Publishing folders and assets
To display folders and assets in Brand Connect, they first need to
be published by an admin or contributor with publish permission. For
more information about permissions, see Managing users and
groups.
This documentation page covers:
Manually publish folders and assets to Brand Connect
To manually publish folders and assets, perform the following steps:
- Sign in to Acquia DAM Classic, and then navigate to the folder or
asset you want to publish.
- Click the Publish icon. You can also click the
Pencil icon and select Publish /
Unpublish. Light gray Publish icons indicate that the folder or
asset is not published, while a dark gray Publish icon indicates
that the folder or asset is published.
- Select the Brand Connect portal that you would like to publish
to, and whether you would like to also publish subfolders.
- Click Save.
Unpublish folders and assets
If you no longer need an asset, you can remove it from display.
- Sign in to Acquia DAM Classic, and then navigate to the folders or
assets that you want to unpublish.
- Click the Publish icon. You can also
click the Pencil icon, and then click
Publish / Unpublish. Light gray Publish icons indicate that
the folder or asset is not published, while a dark gray Publish
icon indicates that the folder or asset is published.
- Select the X next to the Brand Connect portal that you
would like to unpublish to and whether you would like to also
unpublish subfolders.
- Click Save.
Publishing folders and assets upon activation
Admins may set their folders and assets to publish to
Brand Connect upon activation.
This feature is available only to Brand Connect subscribers who
are also Acquia DAM Classic Professional subscribers.
- Sign in to Acquia DAM Classic, then click Brands in the top
navigation.
- Click the brand you want to configure.
- In the top navigation, select Settings.
- Check the box to publish folders and assets upon activation.
Now when you activate an asset or folder, it is published. In order for
folders and assets to be published upon upload, ensure that the default
status of folders and assets is Active under the System Preferences.
Publishing folders and assets by date
This feature is available only to Brand Connect subscribers, and
not to users of the version of Brand Connect included with
Acquia DAM Classic Starter or Professional subscriptions.
This feature gives admins and contributors with publish permissions the
ability to schedule a day and time to publish an asset or folder to
Brand Connect. As an example, you’re launching a new product. The
campaign materials and product photos are uploaded, but they cannot be
launched to the broader audience until a specific date.
- Sign in to Acquia DAM Classic and navigate to the folder(s) or
asset(s) you’d like to schedule.
- Click the Publish icon. You can also click the
Pencil icon and select Publish /
Unpublish.
- Select the Brand Connect portal that you’d like to publish to
and whether you’d like to also publish subfolders.
- The folders/assets will default to publishing immediately. Click
Change.
- Enter the day and time that you’d like to have the folder(s) or
asset(s) published. The time zone used is based on your computer’s
time zone settings.
- Click Schedule.
- Click Edit to update the publish day and time, or click
Cancel to delete.
Publish rules
Published folders and assets follow specific rules.
- Newly uploaded, created or moved assets and folders inherit publish
status from its parent folder. Exceptions can occur in
Brand Connect Basic accounts when the asset publish limit has
been reached.
- You can manually publish an asset or nested folder residing in an
unpublished folder. This action will display only the selected asset
(or nested folder) and its parent folder(s) in Brand Connect.
- Individual assets in a published folder cannot be manually
unpublished.
- Inactive assets and folders won’t be published in
Brand Connect. If you deactivate a published folder or asset,
it will be unpublished.