How can I make a public asset private?

Christian Gitter

May 24, 2020 16:08

I have some images hosted and I want to update the asset-type for all of them to be "private" instead of "upload", to make use of the privacy features. Unfortunately I can't find any info on that and I have searched for quite some time now ...

Those are the things I tried:

1) Management console: It just shows the type, but it's not possible to change the type there.

2) NodeJS SDK, using api.update("publicId", { type: "private" }) - does not work. Apparently it uses the type parameter here to query and not to update the field, which results in a 404 not found ...

3) NodeJS SDK, using api.update_resources_access_mode_by_ids('private', ["publicId"]) - Error: "Cannot update access_mode because this feature is not enabled."

Is this even possible with Cloudinary or do I have to re-upload all of those images?

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  Brian Luk

  June 10, 2020 21:21

  Hi Christian,

  You can change the `type` of the image by using the `rename` method, eg.

  uploader.rename(public_id, public_id, {type: "private", to_type: "upload"}, cb)

  Let me know if this works?

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  Jacob Rastad

  August 20, 2020 07:46

  Is there anyway to do this in the  web gui?

  We're using Cloudinary as a DAM where content creators upload images mainly via the web GUI.

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  Shirly Manor

  August 20, 2020 20:46

  Hi,

  You can set the access control in the media library as described here: https://cloudinary.com/documentation/dam_manage_individual_assets#setting_access_control_from_the_media_library

  Please note that this option is available to our custom plans. 

   

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