Digital Asset Management Tools
Tools and features to streamline your workflow 
Xinet® WebNative® Suite features many tools that automate production and creative workflows to increase efficiency and productivity. Some of the most significant ones are briefly described here.
Boost productivity in your unique workflow with seamless integration
of WebNative Suite and Adobe Creative Suite.
WebNative Suite users who also use Adobe products can preview native Adobe files, view file information, access assets, and more—from any Web browser, anywhere in the world. Additionally, with a series of WebNative Suite plug-ins for Adobe InDesign, users enjoy the benefits of faster searching and placement of assets, easier collaboration with off-site contributors, and a streamlined approval process. WebNative Suite and Adobe CS, together, enhance your production workflow.
Enhance remote collaboration during reviews by centralizing document
mark-up with Annotations.
The Annotations feature facilitates efficiency throughout the review process—for local and off-site users—by offering a simple, centralized method for providing review comments. Every reviewer with proper permissions is able to comment on the same, centrally located document, while viewing comments made by other reviewers. Simplify participation and save time during review cycles with Annotations.
Simplify drag-and-drop layout of complex design pieces with Asset
Browser.
This feature allows local and remote designers to place assets directly
into an Adobe InDesign file from the WebNative Suite server, without ever
leaving the layout application. With secure log-in access to Asset Browser
built into InDesign, users can access, preview and search for assets with
simple, efficient navigation. Additional scripts further enhance Asset
Browser’s functionality by placing the metadata associated with an asset
directly into the file along with the image. With this feature, layout,
placement and formatting—even localized pricing and language information—is
automated for simplicity, reliability and speed.
Asset Timer
Reduce accidental use of expired assets and manage usage rights more
easily with Asset Timer.
Digital rights management with Asset Timer simplifies control of asset
usage. By assigning start and end dates to individual assets, administrators
ensure which assets can be viewed or downloaded by WebNative Suite users,
and which cannot—eliminating the need for complicated document check-in/check-out
systems. With Asset Timer, a flag can warn designers of impending expirations,
assets can be filtered by availability, and expired assets can be hidden,
flagged or watermarked. Asset Timer controls asset availability—right
down to the minute.
Increase productivity in design studios by providing quick access
to assets for fast, last minute changes.
This WebNative Suite plug-in adds new options to Apple’s contextual menu
to help users quickly locate files for last minute touch-ups. By simply
right-clicking on a file preview from a Web browser, new contextual menu
options enable WebNative Suite users to open or reveal the location of
any asset in that file on the server, without navigating through the volume.
Don’t waste time searching—find your assets fast with Contextual Menu.
Repurpose images in seconds, remotely or on-site, without the need
for client-side image-editing software or graphic design skills.
Custom Image Order is the tool that allows WebNative Suite users to modify
images by cropping, re-sizing, scaling, converting color profiles and
more. This tool automatically downloads a version of an existing high
resolution image from the WebNative Suite server to a user’s desktop for
modification, leaving the original file untouched. By using the shopping
basket, multiple images that require the same customizations can be repurposed
all at once, saving valuable time. Let your assets serve a new purpose
with Custom Image Order.
Create PDF documents that contain interactive links to original assets
on the WebNative Suite server.
PDF files with interactive links are created by simply exporting an InDesign
or QuarkXPress document to a preconfigured print queue. Once created,
the resulting PDF file can be distributed to WebNative Suite users worldwide,
and with a single click, the interactive links offer secure access to
the original assets for modifications as needed. With Interactive PDF,
asset access is a click away.
Save time searching for files that contain a common asset and track
how frequently an asset has been used throughout its life cycle.
The Linked Files Viewer offers a visual representation of all the files
in which an asset is currently being used, providing easy access for quick
edits or modifications. This feature makes tasks, such as changing a corporate
logo, quicker and more reliable. Linked Files Viewer tracks asset usage,
so you don’t have to.
Automate the image replacement process—whether FPO, high resolution,
or a mixture of the two—while preserving transparency features in InDesign
documents.
This feature offers a dependable way for off-site production users who
work primarily with FPO images to generate PDF documents in which special
effects that modify an image, such as transparency, have been preserved.
Add PDF Image Replacement to remote workflows for simple and efficient
image exchange.
Increase efficiency in the workflow with time-saving workflow automation.
Triggers and Actions boosts productivity with simple, automated management of repetitive, manual tasks. This versatile feature lets you initiate actions in the WebNative Suite database or file system to automate simple or complex workflows. Individual tasks like sending e-mail notification of approved assets, entering metadata into a file, or electronically archiving a completed job folder, are handled automatically by WebNative Suite - any time, day or night.
Expedite workflows and eliminate the waiting period for off-site
files with Uploader.
This desktop application allows designers, photographers and other off-site
contractors to upload deliverables to your WebNative Suite server without
granting them direct access to your site. Each Uploader can be configured
by an administrator to require metadata prior to upload, restrict file
placement to a specific location on your server, send automatic e-mail
notification of file receipt, and more. A secure and simple method of
transporting files, the Uploader delivers.
Generate video decks, agency reels and more—in-house—and eliminate unnecessary overhead.
Stop outsourcing simple projects like video reels, and start making them in-house with the Video Reel Generator. This flexible, easy-to-use feature comes standard with Video for WebNative Suite, and requires no additional digital asset software, training or expertise. Repurpose existing documents and videos to generate reels, and take greater control of the time and cost associated with outsourcing.
Enhance productivity and trigger workflow automation with XMP metadata.
WebNative Suite makes Adobe XMP metadata available to users worldwide
by automatically reading and enabling its editing for any Adobe file,
including InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Bridge—even for users
without access to the source files. Users can view set metadata in their
native applications, search it in the database, and view and set it directly
from a Web browser. Automatic metadata handling comes standard with WebNative
Suite.
