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• package: (cms) Code name of the package this asset belongs to.
• type_code: (better_user) Unique name for this asset.
• version: (0.1) Asset's version. This version will be incremented when new attributes are added, or other major changes have been made. Note: 0.1 and 0.10 are two different versions.
• name: (Better User) Name of the asset.
• description: (A Simple asset to retrieve more information about a user) Short description about this asset. What is it for?
• instantiable: (yes) Can we create this type of asset using Asset Map?
• allowed_access: (backend_user) What type of user can access this asset?
• parent_type: (user) The parent asset's type.
• requirements: (user, version 0.1 see example below) Do we have any requirements like parent asset must be a specific version.
• flash_menu_path: (Users) The location where this asset will appear in the Asset Map right click menu (create asset menu). This should be java_menu_path, the old Asset Map was flash and this attribute hasn't been changed since then. Why? Not telln'.

For this example, copy the following to asset.xml (note, each file in Matrix has a copyright header, they are not shown in this documentation).

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="../../asset.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>

<asset_info xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="../../asset.xsd">
        <package>cms</package>
        <type_code>better_user</type_code>
        <version>0.1</version>
        <name>Better User</name>
        <description>A Simple asset to retrieve more information about a user</description>
        <instantiable>yes</instantiable>
        <allowed_access>backend_user</allowed_access>
        <parent_type>user</parent_type>
        <requirements>
                <requirement type="asset">
                        <code>user</code>
                        <version>0.1</version>
                </requirement>
        </requirements>
        <flash_menu_path>Users</flash_menu_path>
</asset_info>