Assets

Overview

Assets is a gallery of resources you can use in your app. In order for you to use any images, logos, or other files, they need to first be uploaded to Assets.

Files in the Assets gallery cannot be edited. If you want to change them, you need to download the image to your computer and upload the changed image.

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Categories

The files in the Assets tool are organized into three categories:

Images

Images are pictures in raster-graphics format, mainly inteneded for display purposes and illustrations.

Only images of the type .png or .jpg / .jpeg can be uploaded to the gallery.

Files

Files are pdfs intended for viewing or downloading from the app.

Only files of the type .pdf can be uploaded to the gallery.

Icons

Icons are images in vector format, intended mainly for use as graphical elements, but can be used for display purposes.

Only logos of the type .svg can be uploaded to the gallery.

Upload media file

To upload a media file:

  • Click on Upload in the top right corner

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The computer file browser opens (by default it only displays files that is possible to upload).

  • Browse to the desired image

  • Select the image

  • Click Open

The image is added to the gallery

Permissions

To manage permissions for Media, click Permissions in the top right corner of the Media view.

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You can make changes to the permissions by clicking on the lock and then editing the permissions to Read, Create, Update or Delete.

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