You can manually assign variants to an asset or group alternates of assets. In addition to that you may have other relations that your Catalog Administrator has created – so called custom relations.

You can manually group alternates of assets. When you group them as alternates you have to determine one as the preferred alternate.

Select the records of the assets you want to become alternates and select Metadata > Assign Relation > Alternates. Then a message prompts you to select the preferred alternate. Select the record you want to be the preferred alternate (master) and click OK.

To delete such relations you must delete the corresponding entries in the Related Sub Assets and Related Master Assets fields from the Alternates tab in the Information window or view.

To get the alternates of an asset listed, use the split view and an according list option (Sub-Pane Filter). For more information, see “How does Cumulus Display Relations between Assets?” .

You can manually assign variants to an asset. The asset you assign them to is called the source of the variant.

Select the records of the assets you want to assign as variants to a source asset and select Metadata > Assign Relation > Variants. Then a message prompts you to select the source. Select the record you want to be the one assigned as the source of the variants (master) and click OK.

To delete such relations you must delete the corresponding entries in the Related Sub Assets and Related Master Assets fields from the Variants tab in the Information window or view.

To get the variants of an asset listed, use the split view and an according list option (Sub-Pane Filter). For more information, see “How does Cumulus Display Relations between Assets?” .

You can manually assign custom relations to assets. Custom relations are defined by your Catalog Administrator for the current catalog.

Select the records of the assets you want to become related and select Metadata > Assign Relation and then the desired relation type. A message prompts you to select the master asset. Select the record you want to be the master and click OK.

To delete such relations you must delete the corresponding entries in the Related Sub Assets and Related Master Assets fields from the tab in the Information window or view that is named as the relation type.

To get the alternates of an asset listed, use the split view and an according list option (Sub-Pane Filter). For more information, see “How does Cumulus Display Relations between Assets?” .

For more information watch the video tutorials Using Asset Relations and Configuring Asset Relations.