Once enabled, you'll be directed to a page where you can download the plugin. Quit any Adobe applications in use, select the installer to run, and follow any setup instructions.
You can find the extension under Window > Extensions > CI HUB in your Adobe application..
Navigate the integration
Connections
Connections allow you to choose which service you want to connect to—in this case, Brandfolder. You can activate or deactivate the connection at any time.
Select Add New Connection and scroll down to Brandfolder. This opens a page in your web browser that prompts you to enter your API Key.
Search
Searching in CI Hub works similarly to searching on Media Manager. If your search query pulls in too much content, narrow it down with strict searches. Do this by putting asset names and tags in quotes, for example: “DEMO” AND “2018”.
You can also use pinned searches and queries by selecting tags or using advanced filters in Media Manager, for example:
- tags.strict:"08"
- (tags.strict:"Sky" OR tags.strict:"Outdoors") AND filetype.strict:"jpg"
Navigation
Folder navigation
Folder Navigation allows you to visually sort through the content hierarchy of your Media Manager. This method can find assets in a specific section or collection.
Link navigation
Link Navigation shows the linked images in your document that are also connected to Media Manager. Setting images using CI HUB automatically populates this list.
The computer icon indicates when a local copy of the linked image is unavailable. This means that another designer is working on the InDesign document. You can relink these images individually or all at once using the sync buttons on the right side of the panel. This pulls the most current version of the asset into your document.
Filters
Keep in mind:
- The filter dropdown lets you narrow down the results when sorting through the content in Media Manager.
- Filter options change depending on which navigation option is currently active.
- The filter checkboxes allow sorting by generic content types (images, videos, layouts, and more).
- Filtering by Keywords (available when using Folder Navigation) pulls a list of tags for the area you're searching, including a count for how many results you can expect to find with the rest of your filters active.
- The Keywords bar remains inactive when no other combinations of tags are possible. Selecting the X to the right of the tag removes it from your filters.
Edits
Download file
The details tab is where you can interact with assets from Media Manager. To bring content into your application, select download file.
Here, you can choose how to bring content into the application and a location for the image to live locally. You can also drag and drop the image from the plugin to quickly place and link it. The file will be downloaded to the default target folder.
TIP: Selecting / Alt replaces an image behind a selected image frame and matches the existing cropping settings.
Update file
Update file takes either your active document or a local image and uploads it as a new version of your asset. This change is visible in the version history found under the workflow tab of the asset in Media Manager.
Open in browser
Open in Browser takes you directly to the asset in Brandfolder.
Upload new asset
Add File uploads a new asset using your active document or a file on your local system. You must use the folder navigation to find where you would add the asset. You can find Add File above the result for that area.