WoodWing Assets is a digital asset management (DAM) system. It gives you one central place to store, find, share and reuse your files: images, videos, documents, layouts and more. This article explains what you are working with during your trial and how the pieces fit together.
Two parts: Assets Server and Assets
- Assets Server is the engine in the background. It stores your files and their metadata, indexes everything so it can be searched, and decides who may see and do what.
- Assets is the web application you open in your browser to work with those files. There is nothing to install. You open a link, log in and start working.
Think of Assets Server as the warehouse and Assets as the front desk where you ask for what you need.
What you can do in Assets
During your trial you can try the everyday tasks that make a DAM useful:
- Search for files with a search term, filters or by browsing folders
- Preview and compare files without downloading them
- Upload files, or ask people outside your team to upload files for you
- Describe files with metadata such as tags, status and copyright information
- Group related files in collections
- Share files with people outside your organization using a link
- Download files and folders
- Check files out to edit them in their own application, then check them back in
- Place files straight onto an Adobe InDesign layout
Each of these has its own article in this guide.
What you will see depends on your role
Your account has a role that determines which features and files are available to you. If a feature described in this guide is missing on your screen, it is most likely a permission setting, not a fault. Ask the person who set up your trial.
How Assets connects to other tools
- Adobe InDesign. Assets for InDesign adds an Assets menu to InDesign. Designers drag files from Assets onto a layout and open layouts from Assets directly in InDesign.
- Your usual desktop applications. With check-out and check-in, you open a file in the application you normally use and save your changes back to Assets.
- WoodWing Studio. If your organization also uses WoodWing Studio, files from Assets can be added to Studio. That is outside the scope of this guide.
What is included in this trial
This trial runs on a self-hosted Assets Server operated by Serioustec. A few features of WoodWing’s cloud offering, such as the Brand portal and the built-in Photo Editor, are not available in this trial, so this guide does not cover them.
