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Clayman User Folder Default Clayman user folder is always created at the user home folder, ex. C:/Users/Des/Clayman or /home/des/Clayman. The user folder is holding data user creates such as categories or folders in the Collections view. User folder is a...

Package types To be written

Library To be written. #library

Custom plugin code from plugins.plugins_core import ClaymanPluginCore class LoadMe(ClaymanPluginCore): def init(self): super(LoadMe, self) self.module_name = "LoadMe" self.module_version = "1.0" self.pl...

Application Support To be written

Work with Tags Tags are an essential part of Clayman. Everything is a Tag. Even if you didint write any tags while importing an assets, it will be tagged with its type and name. Using simple taggins system, users are able to find stuff quick. There are n...

Splashscreens in Clayman Clayman has a powerfull splasscreen system. Users can fuly customize Clayman splashscreen. Splashes can be set adding more images to the Clayman User Folder in your OS home folder. Using 800pxx400px images yields a nice splash. ...

Rebuild Package If the contents of the package change in the filesystem, you will want to update the package contents data. Right clicking on the Selected item in the library view you can choose Rebuild Package action which will rebuild all the items found...

Package Context Plugins Clayman has a package context aware plugin system which is loaded from the user folders plugins folder. This offers users to write package aware plugins which are shown on the mouse right click package selection (single item selecti...

Metaviews The Metadata viewer and the Asset view are two very important parts of the Clayman UI. The Asset view will show you previews of the items in the package, and the Metadata view gives you acces to the package.json data. Work with View and Meta vie...

Invalid Packages Sometimes package can end up unreadable due to missing package.json or malformed data. On Clayman start, all packages are being checked and if error found the package is then moved to the Invalid packages folder in your Library. In the me...

Index General Asset Import guide: Clayman Interface Importing assets Add Any File Categories and Collections Metaviews Learn more about Packages: Create - Import a Package Delete a Package Import - Export Package Importing assets Work with Tags ...

Creating an Asset Package To Create a new package, while in the Desktop application, simply drop your files over the Clayman application or press the + icon in the toolbar. This will trigger the Import popup window to appear over Clayman. The most imp...

Import - Export Package Clayman has the ability to export a package as a zip file for further consuming, archiving, or sending to another library. Selecting an asset and Choosing the Export action will ask you for a save location where the Archived packag...

Environment Variables Clayman uses environment variables to automaticaly drive the Library or user data loading. Default Clayman User Folder is always created at the user home folder, ex. C:/Users/Des/Clayman or /home/des/Clayman. Setting CLAYMAN_USER_FO...

Edit Asset Package If you need to edit a package select a package and press Space key to open the Asset Editor. If you change the name of the package - it gets moved on the filesystem level! So be careful with renameing packages! You can add or remove ...

Delete a Package Package can be deleted by firstly selecting a package or multiple ones, and pressing Delete package on the Toolbar or mouse right-click > Delete assets. This operation will delete data on your hard disk. Learn more about Clayman...

Create - Import a Package Creating a package is very simple and straightforward process! Although simple, you will want to spend some time on it to enter the relevant information about the stuff youre about to import. Follow this short tutorial how to do ...

Clayman Layout Views When Clayman starts it loads a standard Window layout view. The Window layout view can be quickly changed with shortcut CTRL+1 to 6, which will show a predefined View layout. User can save custom Window layout in the View Menu, or ...

Categories and Collections The Collections holds your Tags, Categories and Saved searches data. Collections Work with Saved searches Learn more about Clayman! Clayman Interface | Importing assets | Work with Tags | Clayman User Folder Environment ...

Asset Thumbnail When importing and creating a Package, a thumbnail representing the package contents is needed to be set manualy by selecting the image in the square or setting a droped file as Thumbnail. Thumbnails will show correctly only when set to sq...

Add Any File Clayman supports any type of file to be ingested/imported into/as a package. Just drag & drop anything over the Clayman Desktop Application and your files are ready to be imported into the Library! Learn more about Clayman! Clayma...