Asset Finder
The Asset Finder button
The Asset Finder allows you to navigate the assets within your system, locating and redirecting to assets you want to edit. To open the Asset Finder, click on the asset finder button, located to the right of the Current User button in the tool bar, as shown in the figure to the right.
Bookmarks to the headings on this page:
The Asset Finder is shown in the figure below.
The Asset Finder
The name displayed for each asset listed in the Asset Finder is determined by the system's Asset Display Name setting. For more information, refer to the System Configuration chapter in the System Configuration manual.
The Status of each asset is indicated by the Status colour displayed to the left of the asset name and icon. For example, in the figure above, the Home page has a Status of Safe Edit (pink), while the About Us page has a Status of Live (light green). For more information on the Asset Statuses available and their associated colours, view the Squiz Matrix Concepts chapter in the Concepts manual.
Refresh Assets
The Refresh Assets button
A Refresh Assets button is available on the Asset Finder, to refresh your assets, as shown in the figure to the right. This will reload the assets on the Asset Finder, displaying any changes since the Asset Finder was first loaded, such as newly created assets.
This tool is useful if you are managing a Site with many content editors and frequent changes, or if you have had the Asset Finder open for an extended period of time.
Asset Lineage
As you navigate through the assets in your system, the Asset Finder creates a dynamic asset lineage with lineage links. This allows for speedy navigation when backtracking to previously viewed assets.
In the figure below, the Department 1 Products page is currently selected in the Asset Lineage.
The Asset Lineage
You can navigate quickly to any asset within the lineage of this page by clicking on one of the links in the asset lineage. For example, clicking on the Products link will navigate back to the Products page in the Asset Finder.
Assets in the lineage of the selected asset are also highlighted in the Asset Finder, as shown in the figure below.
Highlighted assets in the Asset Finder
Child Count
A child count marker
Some assets in the Asset Finder have numbers next to their name. This indicates that the asset is a parent asset and informs the user of the number of children they have.
In the figure to the right, the Home page is not a parent asset, as it has no children. The Squiz page, however, is a parent asset and has four children.
Selecting a parent asset in the Asset Finder will display its children in a new column, allowing you to select any of these assets.
Child assets in the Asset Finder
Pagination
Pagination tools
By default, the Asset Finder will only display up to 100 children for each asset.
Parent assets with large numbers of children will provide users with pagination tools to display any remaining children, as shown in the figure to the right.
These pagination tools provide users with cleaner, more efficient navigation of the assets in the Asset Finder.
Tip: You can change the number of children to display before pagination occurs in the Easy Edit Suite's configuration file. You can also specify to disable pagination and display all children, irrespective of the amount. For more information, refer to the Installation Guide chapter in this manual.
Selecting an Asset
A selected asset
To select an asset to preview and edit, navigate to the asset in the Asset Finder. Once clicked, the asset will become highlighted, as shown in the figure to the right.
The name of the asset and its asset ID will be listed in the Current Selection section at the bottom of the Asset Finder, as shown in the figure below.
The Current Selection section
Click the Select button. You will be redirected to the selected asset, viewed in Edit Mode, allowing you to make changes to the selected asset. For more information, refer to the The Easy Edit Suite and Edit Mode chapters in this manual.
Tip: Double click an asset in the Asset Finder to quickly redirect to Edit Mode for that asset.
Closing the Asset Finder
To close the Asset Finder, click the Close (x) button in the top right corner of the Asset Finder, as shown in the figure below.
The Close (x) button in the Asset Finder
Closing the Asset Finder will return you to the screen you were previously viewing.
Customisable Root Nodes
Redirecting to a Page
An array of custom root nodes can be listed in the Asset Finder to provide easy access to commonly used areas of your system. For example, if you have a Folder that contains all of your images, you can add this folder directly under the current Site asset in the Asset Finder, as shown in the figure to the right. This allows users to navigate directly to that location, in order to easily select any of the images in this folder.
These root nodes are configured in the Easy Edit Suite's configuration file as follows:
// Array of additional asset finder locations.
// This can be used to add asset id's of frequently used site parents e.g. News, Events, Images.
assetFinderLocations: [],
For the assetFinderLocations option, enter the IDs of the assets to use as root nodes in the Asset Finder. For example, if the asset ID of the images Folder is 763, the assetFinderLocations option would be configured as follows:
assetFinderLocations: [763]