3 The Project & Asset Panel
The Project Pane lists every single editing project that you have access to and it lets you sort projects by different criteria. It also indicates the current status of a project.
3.1 Visual Presentation of Projects
Strawberry 4 provides you with a list view for editing projects. Each row contains the project name, the creation date, the project size and additional visual information showing the current state of a project. Project states can be “online”, “locked”, “being archived”, “being retrieved”, archived and frozen.
Projects displayed like this are online and ready to open.
Projects displayed like this are online but locked by another computer. Hover the lock icon to see by which computer it is currently locked.
The dot animation shows that a project is just on its way to the archive (animation moves left to right) or is currently being retrieved from the archive (animation moves right to left)
This project is in the archive. Its name is grayed out and it has a grey dot right to the project size.
This project is frozen. Its name is grayed out and it has a grey snowflake right to the project size.
3.2 Sorting Projects and Assets
Within the Project Pane, you can sort projects by
- Project/Asset Name (Name)
- Physical Size (Size)
- Creation Date (Created)
To sort your projects or assets based upon one of these criteria enable the “projects” checkbox below the search field (disable the “assets” checkbox) and click on “Name”, “Size” or “Created”. If you sort by one of these values click the value again to reverse the order of the search results in an Ascending or Descending manner.
3.3 Expanding/Contract Project Pane
To see the asset content of a project in the project list click on the arrow on the left to the project name. Strawberry will load the first 150 assets of the project sorted by name. For projects containing more than 150 assets, if you scroll down the asset list you will recognize a message saying “You have reached the maximum amount of displayable assets in this view. Click “View All Assets” to switch the view.” Click this button to let Strawberry load all the assets from this project. To contract the project (“hide” its assets) imply click on the arrow on the left of the project name again.
3.4 Switching Between Grid View and List View for Assets
To switch between grid view (a.k.a thumbnail view) or list view (a.k.a list of names) click the button on the right to the “sort by size” column.
3.5 Folder Navigation vs Flat Asset View
Purpose: When browsing projects, Strawberry offers two navigation styles from which users can choose in the user settings. The default View (navigation style) is the so called folder navigation. This view enables users to browse the content of projects just as they would to in a file browser. Additionally folder navigations gives user the ability to search assets within a specific folder of a project. The default view can be changed in the user settings which can be accessed by clicking the settings wheel in the lower right corner of the Strawberry client and then by choosing the desired navigation style from the “Navigation Style” drop down menu.
3.6 Switching Between Project and Asset View
To switch between the project and the asset view just check or uncheck the “projects” and “assets” checkboxes below the search field. If both checkboxes are enabled Strawberry will show projects and assets in the list.
