Manage collections

How to create and manage collections.

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Before you start
Before you start

To access any collections, ensure that the application has all the right accesses. Read more about managing Identity.

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Create a collection
Create a collection

To create a collection, follow these steps:

  1. Create a CollectionCreation object with:
    • the collection name
    • the parent collection if any
    • the collection description
  2. Call create_collection with the organization and project IDs.
    create_collection = CollectionCreation("my_collection", parent_path="", description="Collection description")

    collection = unity_cloud.assets.create_collection(create_collection, org_id, project_id)

Update a collection
Update a collection

To update a collection, follow these steps:

  1. Create a CollectionUpdate object with the new name and/or the new description.
  2. Call update_collection with the organization and project IDs, followed by the original name of the collection.
collection_update = CollectionUpdate(name="New name", description="new description")

unity_cloud.assets.update_collection(collection_update, org_id, project_id, original_collection_name)

Delete a collection
Delete a collection

To delete a collection, pass the organization and project IDs followed by the collection's name.

unity_cloud.assets.delete_collection(config.org_id, config.project_id, collection.name)

Get a collection
Get a collection

To get a collection, pass the organization and project IDs followed by the collection's name.

collection = unity_cloud.assets.get_collection(org_id, project_id, collection_name)

List all collections in a project
List all collections in a project

To list all collections in a project, follow these steps:

  1. Pass the organization and project IDs.
  2. (Optional) Add the parameter limit_to to limit the amount of returned results. Leave it untouched or set it to 0 to return everything.
  3. (Optional) Add the parameter skip to specify the number of collection to skip in the results. Use in combination with limit_to to page through results.
unity_cloud.assets.list_collections(org_id, project_id, limit_to=10, skip=0)

To link an asset to a collection, follow these steps:

  1. Pass the organization and project IDs containing the collection.
  2. Pass the name of the collection.
  3. Pass the IDs of the assets you want to link.

    unity_cloud.assets.link_assets_to_collection(
        org_id = "012345678912",
        project_id = "1234abcd-ab12-cd34-ef56-123456abcdef",
        collection_path = "your-collection-name",
        asset_ids = ["0123456789abcdefghijklmn", "1123456789abcdefghijklmn", "2123456789abcdefghijklmn"]
    )

To remove assets from a collection, follow these steps:

  1. Pass the organization and project IDs containing the collection.
  2. Pass the name of the collection.
  3. Pass the IDs of the assets you want to remove.

    unity_cloud.assets.unlink_assets_from_collection(
        org_id = "012345678912",
        project_id = "1234abcd-ab12-cd34-ef56-123456abcdef",
        collection_path = "your-collection-name",
        asset_ids = ["0123456789abcdefghijklmn", "1123456789abcdefghijklmn", "2123456789abcdefghijklmn"]
    )