How to Add Brand Asset Categories in Sharepoint
To add Brand Asset Categories in Sharepoint, follow these steps:
Create a Folder for the Brand Asset Category:
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Create a new folder.
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Tag the folder with the following tags:
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Required:
CIH_BCT_<CATEGORY TYPE>
— Tags the folder as a brand category of the specified type.
Available category types are:-
images
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logos
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colors
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text
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icons
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Optional:
CIH_BCN_<CATEGORY NAME>
— If present, this tag defines the category name; otherwise, the folder name is used as the category name.
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Place all the assets you want to use for this category inside the folder.
The folder name (or the value from theCIH_BCN_
tag) will become the asset category, and the assets within it will belong to that category.

Create a Folder for Brand Colors Categories:
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Create a new folder.
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Tag the folder with the following tags:
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Required:
CIH_BCT_colors
— Tags the folder as a brand category of type “colors”. -
Optional:
CIH_BCN_<CATEGORY NAME>
— If present, it’s used as the color category name; otherwise, the folder name is used.
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Inside this folder, add files with the extension
.cihubcolor
.
These files should contain objects following this structure:{
"id": "897428381201",
"name": "Sky Blue",
"colorDescription": "lorem ipsum",
"hexValue": "#87CEEB",
"rgbValue": {
"red": 135,
"green": 206,
"blue": 235
},
"pantone": "279 C",
"cmyk": {
"cyan": 44,
"magenta": 12,
"yellow": 0,
"black": 8
}
}

And this is how it’s going to look in the panel:
