To edit single content items, you can open the detail view by double-clicking on a content item in the content browser or by right-clicking and selecting Details. You can also select a content item and then select Edit at the top of the content browser or select the Details icon in the toolbar.

As soon as you open the detail view of an asset, you can click on edit in the top right to switch to edit mode. If you selected Edit and not Details to open this view, the opened content item is already in edit mode

1. Save
   Save your changes.
2. Cancel
   Cancel and discard your changes.
3. Add metadata layer
   Add new layers to this content item. Layers are schemas that inherit fields.
4. Layers
   These sections are called layers. You can expand and diminish the layers by clicking on the respective name (e.g., “Basic Information”).
5. Fields
   The fields of the layers save metadata values and can be edited in this view. There are multiple types of fields, for example, tagboxes, date, or number fields. If the field is a tagbox field, you can tag the list items of the connected list here.

You can use keyboard shortcuts when editing a single item.

Users can batch add, edit, and remove Layers, Virtual Items, Permissions, and Owners by:

• clicking on edit all in the toolbar (with nothing selected, with multiple items selected)
• right-clicking on content and selecting the edit menu item in the context menu
• clicking on the edit icon in the notifications
   

Batch Editor layout

The Batch Editor has the following layout:

1. The selected content items are displayed on the left. List view is the default, but you can change this (and the order) by selecting the Select sorting icon.
   
   
2. The editing functions are on the right. The number beside the layer indicates how many items opened in he batch editor have the layer assigned.
   
   

Edit behavior

Select a layer field value to activate edit mode. You can assign a layer, update layer and layer field values, change virtual item content, modify permissions, or transfer ownership for the selected content items.

If necessary, you can filter your selection in edit mode by selecting certain content items from the original selection (by holding down the Ctrl key). This is useful if you want to make changes to only certain content items.

Metadata

When you edit a layer field value, only the content items with that Layer applied will be updated.

Example: If you select 11 items and only 2 of them have the Basic information layer, only those 2 items will be displayed in the content browser while you are editing, and only those 2 items will be updated with any changes you make. To apply the Basic information layer and values to all of the items in your original selection, select Assign Layer to <number> content items.

When making changes, the number of content items to which the change is being applied is displayed on the relevant button:

You can select existing tags and open a preview, view details, or add the tag to the metadata form on the right by selecting the corresponding icon. When you add the tag to the form, you can then select to add, overwrite, or remove it. For more information, see Field Specialities.
 

Permissions

To add permission sets, select Add. Check the permission sets you would like to add and select OK. Select Save.

To delete permission sets, select Remove for the relevant permission sets.

To apply a permission set to all selected items, select Check all.

You can undo your changes f you just added or deleted a permission without saving the changes. Select Restore.
 

Owner

To transfer the owner, select Transfer and search for another owner. Select the new owner from the dropdown list and select Save.

The icons triggering different behaviors are shown next to the Layer, Permission Set, or Owner:

Icon	Mode	Behavior
	Restore	Undo your edits.
	Remove	Clear individual filter values, such as clear filters for tag values.
	Save items	The number of content items affected in this operation.
	Check all	Apply permission sets to all items in my selection.

Copy metadata

When updating multiple items with the same metadata values in Batch Editor, you have the option to copy an existing metadata value from a content item into the editing form. Reusing existing metadata values helps maintain accuracy and consistency. 

To do so, right-click a metadata value (in the left pane) and select Add to editor. The metadata value is copied into the corresponding field in the batch editing form (right pane). Make the required edits and save the changes.

In the example below, the date value is only set for one of the selected content items and is missing for the others. Right-click on the Date field value and select Add to editor.
 

The date is added to the Date Field for all of the selected content items in the editor. 
 

The Save button is updated to display the number of items selected (in this case, 6). Select Save to save the changes.