Upload assets add-assets

To add new assets to work with, upload a few assets from your local file system.

You can use the following methods to upload one or more assets or a folder containing assets:

You can use any of these methods to upload assets after creating a folder. To create an empty folder, click Create Folder from the toolbar. While Assets Essentials offers a powerful, full-text search functionality, you can also use folders to organize your assets better.

Once you have selected the files, you get a confirmation dialog to add more files or to remove already selected files. To add more files to a selection, click Browse and the select Browse files or Browse folders. Add more files or folders from the same or from a different folder.

Once all files are queued, click Upload.

Figure: Before you upload the selected assets, you can add or remove assets from the queue.

View upload progress and status upload-progress

When you upload many assets or nested folders to Assets Essentials, some assets can fail to upload for various reasons such as duplicate asset and network issues.

To track the upload progress, click Upload Progress option on the toolbar. A panel displays the upload progress of all assets.

To view a subset of assets based on the upload progress or status, use the filter in the Upload Progress sidebar. The various filters are to display all assets, completed uploads, in-progress uploads, queued assets to be uploaded, paused uploads, duplicate assets, and assets that failed to upload.

Figure: Filter the assets that you attempted to upload based on their upload status or upload progress.

Immediately after the assets are uploaded, Assets Essentials processes the assets to generate thumbnail and process metadata. For many assets, the processing takes some time. If do not see a thumbnail and see a processing message on the placeholder thumbnail, check the folder again after a few minutes. During processing, amongst other things, Assets Essentials generates the renditions, adds smart tags, and indexes the asset details for search.

Figure: Uploaded assets display processing on the tile these are processed.

Asset renditions renditions

Assets Essentials processes the uploaded assets in near real time and for many supported file types, it generates renditions. Created for images, the renditions are resized versions of the uploaded image. You can download not just the asset but also the renditions to use an appropriate version. You can view all the renditions of an asset when you preview an asset.

Figure: View and download the renditions.

Manage failed uploads resolve-upload-fails

If upload of a supported asset fails for some reason, click Retry from the Upload Progress pane.

Figure: Retry if a supported file fails to upload for some reason.

If you attempt to upload duplicate assets, the assets are not uploaded until you explicitly confirm the upload. At first, the duplicate assets are marked as failed uploads. To resolve, you can simply create a version, delete and replace the existing assets, or create a duplicate copy by renaming the asset. You can resolve such failures one asset at a time or do it in bulk for all failed duplicates in one go.

Figure: For duplicate assets that fail to upload by default, resolve the issue one asset at a time.

Figure: For duplicate assets that fail to upload by default, resolve issues for all assets at once.

Delete assets or folders delete-assets

Users can delete individual assets or folders that are no longer required. To delete an asset or a folder do one of the following:

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