Assets are managed on a blog-by-blog basis. Assets are not shared between blogs. Users therefore that have permission to manage assets can view, edit and delete all assets within a blog regardless of who created those assets.

The Manage Assets Screen

The Manage Pages screen is the primary dashboard used to access and manage your assets. Although more information about each individual page can be obtained or edited through the asset editing screen accessible through the linked title, there are a number of actions you can take right from the asset listing screen.

To reach the manage assets screen for an individual blog, click on Manage > Assets from Movable type's main menu.

Note: While entries and pages have a way to view all entries and pages within the system, one cannot do the same with assets. However, Movable Type does maintain system-level assets, such as userpics.

The listing table on the Manage Pages screen contains the following items:

• Thumbnail A smaller representation of the full size asset.

• Asset Title: The title of the asset.

• Size: The file size of the asset (if applicable).

• Creator: The user who created the asset.

• Created Date: The date the page was last edited by a user.

• View: Clicking on the icon in the view column will open the published entry in a new window.

Asset Previews

Within the listing of assets is a thumbnail. Each thumbnail has a small magnifying glass icon, which when clicked will show a larger preview of the corresponding asset.

Filtering your list of pages

You can filter your list of pages on the Manage Assets screen using the Quickfilters tool on the right-hand side of the screen, or through the filter bar at the top of the listing screen.

Quickfilters

The Quickfilters tool enables you to filter the list of assets by type. Plugins that define additional assets types will automatically have quick filters defined for them.

Additionally, you can subscribe to an Atom feed of new pages created in the system by clicking on the "Assets Feed" link in the Quickfilters section.

The filter bar

The page listing table also allows you to create a custom filter of your pages. To change your current filter and apply a new one, click on the change link in the filter bar.

This will expose options in the page filter bar.

With the page filter bar you can filter on:

• Type: the type of asset (e.g. audio, video, image, etc)
• Tag (exact match): filter pages that are tagged with a particular word, based on an exact match
• Tag (fuzzy match): filter pages that are tagged with a particular word, based on a fuzzy match. With a "fuzzy match" you can enter a partial string of a tag, and it will match any tags that contain that partial string.

Customizing your asset listing display

The Display Options tool on the right hand side of the screen enables you to customize your asset listing screen. To open the Display Options tool, click on the link "Display Options." The options available for customization are:

• The number of rows to display
• Whether your action bar is at the top of the bottom
• Whether your dates are formatted as "full" or displayed in relative terms compared to the current time.

Editing assets

• To edit an asset, click on its asset title. This will take you to the Edit Asset screen.

Deleting assets

• To delete an asset, click on the checkbox to the left of the page title to select the page, then click the "Delete" button in the action bar. The system will ask you to confirm your action.
• After you have confirmed your action, the system will delete the asset from the database, and remove the file associated with that asset (and all of its various thumbnails) from the file system.

Adding or removing tags from assets

The Manage Assets screen allows you to add or remove tags from one or more pages at once. Learn how.

Asset Auditing

From the asset details screen you can view a list of all the pages and entries an asset is used. This makes is much easier for you to track down an asset if it needs to removed from a website, or updated site-wide. This view also shows all the permutations of the asset like the various thumbnails that have been generated for it.

Asset Editing

From the asset editing screen you can easily rename the asset, edit the description of the asset, or tag the asset to make to easier to find and re-use later.