Reformat pictures to suit your needs. Save time with a one-click custom download. Kontainer is on a mission to eliminate messy duplicates. No more looking for “version 36”, “low_res&...
DAM
A Guide to Smart Folders
Premium+ or Add-on Feature Save time and effort with auto-maintained smart folders (i.e., asset selections). Smart folders are dynamic and instantly add new assets as they are tagged. If something cha...
AI functions for DAM
Premium+ or Addon Features Kontainer DAM offers several AI in-house AI tools developed to manage simple tasks and get quicker results. As always, the tools are easy to set up, manage and use. The curr...
Access Meta Data on Files
Meta data describes different kinds of information about a file’s properties. Usually, all files have some kind of meta data, such as the document’s author or photographer’s name. Some examp...
Add a Brand Section
Personalize the user experience of your Kontainer by adding information such as contact details, social media links, and a brand message. The brand section is a useful place to welcome users, reduce f...
Adding Spacers in Your Folder Structure
Spacers are a simple but effective way to organize your folder structure in Kontainer DAM. They can help you separate categories, add more breathing room, and make your folders more visually clear. Ad...
Album Folders
Album folders are a convenient way to create redirects to original files in your Kontainer without creating duplicates of the original files. That means you can create selections of files across diffe...
An Introduction to Folders
In the following, we will look at the basics of folders in Kontainer. Create folders Create new folders by clicking on the New Folder icon in the top right. Choose, which folder type the new folder sh...
Basic Tags vs. Custom Fields
You can enrich your data with simple tags and keywords and/or by using custom fields, which are advanced filters and bespoke categories of tags. To avoid misunderstandings let us have a closer look at...
Change File View
In each folder, you can change the way the files in it are displayed. This will affect your Kontainer locally – for your view only. In the upper right corner, there are three icons indicating th...
Change Folder View
You have plenty of possibilities to customize your Kontainer in accordance with your company’s look and feel. An easy and impactful way to really enhance the design quality of your Kontainer is ...
Choose Default View and Sort Order
You can personalize how files and folders are displayed in your Kontainer. Depending on your use case, you might be interested in a more technical or compact file view. Moreover, you can choose how th...
Comment on Files
Create approval workflows and communicate with your colleagues and other user groups of your Kontainer. For example, ask external agencies or the graphic department to make changes to a visual. Or if ...
Create custom URL
Create a custom URL for your Kontainer to integrate your DAM or DAM&PIM into your current online presence. Go through the quick step-by-step guide below: Settle on a subdomain First, you...
Custom folder design & landing pages
Create designs, guides and landing pages inside your folders to better introduce colleagues, partners, and customers to your content. Present an elegant and user-friendly platform customized to fit th...
Delete or Deactivate Users
Go to Access > Users Select the users that you either want to delete or deactivate. In the top menu, either hit delete or deactivate to confirm. Read more about how to create users and different us...
Duplicate management and detection
A great way to keep your Kontainer lean is by using the image Duplicate Manager and Detector. The Premium and Enterprise plans include this feature. To activate get in touch with Customer Success. Upl...
E-mail settings
Customizing System E-mails in Kontainer In Kontainer, you can customize the default e-mails sent for various activities. This includes adjusting subject lines, body text, and sender information to ali...
Edit File Data
Pro+ feature In Kontainer, you can enrich your files with attributes, filters, tags, etc. These Custom Fields are helpful for keeping a good structure in your files and quickly finding, grouping, and ...
Enable Download Terms
You might want users to agree to certain terms and conditions or usage information when they download assets from your Kontainer. This is especially relevant when using folders as public portals with ...
Enabling and Configuring Watermarks in Download Templates
To apply a watermark to your downloadable content, follow these steps: Navigate to:Ressources > Download options Create or edit a download template.Scroll to the bottom of the template settings and...
Figma Plugin Set-Up Guide
Setting Up and Using the Kontainer File Picker Plugin in Figma Kontainer provides a file picker plugin for the Figma design application, allowing you to browse and insert files directly from your Kont...
File data export templates
Set up File data export templates to automatically create Excel exports with file data and pre-defined file download links. Use these templates to meet different marketplaces’ requirements and forma...
Filtering With Basic Tags
All users of your Kontainer will have access to search and very basic filter functions. These are basically keywords that you can tag your files with. However, for much more advanced search, categoriz...
Get Notified for New Files and Comments
Receive notifications when new files are uploaded and changed in your Kontainer; and when new comments are made on a file as part of your approval workflow. Read more on commenting and approving here....
Headings and descriptive text for DAM tagging and PIM fields
| Screenshot from DAM Pro+ Feature Sections, instructions, examples and more make it easier for your users to navigate the data and information fields in your Kontainer. With the text feature, ...
Hiding the Folder Menu
All users can choose to manually expand or collapse the folder menu at any time. This allows for a cleaner or more tidy look: In the following, we will look at, how to set default views of expanded/co...
How To Use Kontainer With Templafy
Kontainer integrates with Templafy’s Office plugin so that you can pick images from Kontainer straight into your document, presentation or email. Check out this video above to see how e...
How to Use Kontainer With Canva.com
Kontainer’s Canva plugin is simple to install. Once set up, you drag and drop images, videos and more from Kontainer straight into your Canva design. Check out the video to see how easy the plug...
Intro Guide for New Admin Users
Welcome as an admin user in Kontainer. We are excited to have you join the platform. The system has many uses, yet it is intuitive and user-friendly. Everything should make sense; if not, do let us kn...
Kontainer & Office – Plugin Guide
Premium and Enterprise Feature NOTE: Looking for the Office 365 plugin? Go to the guide here. Install our Office plugin to add a Kontainer button in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Your images will be on...
Kontainer API Integration
The Kontainer API provides an easy integration of your existing software into the Kontainer platform. This software-to-software interface allows your applications to exchange data with Kontainer and c...
Kontainer plugins for Adobe
Pro+ Add-on Feature Extend the power of your Kontainer DAM in Adobe Photoshop and InDesign. The plugins are easily installed and will ensure smoother workflows for your designers. Feature highlights i...
Kontainer x Drupal – Plugin Guide
Premium+ Feature Install our plugin to add a Kontainer button in your Drupal CMS. Improve your Drupal experience with seamless media imports, efficient CDN integration, and customizable formatting tem...
Kontainer x Shopware – Integration Guide
Integrate your Kontainer DAM with Shopware to streamline product content management and ensure consistency across your e-commerce platform. Integration Overview Our Shopware integration facilitates th...
Language Settings
Making your users feel at home The Kontainer platform provides a list of preconfigured interface languages to ensure a user-friendly experience across localities. In this article, you’ll learn h...
Make a User Delegated Admin
Managing access can become time-consuming for larger organizations with many users across teams and locations. In this case, we offer the Delegated Admin option. A Delegated Admin is a Normal User wit...
Mount Webdav on Mac & Windows
Establish a WebDAV connection to access files in your Kontainer in the same way as from a local drive – i.e., either via Finder on Mac or File Explorer on Windows. For mounting WebDAV connection...
Move files in Kontainer
There are different ways to place an existing file in another folder of your Kontainer. Let’s have a look: Select a new folder Quickly move files around in your Kontainer by right-clicking on a sing...
Permissions
Setting up and managing access in Kontainer is simple. You can easily give, edit, and remove rights for user groups or individual users. MANAGING ACCESS Depending on user types and permissions,...
Photo Consent Guide
The flexible consent module is easy to use and works on three basic principles: Consent terms Usage rights Parties Watch the video guide above and read highlights below. Any image can have one or seve...
Rename a File
Note that you need minimum upload-rights to a folder, if you want to rename files. You can easily rename any file in your Kontainer. Simply right-click on a file and choose Rename. Type in the ...
Reset Password
For your own user Go to your user profile icon in the bottom left corner and click edit profile. Select set new password and either manually type in a new password or autogenerate a password. R...
Search Guide
The Kontainer search function offers a range of options for quickly retrieving files. Search Filters Search filters are based on data categories such as attributes, filters, tags, data, etc., t...
Set Time Expiration for Users
For all four user types, you can set an expiry date. Read more about the different user types here. Go to Access > Users and click on the user, that you want to edit. Go to Profile and find ...
Set User Permissions for Folders
You can give detailed access rights for all folders for groups or individual users. There are five permission levels: None View Download Upload Delete With Delete rights, a user can also create new f...
Set up Public Portals
Make portals that log users straight into specific folders or areas of your Kontainer. These are encrypted links you can share without any worries. The links users only see files and data you make ava...
Share Files and Folders
Share individual files, selections of files or entire folders – quickly and easily through Kontainer. In the following, we will look at the different ways of sharing assets directly from your Kontai...
Styling your Kontainer
Whether setting up your brand new Kontainer or giving it a facelift, this guide is for you. We keep adding to the system’s customization features so you can deliver the best user experience, mak...
Tagging, Filtering & Advanced Search
Customers use Kontainer to improve their image and file management; organize and share their assets. And importantly, they want internal and external users to self-serve, to search and find eas...
Upload Files and Folders
Intuitively upload files to your Kontainer. Here we will give a brief introduction to how to go about it. File picker Find the folder in that you want to upload files to. In the upper right cor...
Use Kontainer With Umbraco
Kontainer’s Umbraco plugin allows you to select images directly from the platform and import them into Umbraco. Follow the steps in the video above to see how it works, or read the instructions ...
User Groups
We would recommend that you think of your users in groups rather than individual users. This makes it a lot easier to administrate permissions and accesses. Use cases vary a lot, but here are some exa...
Create users
New users and user groups are created and managed by Admin users under the Access menu. Visit our Permissions guide for guidance on creating and managing users. To gain access to a Kontainer, please c...
User Maintenance Guide
As your list of users grows, people leave and come into new positions you can start to lose track. This guide helps you maintain your list of users and manage access to avoid unwanted use. We recommen...
User Registrations
You can allow new users to self-register from your login page. These users will be added to a Group (with a set of permissions) of your choice. Go to Settings > User registration and select enable ...
Using CDN Links
What are CDN Links? Use a content delivery network (CDN) link for sharing/implementing your images. There are a few benefits to using CDN links: Shorter load time More reliable/available More secure/r...
Video streaming guide
Enterprise- or Add-on Feature Stream videos straight from Kontainer to websites and webshops. Find out more and get started today. Book a meeting with customer success. Once the video streaming tool ...
View Information on Files
Here is how you easily can see all file information. Specifically, this information includes: Basic technical information about size, filetype, location, resolution, created date File data such as att...
Administrator guide
In Kontainer, an Administrator is a user type with full access. If you are a new Administrator or looking to brush up on your skills, Helpdesk is a great place to get started. See below our dedicated ...
DAM statistics
Find out who is logging into your Kontainer and what content is most popular. Track statistics Kontainer from the Access menu or find out how a specific file is faring. Standard statistics available i...
Discover AI Tagging
Pro+ feature Enrich your files with automatically generated keywords related to the image’s motif. Kontainer’s AI tool offers object recognition and renders tags based on the following parameters:...
Enable Terms and Conditions
Create a terms and conditions message that will appear when a new user logs in. This text can be any important notice, such as legal or ethical conditions that your company requires users to adhere to...
End-user guide
Click the link below to explore our standardized end-user guide for Kontainer DAM. Every client will use and style the Kontainer DAM to match their brand, identity and needs. Colors, structures, data ...
Establishing an SSO connection
You can set up users in Kontainer via SSO to create a secure and seamless experience for your internal users. We have a standard setup for Microsoft Entra ID, ADFS and Google. Get in touch for other s...
Kontainer & Office (M365 version) – Plugin Guide
Office 365 Add-in Manual Note: If the Office plugin is included in your package, it might still need activation. Get in touch with customer success if you need any assistance. Install our Office Add-i...
Hubspot plugin guide
Guide under construction. Please contact customer support for set-up.