What are Assets and how are they handled in Agility?

Agility provides access to a robust asset manager; a central hub where you can store and organize all of your available digital assets. 

Assets are deployed from Agility and served over a lightning-fast CDN. The server closest to a user will always be used to serve assets, thereby minimizing latency and improving your site speed and performance.  

Accessing your Assets

You Assets Dashboard can be found by opening your Agility Instance and clicking Assets from the main sidebar menu. 

File Types

Upload Size & Large Files

You can upload files up to 1GB in size. 

Files larger than 15MB are delivered using segmented caching over the CDN. This applies to any file, not just images: regardless of file type, a file over 15MB must use one of the following extensions in order to be served by the CDN.

If a file over 15MB uses an extension that is not on this list, it will not be downloadable through the CDN. Files at or under 15MB are not affected by this restriction. 

Organizing Assets

Assets can be organized into folders which will automatically update the URL path of the Asset. 

For example, if you have a file stored in the Products folder of your Assets Dashboard, the file path would be /products/{fileName} 

Folder Security

Folder Security Roles 

There are 3 Levels of Folder Security Access: 

• Contributor – Users with this access level can view folders in a Read Only state. 
• Editor – Users can make uploads and changes to media files.
• Delete – Same as an Editor but with Delete permissions.

Managing Folder Security 

To make changes to your Folder Level Security 

1. Select the Folder you’d like to manage permissions for from the Assets Dashboard 

2. Click the Menu Indicator next to the folder name

3. Click Edit Folder

4. In the pop-up window click the Security Tab

5. Click + Add Security 

6. Select the Users you’d like to manage permissions for and click Next

7. Select the Roles you’d like to assign them and click Save

Deleting and Restoring Assets

See Deleting and Restoring Content

Further Reading 

• Editing Images
• Transforming with Query Strings

Introduction to Assets

Agility provides a robust Digital Assets Manager, a central place where you can store all of the digital files that you want to make available online.

All of the files within the assets manager are automatically deployed to and served over a lightning-fast CDN. 

The server closest to your user will serve all assets, thus minimizing latency and benefitting your website or application for speed and performance.

Links to assets may look like: https://cdn.aglty.io/{GUID}/folder-name/cat.jpeg

To access your assets, click on Assets:

Valid File Types

Within the Digital Assets Manager, you can upload any file type. Common asset types are:

• .jpg
• .png
• .svg
• .webp
• .gif
• .zip
• .mp3
• .pdf
• .mp4

Folders

Within the Assets area, you can organize your assets into folders. 

When you place an asset within a folder, it will determine the URL path of the asset. For example, if you have a folder in the root of the Assets area called products, then any assets within that folder will be accessible via /products/{fileName}.

Learn more about Organizing your Assets.

Folder Level Security

Agility provides security for Assets at a Folder level. This allows Admins to grant users the ability to work with specific folders in the Assets section. These users will only be able to see folders that they have been granted access to. As well, users who only have global Reader access will not be able to access files in the root Assets folder.

Folder Level Security Roles

There are 3 Levels of Folder Security Access:

1. Contributor
2. Editor
3. Delete

How to Add Folder Level Security

Navigate to your Assets, select the folder you wish to apply security on, then select Edit.

Click on the Security tab, then click the '+' icon.

Next, select the user(s) you wish to enable Folder Security for.

Click on Select Roles, then select the security role access level you wish to give them.