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Asset view mode
The assets made available for the Adobe Creative Cloud channel are displayed under the folders. In "Preferences" the user can select, whether the assets are displayed as boxes or as a list by default upon starting the application. The view affects both the assets and the folders.
Regardless of the default choice, the user can toggle between the two views by clicking on one of the buttons under the search icon.
This is how the connector looks like with the grid view enabled:
This is how the conector looks like with the list view enabled:
By default, the first 25 assets are displayed. The user can access more assets by clicking "Load more".
Quick asset information
It is possible to view a larger asset thumbnail together with a number of quick asset information by double-clicking an asset. This will result in a new display:
The metadata shown under the asset are read-only. The user can edit the metadata by accessing the same aset in either the DAM Center or Media Manager.
In this view the user can also access the download option by clicking the icon in the upper right corner.
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Asset overview
The current version of the Creative Cloud Connector supports grid view (as presented on the screenshot below), which acts in the same way as in the Media Manager™, i.e. it offers the users an overview through asset cards.
The asset cards all contain the following information:
Asset thumbnail
Asset extension
Title
Shortened description
The Insert button which allows for using the asset in the working space of the currently use Creative Connector product
The lock which indicates whether the asset is checked in or out. The green lock icon in an open position means that the asset is not checked out, and it can be clicked in order to check the asset out.
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The connector uses pagination to display the available assets. The asset overview always shows 12 assets per page/query.
The page navigation can be found at the bottom on the page.
The user can move between pages by pressing the arrows to go to an adjacent page, selecting a visible page number and by pressing the three dots and selecting a specific page to jump to.
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Previewing an asset
It is possible to access an asset’s preview page by clicking on it. This gives the user a larger preview of the asset thumbnail, as well as a number of metadata fields in read-only mode.
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By clicking the Use button beneath the thumbnail and selecting a quality, the user can insert the asset into an open document.
The lock button indicates whether the assets is checked out or free to be used. If it is checked out by another user, then the current use can hover the mouse pointer over the lock icon and access the details of the check-out.
In order to go back to the asset overview, the user can simply click on the arrow in the upper left corner.