Add an Asset

Add a New Asset

As well as syncing a source system and adding all of its assets at once, administrators and curators have the option to register a single asset into the catalogue.

Click on Add Asset at the top-right of the catalogue.

Add a new asset individually

Provide a name for this asset.

Choose an asset type from the dropdown.

Choose an asset type

After you have chosen an asset type, provide the URL of the asset. This URL will be the default action for this asset.

If the type you have selected above does not have a default action, you will not have to provide a URL.

Provide a URL

Click on Next at the bottom-right of the page.

If you have added attributes to this asset type, provide your values into the attribute fields here.

Add attributes

Add any tags for this asset using the Add button on the right.

Add any tags

If your selected type has embedding available, click Next to optionally provide Embedding Properties.

Provide the Embed Url of the asset. For example, the Embed Url provided by PowerBI.com for a Power BI report.

Add an embed URL

Click on Save at the bottom-right of the page when you are ready and you can then view your new asset in the catalogue.

Save the new asset

Edit a Manually Added Asset

If you would like to later edit the asset’s URL, you can click on Information under ‘Actions’, and click on Edit at the top-right of the Basics section.

Edit a manual asset

Save your changes to this section and your asset will be updated.

Save changes