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General information

The assets can be organized in collections. The collection menu is located by default on the top bar. It is also possible to display the collections in the center of the home screen (in place of folder menu) by clicking on "All collections" under the Collections menu:

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Collections are individual. This means that every collection created by a specific user will only be visible to this user, unless they decide to share it with another user.

Sharing collections

Collections shared with other users are marked with the following symbol:

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In case of systems in which the login method is set to "login required", one has to set the config manager setting Allow shared collection users to bypass login required screen to "true", in order for the recipient to access the collection without having to log in.

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Currently, when sharing collections to external sites - one can choose to enable Server Side Rendering (SSR) which will make collections shared have better looking thumbnails when presented on social media. This, however, has the side effect, i.e. Media Manager in general will become noticeably slower, which is why this option is not enabled by default. To enable it, EnablePrerendering must be set to "true" in the Media Manager's appsettings.json file.

Sorting

It is possible to change the sorting order of the collections' list. The collections can be sorted either by name or by the order in which they were created. It can be done:

  1. from the drop-down list under the Collections menu - by selecting an option from the list that opens upon hovering over Order:
  2. in the main window view - by using the button in the upper right corner:

Other information

There are three methods of adding assets to the collection:

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  • sharing,
  • renaming,
  • downloading,
  • deleting an entire collection,
  • removing a single asset from a collection.

Creating a new collection out of selected assets

It is also possible to quickly create a new collection from the selected assets. There are three methods of achieving it:

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