Latest Features

The new version of the asset details page delivers functional improvements, a more modern aesthetic and leverages the full size of your screen.

Read more about the benefits of the new asset details page.

With Portals you can create mini Asset Bank sites and give access to these via a Public URL, or with an additional password step. This is great for sharing folders of content with external recipients who you do not want to give a login to.

Read more about how Portals work.

If admin users decide to make passwords for Published Lightboxes mandatory (via Admin > Lightbox Publishing Settings), then these passwords will now have to be strong, as shown below.

The admin > download options area has been overhauled to make it easier to create new download options for your users.

We have simplified the UX, added better defaults, improved the language (to make it less technical) and moved the less used options under an advanced section.

We have improved the download experience making it quicker and more modern.

Read more about the benefits of Quick Download.

  Admin users can now easily create folders when browsing the folder structure in the front end interface.

You can now convert your images into WebP format which is 26% smaller in size compared to PNGs and 25 - 34% smaller than comparable JPEG images. 

Read more about how WebP format works.

You can now easily add, edit, or entirely remove the welcome text from your Asset Bank homepage. Simply click on the edit icon and you will be redirected to the relevant content page. 

To remove your welcome text section entirely, just delete the text from the content box and click Save. If you do not have any welcome text and you wish to add some then click the '+' icon in the top right corner of your homepage:

November version release includes various interface updates giving Asset Bank a fresher, modern look, improved usability and overall better user experience.

• Revamped Download Options page with a cleaner design and options to edit your usage types

• Email Templates moved to their own tab for easy access - Admin > Content > Email Templates:

• Modernised 'Manage Lightboxes' page, now with an option to easily switch between Lightboxes. The delete button was renamed to 'Delete assets' and moved lower down the dropdown to prevent confusion and accidentally deleting assets in a non-recoverable way.

• Visual rotate editor allows you to easily update your asset orientation:
  
  

We have retired legacy duplicate detection options (e.g. file size, filename) and have replaced these with an option that finds matches based on each file's unique digital fingerprint. This will also match even if the file has a different filename.

This option will replace the old, less accurate, matching algorithms on upload and in duplicate reports in the admin area.

Perceptual matching

Note, if you currently use perceptual matching on upload, this will be unaffected. (This is the option that finds duplicate images, even if they have different dimensions, filenames and file extensions - but have the same image content.)

If you have any questions then please contact us.

You can now create folders during the upload process (or when editing an asset). Just look out for the plus icon when hovering over a folder name. This is only available for users who already have folder, access level or category creation permissions. E.g. admins, org unit admins or groups who have been delegated category management.

This is an additional security feature that has been requested by many of our clients. It's now live and you can contact us if you'd like to have it activated for your account.

This will allow clients who require additional security to enforce MFA for all non SSO (Single-Sign On) accounts. I.e. for all accounts that login with email/username and password.

Read more about how Asset Bank MFA works.

This is an improvement to an existing Asset Bank functionality that automatically removes users who haven't logged in for a certain period of time. 



Instead of deleting users in a non-recoverable way, it is now possible to automatically suspend users.

Suspended users aren't allowed to log in, do not count towards your user allowance, and can be easily re-activated in Admin > Users.

Read more about how this feature works and contact our Support team if you would like this functionality enabled.

We have changed the chequered background colour scheme to make images with transparency (especially white images) easier to see.

Photo by Aarón Blanco Tejedor on Unsplash

We are delighted to release an update to the keyword picker feature, improving the user experience and making it easier to add and remove tags.

Benefits include:

• Keywords now appear as 'tags' instead of just text strings. Making them easier to read and simpler to remove keywords you don't want.
• The keyword browse panel is now inline, instead of a separate pop up.
• The panel is more modern and simpler to read.
• You can add keywords by just clicking on the word you see in the list.

We have successfully completed code migration to the newer Google Identity Services library. The older 'Google Sign-In JavaScript platform library' is set to be deprecated after 31st March 2023.

                                                                             

Interested in making your Asset Bank log-in process easier with Single Sign-On? Read more about 'Options for Single Sign-On'.

The duplicate report now shows the exact number of assets identified as duplicates. We recommend running duplicate report regularly to make sure duplicates are kept to a minimum. 

                                     

To learn more about asset duplicates please see 'How can I identify duplicate assets in my Asset Bank?'.

Asset Bank supports Google's next-generation measurement solution - Google Analytics 4. The current version (Universal Analytics) will no longer be supported as of June 2023.

                     


If you want to configure Google Analytics, then please see our "Adding Google Analytics to Asset Bank" support article.

Prior to this improvement, Asset Bank URL may have been lost and users were redirected to the home page after log-in. The URL is now retained and users always land on the desired page once signed in via SSO.

                                                                   
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Interested in making your Asset Bank log-in process easier with Single Sign-On? Read more about 'Options for Single Sign-On'.

Do you need to share a Lightbox with other Asset Bank users? It's now quicker and easier to select all matching users from your search so you can share a Lightbox with the entire Group(s) in seconds. 

We've taken onboard feedback and have overhauled upload so that it is faster, more visual and flexible.

If you have a preview on hover enabled (see Admin > System > Browse Settings) you will now also see previews of video assets in your Lightbox view.

You can now connect Asset Bank to all your favourite apps with our new CI HUB integration. This allows your users to access approved assets directly within those applications, improving workflow.

Supported connections include:

• Adobe CC (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, After Effects, InCopy)
• Google Workspace (Slides, Docs, Sheets)
• Microsoft 365 (PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Outlook, SharePoint)
• WordPress
• SharePoint
• Figma
• Sketch

Want to try it out via a free 30 day trial? Please Contact Support to get this set up.

More details

We've modernised the look of assets on the browse, search and lightbox pages. Not only have we improved them visually, but also made how you interact with assets a lot easier.

Here are a handful of key differences:

• Improved visual relations - Assets and their metadata now have a stronger visual relation in a more modern panel layout.
• Easier to interact with - Actions such as selecting or adding to your lightbox have been streamlined by increasing the button sizes.
• Cleaner iconography - We've used simpler iconography that is much easier to visually digest.
• Larger selection target - You can now click anywhere on the top of an asset preview to select that asset.
• Clearer selected state - Both the thumbnail's background and the border of the panel now have a green selected state.
• Increased thumbnail size - Thumbnails sizes have been increased ever so slightly and now align with the edge of the panels.
• Smart preview - We've refined the area that triggers the 'preview on hover' feature (if enabled). Thus preventing unintended preview activation when interacting with other actions.

When reviewing you users on the Manage Users page, you can now easily spot Admin users in the list.

When moving or deleting folders in the admin area, it's now much easier to pick the new folder location, or the place where assets should be moved to in the case of a folder deletion.

This utilises the new folder picker.

We now offer the ability to share more complex/filtered search results with other users of the system. Just build your search and then use the new "Share this search" link.

This will give you a shareable URL that is valid for 30 days, making it easy to share that unique view.

Note, if you are an admin, you can also use the "Save this search" link to promote this set of search results on the homepage for other users to see, via the "Featured" option. 

This is a small but effective improvement - you no longer need to scroll up and down to see headers & titles on various pages. Another step in making Asset Bank more user friendly.

You can clearly see which folder permissions you are updating -  making this process faster and less prone to errors.




Duplicate report headers are 'sticking' when scrolling down. 

Photo by Gabrielle Henderson

CR3 is a lossless Canon raw format. Previously you could upload CR3 files to Asset Bank, but would only see an icon. We have now implemented support for CR3 files to allow you to see a preview, helping users identify the file prior to download.

Generating previews for existing files

If you have existing CR3 files with no previews, then run a search to list these (e.g. search for "*.cr3"), then head over to:

Admin > System > "Thumbnails Regeneration" tab, tick 'Use last search results' and finally click 'Launch Regeneration' to have previews created for these.