Getting the names of the Assets present in the Assets panel

[Othmane]

Hi,

I need the names of the Assets present in my Assets panel so i tried to open the .Afassets file in an editor software but it doesn't works.
Is there a way to get those names please?

Thank you

[GarryP]

Click the ‘hamburger menu icon’ (top-right of the Assets Panel) and choose “Show as List” from the menu.

Note: The afassets files only work in the Affinity software.

Edited August 8, 2024 by GarryP
Added note.

[Othmane]

Thank you for your reply.

Pehraps i wasn't clear. What i want is the names of assets to put them in an Csv/txt.file.

What i can i do is the following but it will take time and it cause Af to lag:

- Click right on the asset

- Click on Rename

- Copy the name of the asset

- Paste it on the Csv/txt.file 

 

Is there a better solution?

 

Thank you

 

[GarryP]

Ah, so you want to be able to extract the names of the Assets from either:

• an afassets file, or;
• the Assets in a particular category within the application itself.

As far as I know there isn’t a way to do that.

[joe_l]

39 minutes ago, Othmane said:

Is there a better solution?

If you are on Windows you can give the application Capture2Text a try. Tested it right now: With this tool you can save the capture to a text file.

[carl123]

2 hours ago, Othmane said:

I need the names of the Assets present in my Assets panel

In Designer or Photo... (This is for Windows, I don't have a Scooby Doo how to do this on a mac)

Add all your assets to your document page (it does not have to be neat)
Go into the Export persona
Create Slices from all the layers shown there
Export all slices into an empty folder on your PC
If you have named your assets "correctly" the exported file name will be the asset name (see note below)
In Windows open a Command Prompt (CMD) and do a folder directory listing of the above folder and pipe it into a txt file
You can then open that txt file in any suitable application to get rid of the file extension (if unwanted) or to turn it into a CSV file

Note: If you had previously renamed your asset(s) in the asset panel you will have the old name exported as the slice name or a generic name of Slice1, Slice2 etc. You can rename these slice names to the correct asset name before exporting to files (or in the exported files, or in the Layers panel before going into the Export personal)

 

 

[Othmane]

15 hours ago, carl123 said:

In Designer or Photo... (This is for Windows, I don't have a Scooby Doo how to do this on a mac)

Add all your assets to your document page (it does not have to be neat)
Go into the Export persona
Create Slices from all the layers shown there
Export all slices into an empty folder on your PC
If you have named your assets "correctly" the exported file name will be the asset name (see note below)
In Windows open a Command Prompt (CMD) and do a folder directory listing of the above folder and pipe it into a txt file
You can then open that txt file in any suitable application to get rid of the file extension (if unwanted) or to turn it into a CSV file

Note: If you had previously renamed your asset(s) in the asset panel you will have the old name exported as the slice name or a generic name of Slice1, Slice2 etc. You can rename these slice names to the correct asset name before exporting to files (or in the exported files, or in the Layers panel before going into the Export personal)

 

 

It seems to works. 

Thank you very much and thank you all for your replies