of digital marketing solutions that we offer so this is free it’s happening april 27th and 28th and there’s a link in the resource pod to get to the main page but it’s summit.adobe.com and i wanted to call out if any of you have joined our prior webinars over the last few weeks i’ve shown this slide a few times but it’s worth mentioning and showing you all the various sessions that are specific to aem assets and dynamic media we’ll have some really good customer presentations and a lot of our technical experts are also going to present be presenting these various topics so highly recommend you check these out and sign up it is free as i mentioned and it’s a great opportunity to hear these sessions ask questions obviously we’ve done this in person in las vegas in years past this year’s open to everybody there’s no cost to it so it’s just a great opportunity for all of you all right and with that let’s move into q and a we have been collecting your questions so rajit i’m going to quiz you now on all the great questions that we’ve gotten throughout this session are you ready yeah try our best okay all right first question do agency partners have to have aem licenses to be able to log into brand portal yeah the uh users who log into brand portal are counted against the brand portal license so the licensing model for brand portal has a dimension of user licensing so they have to they are counted against that yeah and that’s a that’s a light user versus the standard user when your life that’s right in the product all right next question let’s see would you suggest that brand portal asset contribution could present a solution to enable thousands of partners contributing product images to aem some of our partners will only contribute a small number of product images but others could be anticipated to contribute hundreds or thousands of images is this something that you’ve seen in operation that’s a good question um most use cases i have seen this being used for is to mitigate the challenges with the collaboration with these external agencies rather than uh solve the problem for uh sourcing like product images that run into thousands so it’s more the collaboration problem that is being addressed here although i don’t know if there’s a limit on the number of assets that can be uploaded through the contribution folders but yeah if the use case is really to do with product images from something like a pem integration so probably this is not the best you know mechanism to address that all right so next one would it be possible to create a collection of images of a particular dimension for example all images 600 by 300 to fit a specific banner size yeah very interesting question i haven’t seen a filter that’s uh defined by the size of the image i think we’ll have to explore if dynamic i know that dynamic media gives you the capability to extract images by dimensions i need to check if that can be included as a filter as part of the search criteria yeah don’t don’t have a specific answer right now on that okay we’ll have to research that one so is there a way especially in the dynamic dynamic media direction yeah that’s a very good point we can do a follow up on that one also i think we know who asked that question okay so is there a way to push assets to customers and or notify them when assets change i don’t think that’s a possibility today at least not that i have seen that capability in brand portal okay have you seen anyone um custom hang on one second have you seen any custom asset share commons provide for asset contribution accepting assets into the dam versus sharing assets from the dam so in other words have we seen someone use asset share commons to also include asset sourcing the way we have an in-brand portal i think that’s what the question is yeah not many customers but yeah i know of a few of the customers who have had this need to bring back assets from asset share and since asset share commons technically speaking is a website using components built for aem it’s possible to uh you know enable this capability of having users upload assets and then push them back into your author so yeah technically it’s possible okay terrific and that is it for our q and a so thanks everybody we’ve just pulled up our final kind of closing polling questions i’d love to get your feedback here it helps us improve for the next time and we really appreciate that and then i’ll just make one more plug for all the resources that are in the resource pod that you can click through that link to the adobe summit landing page we’ve got the recordings of our past webinar series the field builder series the aem assets user guide there’s a brand portal overview a page on asset sourcing in our health documentation and also more information about asset share commons if that kind of piqued your interest today when you heard more about that okay rajiv any last comments from you i think we’re ready to wrap things up today nope i’m good yeah lots to explore in brand photos so it’s exciting all right anu i’m going to hand it back over to you to close things up and thanks everybody thank you bridget thank you rajiv and thank you to all of you who joined us