Collections
Please read through the following documentation to understand how collections work in iconik.
Overview
Collections are a good way to organize your assets. It allows you to group assets and collection into a tree structure as well as use ACL's to define who is allowed to view or use the collection. Unlike a folder or directory on your computer an asset in iconik can live in multiple collections at the same time.
Collections can also have an ordering for their content. This ordering is "global" for the collection, and you can't have more than one order on a collection. If you wish to have multiple orders, consider having multiple collections with the same content with different ordering.
Some use cases
- Grouping together similar assets.
- Collecting Assets for a particular use-case.
- Using ACLs to share a group of assets among a User-Group.
- With iconik Storage Gateway you can map your directories on your computer or storage device to a collection in iconik.
- Automatically create collections from directories on cloud storage
- Ordering groups of assets.
By using the ability to define who is allowed to see and use collections you can also share them with other users.
Panels
There are multiple panels available for the collection page:
- Access Control - For choosing who can do what to this collection.
- Metadata - For adding and editing metadata.
- Sharing - For sharing the collection.
Sub-sections
Please use the menu on the left to view all the subsections of this help to get information on performing different tasks.