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Beyond the Basics: Using and Editing Assets

 

What is an asset?

Assets are containers holding text, images, links, etc. that you build once and can use multiple times. Assets can be built as web content, plain text or as code. If you have content that could be included in more than one page, you might consider creating an asset.


Recognizing assets on a page

asset example

As you are editing pages, you may come across a box with a diagonal line background that contains "cannot be shown in WYSIWYG" within the box. This is how an asset appears in the OU Editor. To view the content in the asset, preview the page or view it on production.

Creating an asset

Step 1:

Create a new page and build out the content you want to make into an asset.  Once you've completed the formatting and styling for your asset, select and copy the content.  Alternately, you can copy the source code source code icon.

copy paste example

 

Step 2:

Locate Content in the global navigation bar and use the dropdown to select Assets.

content dropdown

Step 3:

After the assets list is displayed, click the New button.

new item button

Step 4:

Select which content you will be adding (web content, plain text, source code). 

asset options

Step 5:

Fill out the asset information accordingly.

asset information

Step 6:

Click Create. The new asset will now be seen in preview.

asset preview window

Step 7:

Publish the asset.

publish button

Step 8:

Link up the asset where desired. You can do so by selecting  asset icon  in the WYSIWYG toolbar and searching for the asset name.

 

Editing existing assets

Step 1:

Open a page containing the asset in the OU Editor and take note of the asset name.

asset name

Step 2:

Locate Content in the global navigation bar and use the dropdown to select Assets.

content dropdown

Step 3:

Type the name of the asset in the filter at the top of the page and select the asset you would like to edit.

asset filter

Step 4:

Check out the asset by clicking the light bulb and then click Edit. 

 

Step 5:

Save changes and then publish. All pages that contain the asset will automatically be updated.

publish button

Last Updated: 10/19/23