Latest Features

We've made it easy for your users to find the assets they need, as soon as they login.

The new Asset Bank homepage is the culmination of months of UX research and development, and it shows. Featuring several major design enhancements and a stunning full-width layout, the new homepage provides users with instant access to the most relevant assets. Searching is now more prominent and browsing through folders and promoted assets has been re-designed to take advantage of the full-width of the page.

To switch over to the new full width design contact our support team today.

Our new full-width layout helps your users find their assets faster than ever.

Browsing, searching and viewing assets are some of the most common tasks for DAM users. Moving to a full-width layout has allowed us to get up to 30% more images on the page, giving users more choice when browsing and searching. We have also been able to increase the size of the preview image so that more detail can be seen prior to download. The new layout features support for mobile devices.

To switch over to the new full width design contact our support team today.  

Finding your way around Asset Bank is now easier than ever.

As part of our ongoing work to improve the user experience of Asset Bank, we have made several big enhancements to the navigation. The sidebar menu allows users to minimise navigation elements that are not frequently used, creating more space on the page for browse and search results. Each user's navigation preferences will be remembered throughout their session, meaning that they can work with Asset Bank in the most efficient way for them. For convenience, search, lightbox and other common items are now available in the header.

To switch over to the new full width design contact our support team today. 

Quickly preview Microsoft Office documents online without having to download them.

Our new Microsoft Office integration allows users to preview PowerPoint, Word and Excel documents directly within Asset Bank. Taking advantage of Microsoft's Office Online viewer, users can now scroll through multi-page documents and even view a Powerpoint slide show online.

To enable this integration please contact our support team today.

We've made it easier for users to work with sets of assets.

Our UX team are constantly striving to improve the User Experience of Asset Bank and our new Shift+Click Selection feature is a great example of this. Accurately selecting hundreds of assets can now be achieved in just two clicks, giving your users a faster way to achieve their goals.

Allows your users to read PDF files without the need to download them.

We challenged our design team to come up with an all-new experience for viewing PDF files in Asset Bank, and they have delivered! Our gorgeous new PDF Previews provide your users with an unparalleled, full-screen preview of all your PDF assets.

Content Distribution Networks (CDNs) reduce the amount of time that users wait for web content to load by serving their content from data centres close to their physical location. In practice, this means that users will be able to browse and search for images and other files quickly, no matter where in the world they are located. Amazon CloudFront CDN is now available for Asset Bank.

To enable CDNs please contact our support team today.

The SharePoint integration for Asset Bank provides you with the ability to automatically publish any of your Asset Bank assets to any of your SharePoint document or picture libraries. It is also possible to individually select and publish assets directly into SharePoint, giving your users the maximum flexibility to create great SharePoint content. The integration works with SharePoint 2013 and 2016 on-premise editions.

Give your WordPress users instant access to the images they need.

WordPress is one of the most popular and easy-to-use blogging systems out there, and we are delighted to announce that Asset Bank customers can now easily use their assets when writing WordPress posts and content. Our new WordPress integration allows WordPress users to connect directly to their Asset Bank while editing posts. They can then browse, search, select and use Asset Bank images in their WordPress posts.

Give your Drupal users instant access to images from Asset Bank.

Drupal is one of the world's most widely used open-source content management systems. We have developed a new Drupal integration for Asset Bank which allows Drupal users to quickly access and use approved images from Asset Bank without the need to download or upload.

Sitecore is one of the world's leading enterprise Content Management Systems and we are delighted to announce that Asset Bank customers can now easily use their assets when working with Sitecore content.

The new Sitecore integration for Asset Bank allows Sitecore users to browse, search, select and publish Asset Bank images and videos from within Sitecore. Asset Bank assets appear natively in the Sitecore media library, providing Sitecore users with an immediately familiar experience and leaving them to focus on the important job of selecting the right images for their content.

At the forefront of our user experience changes in this release are the updates to our browse and search panels. We have placed the focus of browse and search around the assets themselves, by increasing the size of the thumbnail previews and increasing the width of the page we have improved the density of assets seen at any given time.

On the panels themselves there are new links to "Add to lightbox" and direct download, which are revealed on hover.

We have implemented a new action toolbar which contains actions that can be applied to multiple assets.Users will now see the same consistent actions for both browse and search results pages.

The bulk selection controls have been simplified into a neat module which can now support both selecting assets across a folder and also their sub folders.

The sorting options for browse, search and the lightbox now contain a list of shortcut links to quickly arrange your assets.

The existing advanced sorting options are still available by click the 'More...' link on the options bar (as seen above). The visual design has been improved and provides a handy tooltip to show how the assets are being ordered.

The options available for browse and search results pages are now consistent. The new default assets per page size is now 60. To change the number of results seen, simply click the options button on either the search or browse pages.

The old default thumbnail icons have been replaced with a more flexible vector graphic that will show the file extension for any file for which a preview cannot be generated - this includes empty assets.

Much of the unnecessary space has been removed from the top of the browse and search pages; this allows us to fit more results on the page and make them more readily visible to the user. To keep consistency we have duplicated the changes on the asset detail page.

We have increased the default size of images on individual Asset pages, bringing higher detail and removing unnecessary white space.

We've reworked the asset detail buttons and links based on analysis of user data. We have kept commonly used actions as buttons and placed the additional functionality into links. To reduce visual noise in this area we have shifted lesser used actions into a dropdown menu under "More...".

Since the release of Microsoft's Azure platform, more and more of our Windows hosting customers are seeking to leverage the power of the enterprise cloud.

We are delighted to announce that Asset Bank is now integrated with Microsoft's Azure Active Directory, their next generation identity and access management solution. This integration allows Asset Bank customers to re-use their existing list of users and groups and provides a seamless login experience and fine-grained control over permissions in Asset Bank.

For more information about Single Sign On please read this article.

OneLogin is a leading provider of enterprise class Single Sign-On solutions. Their passion for simple and secure identity and access management has seen them grow rapidly to become one of the industry's leading SSO vendors.

We are delighted to announce that the power of OneLogin has come to Asset Bank. With our OneLogin integration, you can leverage your existing users and groups to provide a seamless Asset Bank login experience and control user permissions. With OneLogin, rolling out Asset Bank to your team couldn't be simpler. Our delivery consultants will work directly with your IT team to help you get setup.

OKTA provides secure, scalable, and highly available authentication and user management. Their flexible identity and SSO platform is trusted by developers at some of the world's leading organisations.

Asset Bank is now fully integrated with OKTA via the Asset Bank app for OKTA. With this integration, it is now possible to re-use your existing OKTA users and groups to provide your users with instant access to Asset Bank and to control their permissions. Once the initial configuration has been done by our delivery consultants, managing your users can be done exclusively via OKTA.

Our User Experience team are constantly engaging with our users to help make Asset Bank easier and more intuitive to use. Sometimes their work involves large-scale redesigns, but sometimes just a few small changes can make a huge difference in helping our users achieve their goals. Below are a couple of small but powerful changes we have made recently:

Improved saved search UX to make it easier to select the correct option.

Improved buttons and labels to help make uploads simpler.

We have added the folder image sizes to the edit Folder/Access Level page to help users understand what size to create their folder images. The sizes are taken from the settings file so will be correct for any customer's Asset Bank.

In the previous release we added a Share button to the asset details page. Allowing a user who has download permission to choose to email the asset directly from Asset Bank to an external recipient. We have now extended this so that it can be used to send multiple assets to external recipients. The 'Share' button is now visible on search results pages, browse pages and from the users' lightbox.

When sharing a single item that you have permission to download, you now have the option to share via Facebook. This will share a web optimised version directly from Asset Bank to Facebook.

We have updated the user interface for the folder/category and access level picker. This makes it quicker to select the relevant tag either via an expandable folder structure or using an auto-complete finder.

We have extended our mobile device support to include gesture control. It is now possible to swipe through a sequence of assets, pages of search results or pages of assets within a particular category.