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Distinction between asset and rendition too strong

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Magnolia offers me a list of all digital assets used on all sites or one site in particular. It shows all assets in all folders at once. I can search the list using a text, but can also apply additional filters to e.g. restrict the list to only show assets which are currently published.

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The list view is very convenient to sort all existing assets using one of the criteria shown by columns. The columns shown typically also contain the asset's status (published, changed and published, unpublished) and an indicator if the asset is currently in a work flow.

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Rendition rows must be selectable. Selecting a rendition shows a preview and the list of actions applicable to it in the sidebar. The information shown by the preview is similar to UX:details shown on an asset, but focuses on rendition information instead.

It's ok to allow a user to select both renditions and assets at the same time, even though the actions and preview view may then not show much of interest and mostly disabled actions only.

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By default, the list view shows the list of assets. You may UX:open an asset to show its renditions. A switch in the toolbar allows to switch the list to show the (flat) list of all renditions instead. This comes in handy if you would like to sort renditions by one of the criteria offered by the table columns or if you'd like to restrict the list to only show items you may actually place on a page (that's what renditions are for).

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