Unlike a conventional list within the Dashboard, you can only have one media smart list. You’ll find it under its own category below the List section of the Library. You can read more about lists in How do lists work?
Creating your Media Smart list
The media smart list is created by default when your Dashboard account is created.
Populating your Media Smart list
While an ordinary list can hold any type of item, the media smart list is exclusively for — you guessed it — media! Your media smart list is populated from the published media content in the Library > Media section of your Dashboard. If this is linked to your media tab in the app, this means your content will auto-populate in the app with just one push of the publish button!
Smart list filters
When viewing your smart list from the Library, you will see you can choose to order and display your content using filters. Display By will tell the smart list to either show media series first or bypass these and get right to your media items. Depending on which of these you choose you will have different options in your remaining filters.
Filter By is only available when selected in conjunction with Media Items and it will allow you to bypass the need to have your media items organized within a media series. Under Sort By with media series selected as your Display By option, you have the option to list things alphabetically or by creation date within the Dashboard.
If your Display By option is Media Items, you will have the additional option to order by date. Items without a date will just show up as oldest by default.
You also have the option to restrict the number of items that the smart list displays under Number of Items, with a maximum of 200.
My Media item is published, but I don’t see it
The media smart list will populate your media tab with published media items that are within a published media series. If you aren’t seeing your media items show up, just double-check they are moved into a published media series. It’s built this way to keep out any media items you might be using as pages. You can read more about that here.
Tip! If you don’t want to place any standalone media items in a series, you might want to think about creating a manual media tab using the Build Your Own tab.