Procedure for creating assets?

Squiz Matrix Support
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What is the procedure for creating assets in Matrix? Are there any help files or samples on how to do this?


Also, what is Package Manager and should we be using it?



Thanks.

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Package Manager is just an object that is used to install/update packages while installing and upgrading. It is not an asset and sits behind the scenes. You only need to worry about packages if you are creating a new one.


As of yet, there is no documentation on how to create your own asset type. We have a CHM file that will be released with RC2. It is a automaticalyl generated CHM from the internal comments. It should help with development quite a bit. For now though, the only real way of learning is to take a current asset, copy it, and modify it.



There is some information in a current thread in the development forum:

http://forums.matrix.squiz.net/index.php?showtopic=202

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Thanks for the info…


We have copied an asset and changed the name and basic details, but want to make this new asset available to the system, and can't seem to work out how to do this.

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You need to run step_03.php to get it to install.


$ cd MATRIX_ROOT

$ php install/step_03.php .