How does Cumulus Know about Relations between Assets?

1. Contain – The Cumulus Asset Storage modules detect if an asset contains other assets when the asset is cataloged.

2. References – The Cumulus AXR (Asset Cross References) function detects if an asset includes references to other assets when the asset is cataloged.

3. Variants – The user can determine that an asset derives from a source asset or Cumulus can ascertain that automatically if the deriving asset was created using a Cumulus function.(For a description on how to determine such a relation, see “Assigning Variants” .)

4. Alternates – The user can create groups of alternate assets. An asset is determined as an alternate by assigning it to the’preferred alternate’. (For a description on how to determine such a relation, see “Assigning Alternates” .)

The information on an asset’s relations is stored in the record fields Related Master Assets and Related Sub Assets. The field Related Sub Assets stores the information which assets are contained, referenced, deriving, or alternates. Whereas the field Related Master Assets stores the information in which other assets the asset is contained in, referenced by, derives from, or which asset is its preferred alternate.

Asset Store	Items	Asset Store	Items
Apple iWork Picture	Images	Office Open XML Pictures and Media	Images, media
Apple Keynote Slides	Slides (pages)	Open Document	Images
HELIOS XPV	Pages; QXP Pages (but D&D not possible)	PDF**	Pages
InDesign	Pages (but D&D not possible)	PDF Image**	Images
Mac Binary	Assets	QXP	Pages, layouts
MS PowerPoint	Slides (pages)	QXP Server**	Pages, layouts (but D&D not possible)
MS PowerPoint Picture	Images	Video**	Shots
Office Open XML Pages and Slides	Pages, sheets, slides	ZIP	Assets
** with Options only (not included in any standard edition/solution)