Using Data management

Digital Asset Management (DAM) is a process, which can be used to upload, organize, store, and retrieve digital media according to the organizational need.

The digital media is called as assets in the Persona-based UI. DAM provides access to the assets anytime and anywhere. This ensures a faster turnaround time, speed, consistency, and control to the assets.

Digital assets can be uploaded from either an FTP location or from your computer. You can opt for bulk upload and upload multiple digital assets. A digital asset can be linked or unlinked with multiple items and eliminates duplication.

A DAM user has Digital Assets Manager role. A user with Merchandise Manager role can link and unlinked the digital assets to the items and perform various transformations on the digital assets.

All assets tab lists all the digital assets that are uploaded to the Digital Assets Manager. While Uncategorized assets tab lists all the digital assets present under unassigned category.

You can select a digital asset, and perform following tasks in the Digital Assets Management page.

Open	Click to open the digital asset details.
Refresh	Depending upon the task, click to see recently added digital assets if you are uploading digital assets or generating renditions or revert changes that are done in the Digital Asset Catalog / <digital asset name> page.
Download	Click to download the digital asset to your computer in a compressed file format. The file name has a YYYYMMDDHHMMSS format. Note: When you download a digital asset with renditions, the renditions also get downloaded.
Rendition	Click to generate rendition of the digital asset.
Metadata	Click to open the Metadata tab for the selected digital asset. Enter the required details in the Metadata and Value fields, and click Add. Note: You can delete existing metadata using Open.
Categorize	Click to open the Category tab for the selected digital asset. Left pane displays categories for the DAM hierarchy in a tree format. You can categorize multiple digital assets from the Digital Asset Management (DAM) page. Click to map the selected categories to the digital asset. Note: Mapping multiple digital assets, overwrites any existing category mapping. You can map only a single category to a digital asset.
Relationships	See Relationships.
Delete	Click to delete the asset. In the Delete confirmation pop-up window, click Yes. Note: Deleting an asset also deletes all the asset renditions.

Before you can perform the following tasks, you need to enable the DAM feature from the Settings page of the Persona-based UI. For more information, see Digital asset management settings.