Using the Asset Manager

You can open the Asset Manager by clicking the Assets link in the top navigation bar of the Dashboard. This will bring you to the Asset Manager page. This will take you to the Asset Manager homepage, where you can upload, search, organize, and browse your assets.

The Asset Manager homepage will show the List View, which you can use to browse all of your assets in a particular Source. You can switch between Sources by selecting from the Source dropdown in the upper left corner (you will not see a dropdown option if your Asset Manager setup has only one Source with assets).

By default, assets are sorted by Date Created, with the most recent assets first. The other supported sorts are Date Updated and File Size. All sorts can be either ascending or descending.

Searching

Keyword Search

Typing in the search box near the top of the screen will execute a keyword search. This will search across multiple pre-determined fields, such as the image origin path, the name, description, tag, category, custom field, etc. Exact behavior is subject to change.

Tag Search

Searching can be performed by tag. Navigate to an image and click on one of its tags to execute a search for other images with the same tag.

Category Search

Searching can be performed by category. Navigate to an image and click on one of its categories to execute a search for other images with the same category.

Color Search

Searching can be performed by color. Navigate to an image and click on one of its color swatches to execute a search for other images with a similar color.

Advanced Search

To perform more complex searches, click on “Advanced” in the right side of the search bar. Use Advanced Filters to search based on tags, categories, custom fields, colors, folder path, content alerts, faces, animations, file types, and whether the image has been edited by a user. Selecting multiple filters will execute a search for images that meet the criteria of all of the filters.

Image Details

Clicking on an image thumbnail in the List View will load that image’s details in the Info Panel on the right.

The Info Panel displays metadata, AI-powered tags, user-defined categories, user-defined custom fields, content alerts, and color data. Each section can be toggled open or closed and Asset Manager will remember the closed/open state per device/browser.

Note: Asset Manager has a 500MB limit for each image.

Refreshing an asset

If you have made changes to an image at your origin and would like to see those changes reflected in Asset Manager, you can refresh the asset. To refresh an asset, navigate to the image in Asset Manager and click the “Refresh” button in the upper right corner of the Info Panel. This will re-fetch the image.

Refreshing will also reprocess the image for content alerts and any AI-generated information such as smart tagging and alt-text, but it will not clear any manually added metadata such as categories or custom fields.

Image Detail View

The image detail view shows an image at a larger size and at its original aspect ratio. Open the image detail view either by clicking on an already-selected image thumbnail in the list view or by double-clicking on an image thumbnail in the list view. Exit the image detail view by clicking the “x” in the upper left corner or by pressing Esc on your keyboard.

The image detail view also has an option in the upper right corner to show or hide the image. Hiding an image will pixelate the image so that the original content is no longer discernible, and showing an image will restore the original image. Showing or hiding an image only has an effect within Asset Manager; it does not impact the actual rendering of the image outside of Asset Manager. Once an image is shown or hidden, it will remain that way inside Asset Manager, though that state will not be saved across browsers/devices or across users.

By default, any image that scores “Likely” or higher in the Adult or Violent category will be shown as hidden.

Uploading

You can upload images by clicking the Upload button in the upper right corner of Asset Manager or by dragging and dropping files into the List View.

For more information on configuring uploading in Asset Manager, see the Uploading page.

Video Status

When video is enabled on a Source, compatible input formats will be automatically detected and transcoded. Video transcoding will end with one of the following statuses:

• Processing: The video is currently being processed by our service.
• Processed: The video has been successfully converted and can now be served through the imgix.video domain. It will remain until it is detected to have been deleted from the bucket.
• Errored: There was an issue while processing the video. Issues might be due to one of the following:
  • Incorrect input format: the video was detected in the bucket but is incompatible with the current supported formats.
  • File too short: video files must be a minimum of 0.5 seconds in length.
  • File inaccessible: issue accessing file in bucket.

If a video was processed and is deleted, it should disappear from your Asset Manager within 72 hours. If a deleted video persists for more than 72 hours, or if you have a video that is unexpectedly missing in the Asset Manager, please contact support with your video URL.

Asset Manager Settings

The Asset Manager Settings page allows users to edit their created categories and custom fields keys. Access this page by clicking on the link in the Account Settings page or by clicking on the gear icon in the upper right corner of the Asset Manager.

Editing a category or a custom field key will automatically update that category or custom field key for every image that is associated with that metadata. Deleting a category or custom field key will remove that metadata from every image with which it is currently associated. Note: Deleting a category or a custom field key is not reversible, so proceed with caution.