Link assets and folders with the enhanced connector
You can link an asset or folder from Experience Manager Assets to any Workfront object that supports documents. Assets sent from Experience Manager Assets don’t count towards your overall document storage in Workfront. Documents uploaded and sent from Workfront to Experience Manager Assets do count towards overall storage.
Access requirements
You must have the following access to perform the steps in this article:
*To find out what plan, license type, or access you have, contact your Workfront administrator.
Prerequisites
Before you begin, you must
- Install the Workfront for Experience Manager enhanced connector
Link an asset from Experience Manager Assets
You can link an asset from Experience Manager Assets to Workfront. Once the asset is linked you can
To link an asset to Experience Manager Assets:
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Go to the Documents area in Workfront where you want to add the document.
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Click Add new, then choose the Experience Manager Assets integration your administrator set up.
note note NOTE Any name may be chosen for this integration, so it may not specifically mention Experience Manager Assets. -
Select the assets you want.
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Click Link.
Link a folder from Experience Manager Assets
Permissions to view individual assets inside of a folder rely on Experience Manager Assets permissions.
To link a folder to Experience Manager Assets:
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Go to the Documents area in Workfront where you want to add the document.
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Click Add new, then choose the Experience Manager Assets integration your administrator set up.
note note NOTE Any name may be chosen for this integration, so it may not specifically mention Experience Manager Assets. -
Select the folders you want.
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Click Link.
Link a new version from Experience Manager Assets
You can pull a new asset over from Experience Manager Assets and add it to an existing asset as a new version in Workfront. If the document is already linked and a new version is added in Experience Manager Assets, the new version appears automatically in Workfront.
To link a new version from Experience Manager Assets:
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Go to the Documents area in Workfront where you want to add the document.
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Select the asset you want to replace with a new version. You can’t create a new version of an asset in a linked folder.
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Click Add new, then choose the Experience Manager Assets integration your administrator set up.
note note NOTE Any name may be chosen for this integration, so it may not specifically mention Experience Manager Assets. -
Select the asset you want.
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Click Link.