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Working With Files

The File Manager

Files such as images and documents, that are used in the editorial parts of the sample website, are stored in the File Manager of EPiServer CMS, just as for any other EPiServer CMS site. With editorial content, we hereby mean web pages with content that is created from the EPiServer CMS Edit mode. For instance, this could be a news section with news items, or articles related to products on the e-commerce website.

The Asset Manager sub-system is made available in the File Manager of the sample site as the Commerce Assets starting point, making it possible to work with all files on the website from one place.

You work with folders and files in the Commerce Assets folder structure just as you do with other parts of the File Manager. You can copy and move folders from Commerce Assets to other starting points such as Global Files. However you cannot move or copy folders and files from other starting points to Commerce Assets, since versioning is not supported. Also, metadata is not supported for the files under Commerce Assets structure, so these fields need not to be filled in when adding new files to the structure.

To find out more about general file management in EPiServer CMS, please refer to the EPiServer CMS user documentation.

The Asset Manager

Files can also be managed from the Asset Management sub-system in Commerce Manager. The Asset Manager folder structure can be used for storing documents related to products in the product catalog. This can be for instance user guides, software downloads or product sheets. Each asset file can then be related to a product in the product catalog.

For more information about asset management, please refer to the Asset Management section.

File Formats

Files stored in EPiServer Commerce are often image files in different formats such as .jpg or .png, or documents in .pdf formats. However, files stored in EPiServer Commerce can be of almost any type since a wide selection of file formats are supported. Depending on how your website is configured, files will also be indexed and appear in the global search for the website.