Using the Associations App

The Associations app provides features for viewing and editing relations between assets. Using the Associations app you can do the following:

View, add, edit, and delete associations between Asset Management assets
View relatives of Production Management assets

In the following the umbrella term “relations” is used if both associations and relatives are affected at the same time; in the same way the umbrella term “relation types” is used for association types and relative types.

The Associations app is used to show you all assets that are related to the source asset open in the app. You can view the displayed relations and navigate and preview the related assets. The following illustration shows an example for associations of an Asset Management video open in the Associations app.

	Display or Control	Description
1	Asset title	Displays the name of the asset that is currently loaded into the Associations app (“source asset”). When you hover the mouse pointer over the menu an asset card appears that shows metadata of the source asset. Double-click the asset card to open the source asset in the Asset Editor. See Opening Related Assets in the Asset Editor. You can click the down arrow on the Asset title menu to display and access recently viewed assets. See Opening Recently Viewed Assets.
2	Navigate to Parent button	Navigates to the parent of the asset in the pane (Asset Management hierarchical associations only). The button is only enabled if the asset that is open in the app has one parent asset. If it has no parent or more than one parent asset, the button is disabled. See Switching Between Related Assets Within the App.
3	Pin button	Toggles pinning of the current asset on or off. When pinning is toggled on, the button is colored blue. Pinning prevents the current asset from being replaced by an asset from another app. Pinning does not disable opening another asset from within the app using navigation or the recently viewed assets menu.
4	Refresh button	Refreshes the current view in the app.
5	Expand All and Collapse All buttons	Expand All button expands all relation types and shows all relations in the app. Collapse All button hides all relations from the app and shows only the relation types. See Viewing Relations.
6	View option buttons	Lets you toggle the Relations area layout between Card view and List view. See View Options.
7	Display and sorting options	Lets you define sorting criteria and the metadata information displayed in the asset card pop-up window (Card view) or columns (List view). See Sort By Menu, Sort Order Menu and Display Options Menu.
8	Dock and Close buttons	Docks the Associations app and closes the Associations app.
9	Remove Association(s) button	(Asset Management only) Removes the selected association(s). The button is only enabled if at least one association is selected that the user has the right to delete. See Deleting Associations (Asset Management).
10	Filter button	Toggles the Filters sidebar on and off. When toggled on, the button is colored blue, and the Filters sidebar is shown to the left of the Relations area. When toggled off, the button is colored white, and the Filters sidebar is hidden. See Showing and Hiding the Filters Sidebar. The number beside the Filter button indicates the number of selected relation types. If all types are selected, no number is shown. If all types are deselected, 0 is shown. See Filtering the Displayed Relation Types.
11	Filters sidebar	Lets you define a filter for displaying associated assets or relative types. See Filtering the Displayed Relation Types.
12	Relation Types	Each relation type that is set for the current asset is shown as a separate group. For each relation type, the following are shown: A type icon The type name followed by the number of associations / relatives in brackets An Expand / Collapse toggle button. Use the button to show and hide the relations of the type.
13	Relations Area	Shows all assets related with the current asset grouped by relation types. You can expand and collapse all types in the Relations area using the toolbar Expand and Collapse buttons. You can filter the displayed relation types using the Filters sidebar. You can show the Relations area in Card view or List view layout. See Display Options in the Card and List View Layout.
14	Relations	Each associated asset (“association”) resp. related asset (“relative”) is shown as an asset card in Card view or row in List view. Double-click the asset card to open the asset in the Asset Editor. See Opening Related Assets in the Asset Editor.