> ## Documentation Index
> This page is part of the Cloudinary Assets product. Fetch the complete documentation index for Cloudinary Assets at: https://cloudinary.com/documentation/llms-cloudinary-assets.txt?referrer=docpage and then use it to discover all relevant pages before exploring further.
> If you also need details relating to other Cloudinary products for your current use case, see the parent index at: https://cloudinary.com/documentation/llms.txt?referrer=docpage

# Assets user guides


The Cloudinary Assets product provides a single source of truth for storing and collaborating on all of your organization's rich media files, and offers a varied set of features to support your workflows. Using the Cloudinary Media Library, you can upload media assets with advanced AI capabilities such as automatic tagging, face detection and background removal applied, share assets with other Media Library users and external stakeholders, search for assets based on standard and custom filtering criteria, assign structured metadata values to your assets, and more.

The **Assets user guide** provides detailed information on how to use all of the Assets product’s digital asset management (DAM) features, including:

  

    
    
            
        
    Managing individual media assets
    
    Perform a variety of management operations on your assets, such as viewing and editing summary details and metadata, viewing or applying asset analysis, collaborating with other users and setting access control modes.          

    
    
            
        
    Uploading and storing assets
    
    Upload images, videos, and other files to your Media Library via drag-and-drop, file-system upload, or by selecting media files from a variety of remote sources.           

    
    
            
        
    Folders and collections
    
    Organize and share your assets at varying permission levels using folders and collections.           

    
    
            
        
    Media asset search
    
    
    Search for media assets in a variety of ways, including Global search, Advanced Search, Query Builder, or Visual Search.            

> **NOTE**:
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> * If you're a [root user](dam_admin_users_groups#root_user) or have admin-level access to the Assets product for your Cloudinary account, it may be your responsibility to define how Assets will be used in your organization.

>   * Enterprise customers with Roles and Permissions can also [create custom roles](dam_admin_role_management#manage_roles_with_granular_permissions) for more granular admin responsibilities.

>   * Cloudinary is gradually rolling out Roles and Permissions. See [Roles and Permissions vs. legacy](dam_admin_users_groups#roles_and_permissions_vs_legacy) to find out which permissions system your account uses and the differences between them.

> * For more information, see the [Assets administrator guide](dam_media_library_administration).