Hi,
I’m having some difficulties determining the best way forward, as the Enhanced Connector appears to have a significant downside: assets must be uploaded to AEM manually.
The main challenge is that, in order to upload an asset, users need to navigate through the full folder structure, which is unfamiliar to most Workfront users. On top of that, the volume of assets being created is simply too high to handle through manual uploads, making this approach impractical. Ideally, we’d like to automate this process so that once an asset is approved, it is automatically mapped to a consistent folder (e.g., content/dam/workfront) without requiring manual navigation.
We’ve also explored the option of using linked folders, but this approach doesn’t align well with our project structure or data governance model. Our current project has two layers for both product and asset data, structured as follows:
- Product Code → Product data on task
- Asset Created → Asset data on task
- Asset Created → Asset data on task
- Product Code → Product data on task
- Asset Created → Asset data on task
- Asset Created → Asset data on task
- Asset Created → Asset data on task
To make linked folders work, we would either:
- Create a linked folder for every “asset created” task, which would be inefficient, or
- Add an additional task that contains the linked folder, but then lose the product data stored in the parent task both of which seem sub optimal.
Is there a way to configure the Enhanced Connector so that once an asset is approved, it can be automatically uploaded and consistently routed to the correct folder, rather than requiring users to manually choose the location?
Another consideration is whether I should instead use the Fusion integration with AEM to automatically push assets based on a trigger. My main concern with relying on Fusion is that metadata doesn’t sync automatically to the asset in AEM thus we would need to actively push it as per my understanding. This would also require setting up an additional flow to ensure that whenever metadata is updated in Workfront, those changes are reflected in AEM.
I’d really like to hear your thoughts on this. Has anyone else encountered this challenge, and if so, how did you solve it?
