Assets are pieces of text, video, and photo content stored in Yext. They enable you to quickly access and apply frequently used content such as logos, slogans, templates for social posts, and other content.
Assets also allow you to manage content authoring by ensuring that your team is only using pre-approved or standardized content.
You can apply an asset by clicking the asset icon anywhere you see it while editing content in Yext:
This article details how to create a photo asset.
- To create a different type of asset, see Add a Text Asset, Add a Video Asset, or Add a Custom Asset.
- To edit an asset, see Edit an Asset.
- To delete an asset, see Delete an Asset.
- To use assets in Reviews, see Create Assets for Templated Review Response.
Add a photo asset
- Navigate to Knowledge Graph > Assets.
- Click the Add Asset dropdown and select Photo.
- Enter a name for your asset. You can also set the language if you are using multi-language entity profiles.
- In the Content section, click Select Photo and choose whether to upload a file or image URL.
- Accepted file formats: JPG, PNG, WEBP, GIF (static only)
- Accepted file formats: JPG, PNG, WEBP, GIF (static only)
- Modify your photo if desired. When finished, click Done.
- Set an aspect ratio.
- Crop the photo by clicking and dragging the borders.
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Rotate the photo to the left or right.
- Set additional details for your photo.
- Enter the rest of your asset details.
- Usage: select the places in Yext you want to be able to apply the asset to. Choose Entity Fields and/or Social Posting.
- Description
- Labels: (optional) asset labels can also be used to restrict which assets are available to a custom field. To do so, add a specific label to the asset, then add the same label to the custom field.
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For entities: choose which entities this asset can be applied to. You can narrow down entities by folder and/or entity label. (Note that entity labels are separate from asset labels.)
- Click Save Asset or Save and Add Another.