CCC5.7 Making inserted assets relate to your Adobe asset (Asset relation)
- Brian Bak Laursen
- Gosia Creosteanu (Unlicensed)
- Kasper Svane
This feature is dependent on MM 5.5.4’s update scripts having been run.
This feature enables Media Manager users to go to any Adobe asset created by using the CCC, and see which other assets are used within it.
The feature will be referred to as “Asset relation“.
Configuration
Dam Center
When the Creative cloud connector - Asset linktype relation is set in the DAM Center → ConfigManager → Media Manager 5 → 5.0.0 → [Your version], then the Asset Relation feature can be used in the Creative Cloud Connector.
You should never edit the 5.0.0’s data. Always edit a sub-version of 5.0.0.
Using the Asset Relation feature
Creative Cloud Connector
When a document is uploaded or replaced in the CCC, the inserted DAM assets inside the active document will become related to each other.
Example 1: Upload a new document
The process will work the same way for ‘Upload from disk' option.
The image below shows an Adobe document saved locally, which has yet to be uploaded to the DAM. When selecting ‘Options’ → ‘Upload document’ → ‘New asset’, the document will be uploaded to the DAM as an InDesign asset with two asset relations: one with the image of abstract waves and another with the image of an office.
When the document has been uploaded, then the asset relation can be seen in the asset preview.
Go into asset preview and click on the ‘Related assets’ tab. The assets linked in the document will now appear under ‘CCC - ADOBE LINKS’ section.
Example 2: Replace the existing document
In the image below is a document that has been uploaded to the DAM. When selecting ‘Options’ → ‘Upload document’ → ‘Replace asset’, the asset relation will be updated within the document.
When the document has been replaced, then the asset relation can be seen in the asset preview.
Go into asset preview and click on the ‘Related assets’ tab. The assets linked in the document will now appear updated under ‘CCC - ADOBE LINKS’ section together with the asset history.
Example 3: See document(s) an asset is used in
The image below shows an asset in the DAM that has been used in a document.
To see which document(s) the asset has been used in, go into the asset preview. Click on the ‘Related assets’ tab, and see the field “CCC - ADOBE LINKS“.
Initially, a message ‘No assets found in this group’ will be displayed. To update the related assets, click the ‘Show assets related to current’ button.
The asset relation will now be updated.