Configure Assets Inside the PIM
- Mahtab Haj Ali (Deactivated)
- Esther Chau
You can configure assets for each product inside the PIM via the Assets tab on the Products screen.
Assets Tab
The Assets tab serves as a mini Digital Asset Manager (DAM) for your products. You can use it to store a variety of digital assets to ensure that your products are fully enriched when publishing out to marketplaces.
What types of Assets can I add to a Product?
The PIM can support the following asset file extension types:
type | mime_type | extension |
image | image/jpeg | jpg |
image | image/jpeg | jpeg |
image | image/gif | gif |
image | image/png | png |
document | application/pdf | |
document | application/msword | doc |
document | application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document | docx |
document | application/vnd.ms-excel | xls |
document | application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet | xlsx |
document | application/illustrator | ai |
document | application/eps | eps |
document | application/postscript | eps |
document | application/x-eps | eps |
document | image/eps | eps |
document | image/x-eps | eps |
dxf | application/x-autocad | dxf |
dwg | image/x-dwg | dwg |
cdr | application/x-coreldraw | cdr |
iso | application/octet-stream | ISO |
crv | application/octet-stream | crv |
bbcd | application/octet-stream | bbcd |
dxf | application/octet-stream | dxf |
dwg | image/vnd.dwg | dwg |
image | image/webp | webp |
video | video/3gpp | 3gp |
video | video/mp4 | mp4 |
video | video/ogg | ogg |
video | video/quicktime | mov |
video | video/webm | webm |
video | video/x-m4v | m4v |
video | video/ms-asf | asf |
video | video/x-ms-wmv | wmv |
video | video/x-msvideo | avi |
video | video/MP2T | ts |
video | application/x-mpegURL | m3u8 |
video | video/x-flv | flv |
video | video/mpeg | mpeg |
3d-model | model/gltf-binary | glb |
3d-model | model/vnd.usdz+zip | usdz |
PIM assets can be uploaded as public or private.
Public: This is the default method for asset upload. Public assets will get published to marketplaces/channels and are able to be referenced via URL using attributes. Most assets will be public.
Private: By selecting private when uploading an asset, you only allow users who are logged in to the PIM to access the file. The file cannot be referenced via URL and will not get published to marketplaces or channels. This is intended for internal or sensitive information that needs to be associated with products.
How do I add Assets to Products inside the PIM?
There are two supported methods for adding assets to products in the PIM:
Direct upload
Upload from URL
1. Direct Upload
To upload images to products directly from your computer follow these steps:
From the Assets tab, click “Upload Asset”
Drag files into the window or click to select files from your computer. You can upload multiple files at the same time using either method
Wait for check marks to appear over all of the images, indicating they are ready for processing
Click Upload
By default, Assets will get uploaded as Public (accessible). Therefore, if the file is intended to be used only internally by logged-in PIM users, select “Add it as private”
2. Via URL
To upload assets from a publicly accessible URL, follow these directions.
Only individual image uploads are supported via URL.
From the Assets tab, click “Add Asset by URL”
Paste the URL into the field
3. Click “Save”
What can I do with Assets I have uploaded?
As a Mini DAM, you can perform a variety of actions on Assets that you have uploaded in the PIM.
1. Set A Thumbnail
The PIM allows you to designate an image as the thumbnail to use that image as primary when publishing to External System. Follow the steps below:
From the Assets tab, click the gear icon under the “Action” next to any uploaded image
Select “set as thumbnail”
2. Enable/Disable Assets Based on Channel
You can enable and disable specific assets based on channels. This means you can configure Jasper to publish an asset to one channel, and disable it for another channel.
Add all assets to be used into Default.
Navigate to the channel you want to override using the drop down.
You can then enable/disable, or change thumbnail settings for that specific channel.
3. Reorder Assets
To change the order in which product assets are displayed on the product pages you can reorder them in the PIM.
From the assets tab, click and drag any image up or down to designate a new image order.
Repeat this until you are satisfied with the changes
Click Save Asset Order to save and trigger a sync of the new image order
4. Edit an Asset Name and Description
The PIM allows to setup custom settings for images. The following fields can be setup when we select to edit an Asset:
Version
Name
Description
Type
Follow the steps below to Edit an Asset:
From the Assets tab, click the gear icon under the “Action” for the image you wish to edit
Select “Edit”
Select the Version you want the Asset to be published
Make edits to Name, Description, and Type
Select “Cancel” to leave the page without making any changes
Select “Save” to save your edits and trigger a sync
5. Remove an Asset
From the Assets Tab, click the gear icon under “Action” next to the asset you wish to remove
Select “Delete”
6. Working With Other Asset Types
Jasper PIM can support non-image assets. However, these will not get published to e-commerce platforms as they are largely unsupported.
7. Referencing a non-image asset
If you would like to reference a non-image asset when publishing to an e-commerce platform such as BigCommerce or Shopify, please follow these directions:
BigCommerce
Upload the file through the BC WebDAV using this article. To reference the file on a product, grab the public URL of the file and proceed to the PIM portion.
Shopify
Upload the file directly to the Shopify CDN by following the directions in this article. Once uploaded, the URL will be visible next to the file. Copy the URL and proceed to the PIM section.
PIM
After uploading the file to the correct location and copying the file URL, create a simple text attribute in the PIM. Assign the attribute to your product, either manually or as part of an attribute set and then paste the URL of the file into the attribute value field.
On your platform's theme, you will need to customize the product page template to display the attribute as a link to allow customers to access it.