Digital assets can be either images or non-images (based on MIME type), but both include metadata, references, and digital content. For more information, refer to the MIME Types section of the System Setup documentation.
- Images are assets, usually with a MIME type of image/*, and can be converted during export from STEP. Modifications can include changes to size, color, and/or converting the file to a format available in the wizard. Image Conversion Configurations allow these modifications to be saved and applied consistently for additional exports. For more information about converting images, refer to Image Conversion Configuration in the Digital Assets documentation.
- Non-images are assets with any other MIME type and cannot be modified during an export. Non-images are exported from STEP in the same format and manner that they were loaded into STEP.
Inbound Assets
These are the ways to import assets into STEP:
- Asset Importer allows you to import assets via Web UI and/or hotfolders configured with an inbound integration endpoint.
- Manual Asset Importer allows you to import assets via STEP Workbench but cannot be scheduled.
Outbound Assets
These are the ways to export assets from STEP:
- Export Images and Documents Wizard allows you to manually export asset digital content.
- Export Manager or an OIEP allows you to manually export asset metadata, references, and digital content, in addition to data, using STEPXML, as defined in the Assets and Content with STEPXML topic.
- Asset Push allows you to automatically export modified / approved assets.
- REST API allows you to upload files to REST. For more information, refer to the Technical Documentation accessible at [system]/sdk or from the Resources section of the system's Start Page.
To exchange data independent of assets, refer to the Data Exchange documentation.
Asset Management
These are the options for managing assets:
- Asset Analyzer is an add-on component that can automatically tag image assets with keywords through visual analysis. (This functionality falls under the Image Analytics Package commercial license, which has been discontinued.)
- Asset Download is an add-on component that allows users to provide a URL to an asset on a product and have STEP automatically download the asset.
- Asset Groups is a Web UI component on a Node Editor that allows asset curators to categorize assets and organize them to best fit the needs for their business.
- External Digital Asset Management (DAM) is a component model that allows assets to be stored outside of STEP.
- External File Structure (EFS) allows assets to be stored outside of STEP in a file structure.
- Deduplicating Images is an add-on component that identifies and manages duplicate images to ensure that only one version of a particular image is maintained in the system.