Bulk import assets using Assets Essentials

Sign in to your Dropbox account and click Create apps.
If you’re using an Enterprise Dropbox account, you need to have access to the Content Admin role.

In the Choose an API section, select the only available radio button.

In the Choose the type of access you need section, select one of the following options:

• Select App folder, if you need access to single folder created within your application in your Dropbox account.

• Select Full Dropbox, if you need access to all files and folders within your Dropbox account.

Specify a name for your application and click Create app.

In the Settings tab of your application, add https://experience.adobe.com to the Redirect URIs section.

Copy the values for the App key and App secret fields. The values are required while configuring the bulk import tool in AEM Assets.

On the Permissions tab, add the following permissions within the Individual scopes section.

• account_info.read

• files.metadata.read

• files.content.read

• files.content.write

Click Submit to save the changes.

Sign in to your OneDrive account and click New registration.

Specify a name for the application, select Accounts in this organizational directory only (Adobe only - Single tenant) from Supported account types.

Execute the following steps to add redirect URIs:

1. In the Select a platform dropdown menu, select Web.

2. Add https://experience.adobe.com to the Redirect URIs section.

Click Register. The application is created successfully.

Copy the values for the Application (client) ID and Directory (tenant) ID fields. The values are required while configuring the bulk import tool in AEM Assets.

Click Add a certificate or secret corresponding to Client credentials option.

Click New client secret, provide the client secret description, expiration and click Add.

After creating the Client Secret, copy the Value field (Do not copy the Secret ID field). It is required while configuring bulk import in AEM Assets.

Click Bulk Import in left pane and click Create Import.

Select the data source. The available options include Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, Dropbox and OneDrive.

Specify a name for the bulk import configuration in the Name field.

Specify the data source specific credentials, as mentioned in Prerequisites.

Provide name of the root folder that contains assets in the data source in the Source Folder field.

NOTE

If you are using Dropbox as the data source, specify the source folder path based on the following rules:

• If you select Full Dropbox while creating the Dropbox application and the folder which contains the assets exists at https://www.dropbox.com/home/bulkimport-assets, then specify bulkimport-assets in the Source Folder field.
• If you select App folder while creating the Dropbox application and the folder which contains the assets exists at https://www.dropbox.com/home/Apps/BulkImportAppFolderScope/bulkimport-assets, then specify bulkimport-assets in the Source Folder field, where BulkImportAppFolderScope refers to the name of the application. Apps is automatically added after home in this case.

(Optional) Select the Delete source file after import option to delete the original files from the source data store after the files are imported into Experience Manager Assets.

Select the Import Mode. Select Skip, Replace, or Create Version. Skip mode is the default and in this mode, the ingestor skips to import an asset if it exists already.

(Optional) Specify the metadata file to import, provided in CSV format, in the Metadata File field. The metadata source file must be in the source folder. Click Next to navigate to Location & Filters.

To define a location in DAM where assets are to be imported using the Assets Target Folder field, specify a path. For example, /content/dam/imported_assets.

(Optional) In the Choose Filters section, provide the minimum file size of assets in MB to include them in the ingestion process in the Filter by Min Size field.

(Optional) Provide the maximum file size of assets in MB to include them in the ingestion process in the Filter by Max Size field.

(Optional) Select the MIME types to include in the ingestion process using the Include MIME Type field. You can select multiple MIME types within this field. If you do not define a value, all MIME types are included in the ingestion process.

(Optional) Select the MIME types to exclude in the ingestion process using the Exclude MIME Type field. You can select multiple MIME types within this field. If you do not define a value, all MIME types are included in the ingestion process.

Click Next. Select one of the following options as per your preference:

• Save import to save the configuration for now so that you can run it later.
• Save & run import to save the configuration and run the bulk import.
• Save & schedule import to save the configuration and schedule the bulk import for a later time. You can choose the frequency of the bulk import and set the date and time for the import. The bulk import will run on the set date and time in the chosen frequency.

Click Save to execute the selected option.

Click corresponding to the configuration name available in the Executed Imports or Saved Imports tab and click Schedule. You can also reschedule an existing scheduled import by navigating to Scheduled Imports tab and clicking Schedule.

Set a one-time ingestion or schedule an hourly, a daily, or a weekly schedule. Click Submit.