Adding your content to Collage is the first step toward everything the platform offers. You can use the standard upload flow or simply drag and drop files and folders.
Upload an asset
- Log into your account — you'll arrive on your Dashboard.
- Click the New Asset button to enter the upload flow. You can also use the + New button in the left-hand navigation (it shows just + when the nav is collapsed) and select New Asset.
- Decide whether to use auto-tagging for this upload. If your plan includes AI auto-tagging, an Auto Tagging toggle appears. It's set to On automatically if your admin turned auto-tagging on in Account Settings, and you can switch it On or Off for this upload.
- Drag files and folders into the upload box, or click the box and choose File or Folder to pick items from your computer.
- Watch the progress bar as each file uploads — a checkmark appears as each completes. If a file fails, click Retry Upload on its row; Next stays unavailable until every file has uploaded or been removed. Stay on this page until uploading finishes — leaving it stops any uploads still in progress.
- Click Next. Uploaded files go to the Uploaded page. (If you uploaded a folder, Collage opens that folder instead — its files are already filed.)
- Under each asset's name, use Add Tag, Add Custom Field, or Add Collage — or select several (checkboxes, the top box to select all, or click and drag) and use the bulk action bar.
- Use Move to assign the files to the proper folders. Collage selections take effect once an asset is assigned to a folder and leaves the uncategorized area.
- Return to the Dashboard. Your new files appear in the Recently Added section.
Uploading requires a Manager or Admin role.
If you skip filing assets into folders
Assets you haven't filed into a folder stay on the Uploaded page — the same page Uncategorized Assets opens on your Folders list. It has two tabs: Uploaded, and Requested for files sent in through guest upload. Select items and use the floating bulk action bar to tag, add custom fields, or move them into folders, the same way you would anywhere else in Collage — see Acting on many assets at once with bulk actions. This page doesn't have the Display (view/sort/thumbnail-size) button that folder pages have.
Drag and drop files and folders
You can also drag content straight into the platform — a single file, multiple files, or an entire folder hierarchy — dropping onto the Dashboard or into an existing folder.
Drop into the Dashboard
- Dropping individual files onto the Dashboard uploads them as uncategorized assets. A small panel in the corner shows progress. When it's done, open the Uploaded page to tag the assets and assign them to folders — either from the You have N uncategorized assets banner on the Dashboard or from Uncategorized Assets in Folders.
- Dropping a folder (or folder hierarchy) uploads all the content and recreates the folder structure in your account. The top-level folder becomes a parent folder in Collage.
Drop into a folder
- Dropping files onto a folder page uploads them straight into that folder.
- Dropping a folder or hierarchy onto a folder page adds it as a subfolder and uploads all its content.
You can drop onto the Dashboard, the Folders page, or any folder page. Drag-and-drop uploads keep going while you move around Collage, but closing or refreshing your browser stops them. If a file fails, click Retry Upload in the panel.
If AI auto-tagging is toggled on in your Account Settings, applicable content is auto-tagged when you use drag and drop, too.