XMS Configuration Guide
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Propagating Assets to Other Xmedia Servers
Removing propagated assets from a recipient server
The propagation server is granted jurisdiction over managing the assets that are
propagated onto the recipient servers. As such, the propagation server’s administrator
should be the one to determine which assets are present in the recipient server’s
categories.
Although the recipient server’s applications (Xplorer and Xstudio) allow you to add, edit, and
delete assets from categories configured as recipient categories, this practice is strongly
discouraged. These actions may cause unintentional name conflicts, inconsistent
versioning of assets, or render some assets (i.e. templates) incomplete by breaking links
between assets.
Therefore, we strongly recommend that if you want to delete assets from a recipient
server’s category that you proceed by deleting the asset, or the asset category, from the
propagation server rather than from the recipient server.
To remove an asset or an asset category from both the propagation and recipient
servers:
1.
Open either Xplorer or Xstudio:
Start>Programs>VertigoXmedia>Xplorer
Or,
Start>Programs>VertigoXmedia>Xstudio
2.
Ensure that the application is connected to the Xmedia Server that is designated as the
propagation server (
T
OOLS
>S
ETTINGS
>XMS
OR
S
ERVERS
)
3.
In the application’s Asset Browser, navigate to the category that is to be deleted, or
contains the asset(s) to be deleted.
4.
Right-click on the asset or the category and select the
D
ELETE
command from the
context menu.
The
C
ONFIRM
D
ELETE
dialog box appears.
5.
Click
Y
ES
to confirm that you want to delete the asset or category.
6.
The asset and/or its category is immediately deleted from the propagation server. If you
chose to delete the category from the propagation server, the category will still exist on
the recipient servers, but it is an empty category since all of the assets within it have
been deleted.