Uploading Assets

Users with sufficient privileges can upload assets to NetX and apply attribute data to the new assets.

Uploading assets

Upload button

1. Click the Upload button along the header of the application.
2. Add files to the upload by: dragging files to the window, clicking the New upload button, or clicking the Click here to add files button.
3. Configure your upload as desired.

Upload to folder

You can initiate an upload action for a specific folder by:

• Click a folder's action menu in the folder tree and select Upload to folder from the available options.
• When viewing a folder in the gallery, click the gallery action button and select Upload to folder.

Drag to upload

Drag files into the gallery to begin an upload. If files are dragged into a folder gallery, that folder will be used as the upload's destination location. 

Upload window

Before performing an upload, you can preview the assets, customize a destination folder, and add attribute data to the incoming assets. You will see:

1. The number of files included in the current upload action. Use the + button to open a local file picker, or the X to remove all files added to the upload window. 

2. The destination folder. This field is mandatory and will prompt you to Select folder if a destination is not yet chosen. If initiating an upload by dragging files to a folder or using an Upload to folder action, this will be pre-populated with that folder destination. 

   Privileged users can also create a new folder in the same upload action. Note: If you choose to create a folder, that folder will be added in NetX if it's not used as the final upload destination.

3. The upload queue previews thumbnail, file sizes, and file names. If the file name is truncated, hover over the file name for a few seconds to view the full label. Remove a single file from the queue with X. 
4. When all required upload fields have been filled or set, the Upload button will enable and initiate an upload to NetX. 

5. Narrow Attribute sets presented you with attributes according to your selection of either a user or system attribute set. 

   Note that while only one attribute set may be edited at a time for a single upload, selecting All values as your attribute set allows you to edit all attributes in one action. If you change attribute sets after you have already edited attribute fields, these changes will be lost. 

6. Custom attributes according to your selected attribute set. These values will apply to all uploaded assets. System attributes will not be visible, even if they are part of the chosen attribute set. 
   Note if mandatory attributes are enforced, those will remain visible regardless of the chosen attribute set and must be filled before an upload can take place.
7. The storage location for the new assets. For most, this will be Internal storage. For sites also connected to other location services such as S3, use the dropdown to select a different storage location.

Multiple uploads

Additional upload batches — including a different folder location, storage location, and new attribute data — can be added to the queue even while another upload is taking place.

Resuming uploads

Once your upload begins, NetX will immediately begin processing your files in the order in which they are received. There may be situations where you need to briefly pause an upload, or want to adjust the order in which the files are being processed, e.g. to allow smaller files to upload before larger files present in the queue. NetX allows for the resumption of uploads after an unexpected interruption or after a file has been manually paused. 

Notes about pausing and resuming uploads:

• After the file has been physically transferred to the NetX server and is in a processing state, you will no longer be able to pause the file in progress. This is indicated by a disabled pause button for the asset or entire upload.
• While NetX does its best to retain queued files in the event of an internet disruption or session timeout, it's not always possible to resume the upload automatically. In addition to Resume, you may be prompted to Re-select file or Retry; if the file is unrecoverable, it will read as Failed. For more information regarding these states see Upload window below.
• Paused items can’t be resumed until you re-select or remove ALL files that need attention.
• The upload window is designed to retain your queue in the event of a disruption, but this is not maintained across devices or sessions in other browsers. If you were to start an upload using your NetX account on your laptop you would not be able to view or manage the upload from your mobile device. 
• The upload queue is not maintained in perpetuity; paused or interrupted files will be removed from the queue after 24 hours.

Upload queue

1. Once an upload is in progress, you will be able to see the upload's progress status as well as an indicator if any issues have been detected during the upload process. 
2. New upload initiates a new upload regardless of the progress of the current queue. 
3. View the number of Completed, Active, and Paused files in the queue. Clear Completed or Paused files individually from the queue with their respective X button. 
   Active files can not be removed. The Missing status button will scroll you to the first missing file for re-selection, if present.
4. Pause/Unpause the entire upload queue at once. 
5. The file's current status in the upload queue, which include:
   Processing: The file is captured in NetX, but is not yet a fully uploaded assets. Files will display as Processing while creating proxies, indexing for search, checking for duplicates, etc. When an asset is in this phase, it cannot be paused.
   View asset: When a file is fully uploaded to NetX, navigate directly to its asset detail page using the View asset button. 
   View duplicate: If duplicate asset detection is enabled, files determined to be duplicates of current assets will give you the opportunity to review the existing, duplicate asset. 
   Re-select file: If your upload is interrupted before NetX finishes processing the file, you may be prompted to re-select the file with an orange Re-select file button. You may only re-select the same file originally queued for upload. 
   Retry: If your upload is interrupted, you may be prompted by a red button to Retry the file. You do not need to re-select the file to restart the upload process.
   If a file has been Paused, unpause the upload individually with its Resume button. 
   Failed: If your upload is interrupted, can NetX is unable to even partially retrieve the file, a red Failed message will appear.
   Remove files from the queue using X. Once a file is being processed by NetX it can no longer be removed from the queue and must be deleted as an asset later. 
6. Each file in the queue appears with its thumbnail, file name, file size, and upload status. 

Duplicate filenames

NetX checks each new asset as it is uploaded to see if its filename matches an existing asset in the same folder. Depending on the property setting below, NetX can handle duplicate filenames in the following ways:

• Version the existing asset with the new asset; the existing asset will be retained as a prior version. If this setting is used, no new asset is created. Note: if both the filename and the file itself are duplicates, regardless of whether Duplicate Asset Detection is enabled, the import will fail.
• Rename the new asset with a numerical suffix, e.g. filename-1.jpg, filename-2.jpg, etc. If this setting is used, the asset is still uploaded to the folder as usual.
• Duplicate filename behavior is not to be confused with the Duplicate Asset Detection feature, which detects duplicates based on file content (MD5 checksum) rather than filename. However, if Duplicate Asset Detection is enabled and you upload a file with the same name and content as an existing one in the folder, with image.nameCollisionStrategy = 0, the duplicate filename workflow will take priority over duplicate asset detection.
• The properties below manage import filename collisions only. Move/add operations that detect duplicate filenames will prompt the user to skip or rename.