Using the Media library

The Media library holds the files your store uses. It sits under Content in the sidebar, and it is two libraries behind one menu item. The Media tab holds the images on your site. The Digital assets tab holds the files customers buy and download.

Open the Media library

1. From your Orbit dashboard, find Content in the sidebar.
2. Click Media library.
3. Pick the tab you need: Media or Digital assets.

The Media tab

Your store images live here: product photos, blog images, banners and anything the page builder uses. Files show as tiles. Click the list icon next to Sort to see one row per file, with these columns:

• Name: the name of the uploaded file, with its size under it.
• Type: the kind of file.
• Dimensions: the width and height of an image.
• Date added: when the file was uploaded.

A file's alt text and its References, the places it is used, are in its details. Click the file to see them.

Rename a file or add alt text

1. Click the file. The File details window opens.
2. Change File name to something you will recognise later.
3. Fill in Alt text with a short description of the picture.
4. Click Save changes.

Copy a link to a file or download it

1. Open the file from the Media library.
2. Click the copy icon next to File URL, or click Copy URL below the preview. You can then paste the link wherever you need it.
3. Click Download below the preview to save the file to your computer.

Check references, then delete

1. Open the file and read its References section. It names each place the file is used, such as one product and one product variant.
2. If nothing is using it, close the window and find the file in the list.
3. Click the trash icon beside the file, then click Delete File to confirm. This cannot be undone.

Warning: Deleting a file that is still in use removes it from the product, blog post or storefront section that shows it. Check References first.

The Digital assets tab

This tab is your store's downloadable file library. You upload a file once and attach it to one or more products.

1. On the Digital assets tab, click Upload assets.
2. Pick your file. A document shows a plain tile rather than a preview.
3. Click Add selected media. The file joins the library, newest first.

Above the table you can filter by All assets, Linked only or Unlinked only, and by file type. Each row has a menu with Download, Link to product and Delete. Once a file is attached to a product, the menu shows Unlink from product instead, plus Notify buyers.

Note: A file uploaded here starts Unlinked. Link to product does not attach it. To attach a file, open the product and use Pick from library.

Guides for this section

• Adding product images and alt text: how images reach a product, and what to write in the alt text.
• Attaching files to a digital product: picking a file from the library, and setting download limits and expiry.
• Adding licence keys to a digital product: the keys that go out with a downloadable file.