Linking not shown for image assets in CTA container

[AskingForAFriend (Jennifer Weiley)]

I am cleaning up unused and large images on our intranet (Workplace). However, if an image is referenced in a call-to-action container, the relationship doesn’t appear in the linking screen for the image.

I came close to deleting assets that are in use because the linking screen didn’t list any assets.

Is there some other way I could check whether an asset is in use when it’s being used by non-standard containers?

[Squiz Matrix v5.4.2.2]

[JohnGill]

Content container templates: notice links

Yea, this is currently not supported because of the way that Metadata is currently stored. We do know of this shortfall but haven’t been able to design a suitable solution to it yet. We are planning on refactoring the Linking screen later this year which will include the abiltiy to report on assets that are linked to metadata fields. We also need to do the same for Safe Trash checking, to make sure that when that’s on, you can’t delete assets that have ID references to related metadata fields …

Some discussion here, but as far as I can tell this feature still hasn’t landed and doesn’t have an ETA.

If the image is stored in a Related Asset Metadata Field as part of a Content Template, then you can find uses with a carefully crafted Search Page. If the image is just referenced in a WYSIWYG Metadata Field then that won’t work.

[AskingForAFriend (Jennifer Weiley)]

Thanks @JohnGill. I am also wondering if a Funnelback audit might be able to reveal dependencies. I have only started to dabble so not aware of the various tools that could be applied, such as internal linking.

Good to see that this requirement is on Bart’s radar.