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Put your assets on stage

May 02, 2007

With the new version of fluxiom, we want to introduce a new powerful feature to you: Stages.

“Putting your assets on stage” means giving a client restricted access to some of your assets. In the following article we’ll give a practical example on what “Stages” are able to do and how to use it.

Let’s say we have a client called “Roger”. We assume that we’ll have to create a small ad for him and he wants to get noticed about how the current version looks like and about changes we made.

For this job, we’ll create a tag “Roger’s assets” and apply it to all the assets we want to give Roger access to.
When done, click on the “Roger’s assets” tag in the tag bar to see only the assets with that specific tag. This view will exactly be the view that Roger is going to see when he wants to access assets.

Let’s create a stage for this view. A click on the “Stage” button will unveil the “Create stage” panel.

• Enter a title (for example: “Roger’s assets”).
• Enter an optional message: This message will be shown on the top of the stages screen. You can use it for example for copyright notices and you can also use textile to format this text and embed an e-mail link for example. (Read more about textile formatting).
• Enter email addresses of people you want to give access to the stage (you can always add or delete guests later).
• Enable sneak preview if you don’t want to allow downloading of your assets.
• Create the stage by clicking on “Create stage”.

Click on the “Stages” tab to get an overview of all stages that have been created. Each Stage has an “edit” link to change title and description as well as an option to invite and delete guests.

After the “Roger’s assets” stage has been created, Roger will get an email with a link to the stage and a magic phrase to login.

Now he’s able to preview and download (depending on what you allow) all assets tagged with “Roger’s assets”.

If you need to add more assets to this stage, just tag them with “Roger’s assets” and they’ll automatically appear on the stage.

Note: Roger can easily stay up-to-date by subscribing to the stages’ RSS feed. Whenever an asset gets added or updated he’ll get a notice.

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