New to DAM?

Hello and welcome to introductory DAM training!  Following materials will help you understand what Aprimo DAM can offer and how best to utilize its features.  It will illustrate how to:

• Find the content you need
• Download or distribute assets for usage
• Collaborate within the solution with your colleagues
• Upload and enrich new content
• Do other interesting things  within Aprimo DAM.
  
  Part 1: Consumer materials
  Part 2: Contributor materials

Consumer materials

There are four different user roles operate within Aprimo DAM:  Consumer, Contributor, DAM Librarian, and System Administrator. 

Let us start with the basic role:  Consumer.

This user role only has Read Only access to the  DAM library.  The consumer's  main focus is searching and browsing for content so that they can download it for usage. The Consumer role permissions are included in the other 3 user roles; however, the other 3 user roles have, in addition, more advanced -- or elevated --  permissions.

3. Filters

Learn how to use filters or use searching mechanism in DAM to find content of interest.

Video training  (duration ~6 min)
Quick Reference Guide

4. Asset metadata / layouts

Find out:

• How assets and their metadata are represented in DAM;
• How we can apply different layouts  for different types of assets;
• What methods we may use to  establish associations between assets.

Video training (duration ~ 11min)
Quick Reference Guide

5. Asset Menus

Within these materials you will learn how to interact with assets by utilizing a variety of menu options. 

Video training  (duration ~5 min)
Quick Reference Guide

6. Download options

Here we focus on different options you have for the  download assets from DAM. 

Video training (duration ~ 3 min)
Quick Reference Guide

7. Share / Collaborate

Discover how to share assets and how to collaborate with other users, as well as how to find similar content in DAM. 

Video training  (duration ~4 min)
Quick Reference Guide

8. Bulk management

Learn how to work with assets in bulk by placing assets in basket and utilizing basket menu options.

Video training (duration ~ 4 min)
Quick Reference Guide

9.  Collections

Aprimo DAM allows end users to create collections of assets for different purposes and then to  share them with other DAM users.  Learn how to work with collections here!

Video training  (duration ~10 min)
Quick Reference Guide

Contributor materials

As mentioned earlier, there are 4 user roles that work within DAM:  Consumer, Contributor,  the DAM Librarian, and the System Administrator.  

Next lets focus on the Contributor role.

While consumers  utilize assets already in DAM,  Contributors can add or edit content within the DAM.

While uploading  assets to DAM, Contributors can enrich them with metadata so that they can be located and reused for any future use case.

1. Manage Assets

Learn how to upload new assets to DAM and how to  edit -- either individually or in bulk --  to provide asset metadata. 

Video training  (duration ~5 min)
Quick Reference Guide

2.  Edit Assets

Find out how to  edit assets in different ways in Content Workspace:

• Editing metadata,
• Adding file versions,
• Changing content type

Video training (duration ~ 6 min)
Quick Reference Guide

3.  Image Crop &  Video Trim

Discover how to use DAM "out of the box" features to crop image assets or trim videos via UI. 

Video training  (duration ~4 min)
Quick Reference Guide - Trimming Videos
Quick Reference Guide - Cropping Images

4.  Public Links / Quick Connect

If you want to learn more about generating public links to DAM assets, and browsing public content using QuickConnect browser extension, check out these materials. 

Video training (duration ~ 4 min)
Quick Reference Guide - Public Links
Quick Reference Guide - QuickConnect

5. Simple Workflows

DAM offers some simple workflows to  review assets and assign a task to another DAM user. Check out how to use these features here: 

Video training  (duration ~10 min)
Quick Reference Guide

6. Brand guidelines

Learn how to create and maintain brand guidelines within the DAM, to provide visibility to other DAM users regarding  all of your company's branding information.

Video training (duration ~5 min)
Quick Reference Guide

7. Security

Learn how security and access to assets are controlled within DAM.

Video training  (duration ~ 8 min)