An asset type decides what extra details the register records for a kind of asset. When none of your types fits, create one: give it a name, add the fields it should record, then use it.

A type on its own captures nothing extra. Creating it gives you a name; the fields you add are what make it useful.

Two permissions, not one. Creating a type sits under asset management. Editing what it records happens on Page Templates, which has its own permission.

Step 1
Open the asset types
In the side menu, click Assets, then click Manage types. The panel lists your organisation's asset types.
Step 2
Create the type
Click New asset type, enter a name for the kind of asset it covers, then click Create.
Step 3
A type is only a name so far
A new type records nothing extra until it has fields. Click Edit fields to add them. This opens the type on Page Templates.
Step 4
Add a field
Page Templates opens the type in view mode, so click Edit first. A field lives inside a section, so add a section first if the type has none. Click Add Field, give the field a name, and set its Field Type. It has no default, and a field without one never appears.
Step 5
Save it
Click Save Changes.
Step 6
Use the new type
In Assets, click Add asset and choose your new type. Its field appears on the form.
Step 7
Check it saved
Fill in the field, click Create asset, then open the asset to check the value was saved.
Step 8
Two screens, one job
The types panel lists types, creates them and handles the whole-type actions. Page Templates is where a type's fields are edited. Edit fields links the two, so you don't need to know where Page Templates is.
Step 9
Types are organisation-wide
A type you create is available to everyone adding assets, and every asset already on that type shows the fields you add.
Step 10
Retiring a type
The types panel offers override, hide, revert, delete and show. Hiding a type stops it being chosen for new assets without touching the assets already recorded on it.