{"id":22062,"date":"2020-05-06T15:59:08","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T15:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dam_for_developers_advanced_search_and_discovery"},"modified":"2024-06-05T16:37:41","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T23:37:41","slug":"dam_for_developers_advanced_search_and_discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudinary.com\/blog\/dam_for_developers_advanced_search_and_discovery","title":{"rendered":"DAM for Developers: Advanced Search and Discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my last post, we spoke about Access Control<\/a>. With Cloudinary\u2019s digital asset management (DAM) solution<\/a>, you can, with just a few keystrokes from your Cloudinary dashboard, perform advanced search on the media assets (images and videos) you\u2019ve uploaded to the Media Library and retrieve the ones you desire. This article shows you how.<\/p>\n

Search and Discovery<\/h2>\n

To search for an asset in your DAM account, click the Media Library<\/strong> tab and type the asset\u2019s name in the search text-field, as shown here:<\/p>\n

\"media\nMedia library<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Search\"\nSearching for eden<\/code><\/em><\/p>\n

In the above example, the search results show assets whose file names do not<\/strong> contain the string eden<\/code>. That\u2019s because regular search in Cloudinary DAM looks for assets that contain the search keyword in their file names and<\/strong> those that have been tagged with a name that contains eden<\/code>. In the image above, for example, the first four images on the left were tagged with eden-android<\/code> after upload.<\/p>\n

Advanced Search and Discovery<\/h2>\n

Advanced search<\/strong> in Cloudinary DAM accords you the ability to specify many more criteria to narrow down search results. You don\u2019t know the name of the asset you want to search for? You want to search for a group of assets? Or look for an asset from a previous campaign or one through a metadata field? No worries. Advanced search helps you locate media assets by means of robust filtering of your search criteria.<\/p>\n

Activation<\/h3>\n

To activate advanced search, click the filter icon to the left of the search icon in the search text-field. A wide drop-down menu with three tabs (General<\/strong>, Metadata<\/strong>, and Format & Size<\/strong>) is then displayed, as shown below:<\/p>\n

\"Activation\nActivation of Advanced Search and Discovery<\/em><\/p>\n

The General Tab<\/h3>\n

Under the General<\/strong> tab, you can search with the criteria shown in the screenshot below. Choose as many criteria as you desire.<\/p>\n

\"General<\/p>\n