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Using System Assets
Mar. 6, 2012 by tbatchoo
- An asset allows you to generate content on your site
- Each site has access to its own assets
- Assets are available at File/New
- There are many types of content you can add to your web site.
- There are be specific assets set up for your site
- In the New dropdown are the assets that are available for your site.
- Here are some of the types you could use:
Page – This is a mutable asset built by the CMS from other assets to create the finished product of published documents such as web pages or XML documents.
File – may be an image, a pdf, a word doc or any other static content.
External Link – a link to a specific URL
Folder – a container within Cascade that acts a parent asset to other assets.
Reference – a special asset that is created to represent an existing asset in another location, allowing it to be indexed in multiple folders.
