Asset Library in SharePoint 2010

Introduction

 

Today, in this article let's play around with one of the interesting and most useful concepts in SharePoint 2010.

Question: What is an Asset Library?

 

In simple terms "It enables sharing and managing audio, video and image files across the site".

 

I think we are now good to go and implement this wonderful concept.

 

Step 1: Open SharePoint 2010 Central Administration and navigate to a specific site:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Step 2: Navigate to "Site Actions" ->   "More Options...":

 

 

 

Step 3: Select "Asset Library" from the listed categories. Give a name to the library:

 

 

 

 

Step 4: The Asset Library is created; the site now looks like this:

 

 

 

Step 5: Click on "Upload an image." and locate in local directory:

 

 

 

Step 6: The "Upload Document" dialogue box appears:

 

 

 

Step 7: Giving name to the selected item:

 

 

 

Step 8: Viewing the uploaded item:

 

 

 

Step 9: Uploading audio asset:

 

 

 

 

 

Step 10: Giving a name to the selected item:

 

 

 

Step 11: Playing the uploaded item:

 

 

 

I hope this article is useful for you.