Virtual Collections
This page describes the concept of asset collections.
Many a times, we need to club different type of digital assets like images, videos together and refer them as one single unit. Collections are designed to handle those scenarios. Collections can accommodate one type of virtual assets or multiple types of assets.
Simple example, a product on a eCommerce site, where product has multiple images, 3D model, videos, PDFs and specification data in JSON. It is always advisable to group them together to access everywhere.
Collection has two main components -
Definition - This collection Id, Name and other attributes
Items - actual files of various types of virtual assets
Collection has a few characteristics -
Collection can contain various types of assets and it can be restricted
Number of items can be restricted. Maximum limit is 1000.
Collection can not have any version
Collection can be tagged with particular platform
Some of the real world examples for collections -
Product images, videos, pdf in ecommerce site
Tutorial videos, transcripts, questions in learning site
Game assets in video games
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