COMSOL 6.2 - The Asset Page

The Asset Page

The page shows the latest version of an asset by default. The toolbar at the top of the page contains the buttons:

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. Edit the asset and save the changes as a new version — see Editing an Asset.

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. Set permissions for the asset — see Granting Permissions to an Asset.

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. Set the owner of the asset — see Transfer Ownership of an Asset.

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. View older versions of the asset — see Asset Version History.

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. Delete the asset — see Deleting an Asset.

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. Permanently delete the asset — see Deleting an Asset.

The asset page has a top section containing the title, description, and thumbnail image of the asset. The upper right corner shows:

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. The asset library that the asset belongs to.

A new Model Manager server installation comes predefined with a single asset library with the name . See also Asset Libraries.

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. The user currently set as the owner of the asset.

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. The point in time when the version was saved.

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. The user that saved the version.

Links to other, related, assets in the asset management system are shown in the section. Click on a link to open the corresponding page for the related asset.

Other data fields for the asset are shown in collapsible sections further down on the page. The default asset page has two such sections:

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. A table with model versions in the database that are linked by the asset. Click on the title to open The Model Page for the model version.

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. A table with supplementary file attachments uploaded on the asset. Click on the filename to download the file to your computer.


	See Customizing the Asset Management System to learn how you can extend the asset page by adding custom data fields tailored to the needs of your projects and workflow. See Searching on Asset Attributes to learn how you can search assets by matching on those data fields.

Editing an Asset

Click to make changes to the asset. The page is shown with various input fields for updating its data, similar to when adding a new asset. You can change the title, description, and thumbnail image of the asset, as well as add or remove model version links and attached files. None of the changes made on the page are stored in the database until you click , in which case all changes are saved collectively as a new asset version. Click to return the page to its read mode with all data restored as it was before the edit began.

Searching for Model Versions to Add

Click the button in a table row to add or replace a linked model version. You can search among the latest versions of models by writing search terms in the field — you can write both plain search words as well as any number of filter expressions using the Model Manager search syntax. Plain search words will match on the titles, descriptions, tags, and filenames of models.

Select the repository and branch to search in via the and lists, respectively. These lists are hidden if there is only one repository and branch in the database.


	See Searching and Filtering in the Model Manager Reference Manual.

The search result is shown in a paginated table. Click on a title to show more details about that model version. Click the button to link the model version to the asset.

Rearranging Table Rows

You can rearrange the rows in a table by moving the mouse pointer over the crossed arrows icon in a row, pressing and holding down the mouse button to “grab” the row, moving the mouse pointer to “drag” the row to its desired location in the table, and then releasing the mouse button to “drop” the row in its new location.

Relating Assets

You can add links to other assets in the asset management system on the page as a way of relating them to the current asset.

Click the pen icon in the section.

In the dialog box, write the title of the asset you want to add a link to.

Select the asset from the result list.

Click .

You can repeat steps 2 and 3 to add multiple assets at once.

Transfer Ownership of an Asset

You control who can set permissions on assets via ownerships — every asset has an owner, which is one of the Users in the database. Except for root administrators, only the owner can change an asset’s permissions. The user that creates an asset is automatically set as its initial owner.


	See Owners in the Model Manager Reference Manual.

You can transfer the ownership of an asset to another user if you own the asset or are a root administrator. Select in the list opened via the button. In the opened dialog box, the field shows the username of the user that currently owns the asset. Under , select the user to transfer ownership to. Click .

Granting Permissions to an Asset

You can change permissions for an asset if you own the asset or are a root administrator. Granting permissions to users and groups enables you to control, for example, who can view the asset or make changes to the asset. All available permissions for an asset are listed in Table 4-1.


	See Granting Permissions in the Model Manager Reference Manual.

Table 4-1: All available permissions for assets.


Permission	Description
Open asset	Allowed to see and open an asset.
Save asset	Allowed to save versions of the asset.
Delete asset	Allowed to delete the asset.
Restore asset	Allowed to restore the asset when deleted.

To set permissions, select in the list opened via the button. In the list in the opened dialog box:

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Select to not set any permission requirements on the asset.

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Select , , or to set a predefined permission template — see Predefined Permission Templates in the Model Manager Reference Manual.

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Select one of the user-defined permission templates for assets — see Permission Templates.

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Select to set up custom permissions for the asset — see Custom Permissions in the Model Manager Reference Manual.

Click to save the new permissions for the asset.

Asset Version History

You can view older versions of an asset on the page. Click on the page to show a table with all versions listed in chronological order. Click on a version in the column to see how the asset looked in that version. To restore the asset from an older version, click . The older version will be automatically resaved as a new latest version.

Click the button to navigate to the page.

Deleting an Asset

Click on the page to delete the asset. The asset will still be present in the database but no longer show up in search results by default. To restore a previously deleted asset, click .

Select in the list opened via the toggle button next to the button to permanently delete the asset and all its versions.


	Permanently deleting an asset cannot be undone unless you restore the Model Manager server database from a backup.