Assets and media

The asset management system supports generic, content-based files used by Optimizely products such as the Content Management System (CMS) and Commerce Connect. Assets, such as blocks and media files in the CMS, are accessible via the Assets pane of the Edit user interface and the product catalog in Commerce Connect. Media files are images, videos, and documents.

See the Content section of the CMS Developer Guide for information about the Optimizely platform content model and asset management.

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Entry-associated assets, which correspond to the For this page folder in the CMS, are not available for Commerce Connect. You can only work with shared assets for Commerce Connect content.

Asset management in Commerce Connect

The content-based asset management system with the BLOB provider model adds assets to the catalog nodes and entries when you manage catalogs. Files are stored in the same location as the CMS files, providing a unified user experience.

In a Commerce Connect installation, you can access products and product variants from the product catalog in the Catalogs gadget in the Assets panel, with support for drag and drop of content items into CMS pages and blocks. The integration is done using content type classes EPiServer.Commerce.Catalog, EPiServer.Commerce.Catalog.ContentTypes and EPiServer.Commerce.Catalog.Provider.

Default asset for content

EntryContentBase and NodeContent implements IAssetContainer, which contains the property CommerceMediaCollection. Content that implements IAssetContainer can contain several assets. In many cases, only one of the assets is shown at the site. The first item in the asset collection list is used in the UI by default. See also Asset URL resolver.

using EPiServer.Commerce.Catalog.ContentTypes;
    using EPiServer.Commerce.SpecializedProperties;
    using EPiServer.Core;
    using EPiServer.DataAbstraction;
    using EPiServer.DataAccess;
    using EPiServer.Security;
    using EPiServer.Web;
    using System.ComponentModel;
    using System.Globalization;
    
    namespace EPiServer.Commerce.Catalog
    {
        public class AddAssetSample
        {
            private AssetUrlResolver assetUrlResolver;
            private ReferenceConverter referenceConverter;
            private IContentLoader contentLoader;
            private AssetUrlConventions assetUrlConventions;
            private IContentRepository contentRepository;
            private ContentMediaResolver mediaDataResolver;
            private ContentTypeRepository contentTypeRepository;
    
            public void AddAssetToVariation()
            {
                ContentReference rootCatalogLink;
                //Get a suitable MediaData type from extension
                  var mediaType = mediaDataResolver.GetFirstMatching("jpg");
                  var contentType = contentTypeRepository.Load(mediaType);
                //Get a new empty file data
                  var media = contentRepository.GetDefault<IContentMedia>(SiteDefinition.Current.GlobalAssetsRoot, contentType.ID);
                  media.Name = "MyImages";
                  var contentLink = contentRepository.Save(media, SaveAction.Publish, AccessLevel.NoAccess);
                // Add  asset to variation
                  var variation = contentRepository.GetDefault<VariationContent>(rootCatalogLink, CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("en-US"));
                  variation.Name = "Variation name";
                  contentRepository.Save(variation, SaveAction.Save, AccessLevel.NoAccess);
                  var commerceMedia = new CommerceMedia() { AssetLink = contentLink };
                  variation.CommerceMediaCollection.Add(commerceMedia);
            }
        }
    }

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Asset management in Commerce Connect

Default asset for content

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