CCC5.8 LM Overview

Owned by Kasper Svane
Jun 19, 2023
3 min read

All the DAM assets used in Adobe documents are linked, and their overview can be seen in the ‘Links’ panel. Up-to-date links are displayed as a blue icon attached to the image on the page.

The assets used in Adobe applications remain in the Digizuite DAM and will be available to other people as links when the document is sent to them. It is therefore not necessary for the users to send their documents together with all the images used in them. The recipient needs access to the DAM, however, to gain the ability to update links. 

When opening a document in an Adobe application, the system checks all the links to the DAM. If the asset has been replaced in the DAM or the assets are missing on the user's local hard disk, the system will show a notice with a prompt. The connector will prompt you with the option to direct you to the link manager to relink the missing links.

The link manager handles the management of assets. The link manager can be accessed from the menu under ‘Link manager’.

The following message will be displayed in case no assets or files are added to the InDesign document:

 

Default view (Grid view)

 

1 - Top bar

2 - Back button to previous page

3 - Breadcrumbs

4 - Tools related to the link manger view

5 - Inserted assets/files

6 - Pagination

 

In the link manager, the user can see all the inserted assets in the active document either using the grid or list view.

The link manager contains the following elements:

  • Multi selection button in the top bar when more than one asset/file is selected.

  • A free text search button to search for the title, assetId or extension of an inserted asset(s).

  • A filter button to filter the inserted assets.

  • A refresh button to refresh the page in case of a change. Every time a new asset is inserted in the active document while the link manager is open, the refresh button has to be clicked to update the table.

  • A sort button to sort the inserted assets/files based on ‘Latest’, ‘Oldest’, ‘A-Z’ or ‘Z-A’.

  • A dropdown to handle the multi-selection of assets.

Asset card (Grid view)

 

  1. Asset/file thumbnail

  2. Quick asset/file info

  3. Overview of instances the same asset/file appear in the active document (based on assetId)

  4. More options, dependent on status of asset/file: ‘Upload’, ‘Relink’, ‘Unembed’, ‘Change quality’, ‘Link to asset’, ‘Go to asset’, ‘Reveal in explorer/finder’

  5. Title of the asset/file

  6. Original filetype and size

  7. The current quality

  8. The status of the asset/file

In InDesign, the ‘More’ menu also has the option to remove the asset/file from the active document.

List view

 

  1. Title column (Selection button, thumbnail and title of the asset/file)

  2. Original filetype of asset/file

  3. The current quality of asset/file

  4. The status of the asset/file

  5. Actions (Quick asset/file info, overview of instances the same asset/file, more options)

All columns in the table can be sorted and reordered to fit the users preferences.