Update-able and Reusable assets similar to Content Collector tool from Indesign in Affinity Publisher 2 ~ Possible?

[Cogent30]

Dear Affinity Communities,

As per the above I am curious whether AP2 is able to "Collect" re-usable assets similar to Indesign's Content Collector or Links (not to be confused with links as in media links)? By "re-usable" I am referring to content that can be re-used, but also update-able via parameters that can be set to overridde-able ~ eg. text inputs, or colour, or transformation changes. 

...Or is that simply not possible as we speak at this point?

Many sincere thanks!

CG30. 

[firstdefence]

Assets are static, once you drag an object to the asset panel its kind of fixed. in order to edit colours, add or remove parts etc you would need to drag the asset out change the colour and drag it back as a new asset. 

what you are talking about are symbols, these are part of Affinity Designer and can be edited, so you edit one and the symbol will change in the symbols panel.

You can have a symbol as an asset so that it is document transferable, but it will not be connected to the same symbol in other documents, it becomes distinct.

An asset can be a part of a symbol but editing that asset will not update the asset stored in the asset panel, it will only update the symbol created using that asset.

Hope this makes sense.