I am a new Blocs user and I have a problem with the use of the asset manager. I need your help !
We are developing our first Blocs project. The project is saved on Dropbox and we are two users (i.e. two computers) to share this project and develop it. The problem is the asset manager is visibly not shared. When an user puts a new file on the asset manager to include it in the project, the other user doesn’t see it.
Are you linking to images in dropbox as though they were remote assets? I don’t think that would work. It’s probably an issue in this case, even with theoretically local assets, since you will each have different user paths.
Your best bet in an instance like this would be to remote host the images on a web server. Then as you update one project it should update the other as well.
In particular I use GoogleDrive where I save each project by folder (images, logo, mp3, psd etc) all the files I use in the current blocsapp project, this allows me to use the same project on two different computers without any problem, always when opening the project, it reads each active file without any failure.
things that I learned that in each computer the same typographies must be installed, the same bircs that are used, but with the files used in the project, there is no problem.
It’s just a save project, synchronize (in my case it’s a matter of seconds) and then use it on another computer if I require it this could be in (office and home). It works perfectly
Then I realized that when you import an asses blocs saves a copy of the asset in
i.e.Macintosh HD\Users*username*\Library\Application Support\Blocs 3\tempAssetStorage\ExternalDrives\HD\RDI_SSD\3. WebCoding\Projects\blocsprojecti\ASSETES.
I found this by right clicking the asset and open folder.
That’s basically what I suggested earlier regarding different user paths. I think it’s perfectly possible to share project files via Dropbox, however assets will need to be stored elsewhere and the easiest option would be the server itself, since the web urls would remain constant.
I don’t know why but it does not work … I have no “Library”. I would like to try another solution : google drive - but I have also an issue with hyperlinks - it seems that Blocs does not recognize the hyperlink. Is there a specific process?
Blocs does understand hyperlinks. It’s hard to understand your problem without seeing an example, but if you highlight a piece of text you will see the a blue pop up and you should click on the last option to create a link. This will place a blue border around your text.
Now go to the side panel and set the interaction as Navigate to URL and type in the destination.
If you were linking to an internal page you would choose Navigate to page and choose one of your pages instead.
NB If you just put the image assets on the server as I suggested a week ago you would be having far less difficulties here.
Thanks, I’ve found the Library!
But when I’m in blocs and click on “add assets” then the library does not appear.
Grrrrrrrrr
I just want my colleagues to see the pictures. It is very frustrating.
That’s obviously an incorrect URL with spaces in the name and variables after the png file type. It needs to be something like https://example.com/images/house.jpg
This has to be on the server. Not Dropbox. Store the files in a folder on the server with a name like images, so that everything is clear and easy to manage.