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Asset Tags

Assets are the core of CS-Direct. Assets are objects that can be created, edited, inspected, deleted, duplicated, placed into workflow, searched for, checked out and in with revision tracking, previewed, and published. You use the ASSET tags to extract from the CS-Direct database the information about your assets that you want to display on your online site.

When you use an ASSET.LOAD tag to retrieve an asset from the database, CS-Direct loads an instance of the asset into memory as an object. You then have access to that instance of the asset with the other ASSET tags until either the session is flushed (the root element exits) or the name that is used for the asset object is overwritten.

Assets can have parent-child relationships that are set up either through named associations or through unnamed relationships. Named associations are defined, asset-type-specific relationships represented as fields in the asset forms. Unnamed relationships are established, for example, when you select assets from the generic Select list boxes on the Page form.

CS-Direct stores information about assets in the following database tables:

• Primary database table that holds assets of its type. For example, each page asset has a row in the Page table and each article asset has a row in the Article table. These tables store information such as the asset's name, its object ID, who created it, which template it uses, and so on. You use the ASSET tags to extract information from these tables.

• AssetRelationTree table, if the asset has named associations or unnamed relationships with other assets. You use the ASSET.CHILDREN tag to extract information from this table.

• AssetPublication table, which specifies which management sites (publications) give you access to the asset through CS-Direct's asset entry and edit forms. If the asset is shared between more than one site, there is a row entry for each pubid. A pubid is a unique value that identifies a site.

• SitePlanTree table, if the asset is a page asset. For information about this table, see Role List Tags.

To create types of assets, you use the AssetMaker forms in the CS Administrator software. For more information about asset type development, see the CS Developer's Guide.

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