Is this paint layout or design used?

(Steve Brown) #1

Hi,


We are doing some spring cleaning and am trying to throw out a few things that may have been created a long time ago but possibly never used.



Is there a way to check whether a design or paint layout has been used in the system?



along a similar vein, is it possible to work out ALL the assets that a particular metadata schema has been applied to?



Thanks,



Steve

(Nic Hubbard) #2

You can do this by checking the linking screen. This will show you all the different kind of links that the asset has.
(Steve Brown) #3

Paint layouts dont work. But you're rigth about designs - they seem to show where they are applied.


Are paint layouts meant to do the same thing?

(Geoffroy Noel) #4

For Designs and Design Customisations you can also look at the "Usage" screen.
(Avi Miller) #5

[quote]Is there a way to check whether a design or paint layout has been used in the system?
along a similar vein, is it possible to work out ALL the assets that a particular metadata schema has been applied to?[/quote]



If the interface doesn't provide a simple mechanism, we can check your database for you. You could ask Squiz Support to do this.

(Nic Hubbard) #6

My bad. Yes, the usage screen works for Paint Layouts as well.

(Steve Brown) #7

Thats exactly what I need - thanks all.

(Sean O'hAodha) #8

Hi,

 

I was wondering if there is a way to get an entire list of assets that use a certain paint layout. The usage screen will tell me an asset id and a count of children below that but I need the asset ids of those children too. I know about the GetPaintLayoutFromUrl method in the SOAP API but I am on version 4.12.3 and that isn't available for me. Is there an easy way to get this from the database even? Thanks.