Asset is an object which describes the digital asset with related metadata and files.

Asset itself does not define where or how the file exists physically, it only defines the metadata and how the file is to be referenced. Each asset has an unique identifier.

Assets can be read using the methods in REST API, but modifying or adding assets is not currently possible.

Asset is always linked to one or more folders. User access permissions for the asset are inherited from these linked relations.

Each asset has the following properties:

• Name
• Status
• Description
• Publish time
  

Optional properties for assets include:

• Links to property field values
• Links to keywords
  

Files

Asset can contain one master file and starting from EMMi version 6.0 multiple attachment files can be linked to asset using different attachment types.

Each file can have multiple file versions of which only one is considered to be an active version. Only active versions are accessible using REST API. Each file version has an unique identifier. File version includes information about the type, name, etc. of the file. File version includes links to available conversions.