Asset Listing - isolate particular assets?

Squiz Matrix Support
1

Is it possible to isolate particular assets that you don't want to appear in an asset listing?


I am using a mixture of asset listings and redirect pages to provide links to various resources across the site (see the diagrams below for the back-end and front-end views respectively).


    Asset Listing 1 (Type 1 Link)
      |- Redirect 1 (Type 2 Link)
      |- Redirect 2 (Type 2 Link)
      |- Asset Listing 2 (Type 1 Link)
          |- Redirect 3 (Type 2 Link)
          |- Redirect 4 (Type 2 Link)
      |- Asset Listing 3 (Type 1 Link)
          |- Redirect 5 (Type 2 Link)
          |- Redirect 6 (Type 2 Link)
      |- Redirect 7 (Type 1 Link)


    Asset Listing 1
      |- Asset Listing 2
      |- Asset Listing 3
      |- Redirect 7


Each asset listing page is set to show subs only, and to display Redirect Pages. Therefore clicking on Asset Listing 2 will display a list showing Redirect 3 and Redirect 4. So far, so good - it meets the requirements beautifully.

Similarly, clicking on Asset Listing 1 will display a list showing Redirect 1, Redirect 2 and Redirect 7, but this is where the problem is. I need Redirect 1 and Redirect 2 to appear in that list, but I don't want Redirect 7 to show on the Asset Listing, only on the menu. Is there any way I can tell it to leave this particular asset off the list?

Thanks for your help.
2

You cant explicitly remove an asset from the asset listing, but you could possible get around this.


Asset Listing 1 has Redirect 1 and Redirect 2 linked to not show in the menu, so you're obviously only using them for listings. You might want to break this strucutre out using folders and point Asset Listing 1 at the folder.


    Asset Listing 1 (Type 1 Link)
     |- Redirects Folder (Type 2 Link)
         |- Redirect 1 (Type 2 Link)
         |- Redirect 2 (Type 2 Link)
     |- Asset Listing 2 (Type 1 Link)
         |- Redirect 3 (Type 2 Link)
         |- Redirect 4 (Type 2 Link)
     |- Asset Listing 3 (Type 1 Link)
         |- Redirect 5 (Type 2 Link)
         |- Redirect 6 (Type 2 Link)
     |- Redirect 7 (Type 1 Link)


If you now point Asset Listing 1 at Redirects Folder, Redirect 7 will appear in the menu under Asset Listing 1 but will not be displayed in the asset listing results.

You can do something similiar to the other redirects to make mangement easier. You could have something like this:

    Asset Listing 1 (Type 1 Link)
     |- Asset Listing 2 (Type 1 Link)
     |- Asset Listing 3 (Type 1 Link)
     |- Redirect 7 (Type 1 Link)
    Redirects Folder (Type 2 Link)
     |- AL1 (Type 1 Link)
         |- Redirect 1 (Type 1 Link)
         |- Redirect 2 (Type 1 Link)
     |- AL2 (Type 1 Link)
         |- Redirect 3 (Type 1 Link)
         |- Redirect 4 (Type 1 Link)
     |- AL 3 (Type 1 Link)
         |- Redirect 5 (Type 1 Link)
         |- Redirect 6 (Type 1 Link)


Now you can change the asset listings to point at the correct redirect folders, share redirect pages if required, and not have to worry about links so much.
3

Thanks for that! I've been concentrating so hard on getting my head around the way this navigation has to be structured that it didn't even occur to me to use a folder (and possibly multiple folders).


Cheers.