The Desks structure allows you and other Bricolage users to share and exchange assets.

After you create and save a new asset, it resides on your Workspace by default. You can then check it in to a Desk to make it accessible to others in your company's community. Once a user from one Desk edits and approves the asset, he or she will move it to the next Desk and the process will repeat until the asset is ready to be published.

A Desk looks and operates a lot like your Workspace -- it's just a common space version. If a photograph media asset resides on the "Art Desk," as an example, any user who has access to the "Art Desk" will have access to the photograph, though only one at a time can edit it.

Asset Properties (on Desks)

Title
Click to preview the asset in another window (except for Templates).
Category
Where on the site an asset is published.
Cover Date
The date that will be posted with the asset. (this is not necessarily the publish date, but what appears to viewers to be the publish date).
Priority
Tells users how urgent the asset is.
Check Out
Brings the asset to your Workspace to be edited. When an asset is checked out, it is still listed on the most recent Desk and can be viewed there, but may not be checked out to another user until it is first checked back in to the Desk. If the asset is checked out to another use, this the name of the user who has the asset checked out will be displayed, rather than this link.
Check In
If you see this option, it means that you have checked the asset out from this Desk to your Workspace. To let another user access and edit the asset, you'll need to click this link to check the asset back in to the Desk. Double-click to check in thes asset. Or click once to check in the asset and then do something else with it, such as move it to another desk, publish it (if you have permision), shelve it (to completely remove it from workflow), or revert it (to revert all changes made since you checked it out).
Move
This select menu moves the asset to another Desk. This select menu is not available if the asset is checked out to another user.
Notes
View any editorial notes users have attached to the asset.
Edit
If you see this link, you currently have the asset checked out. Click to edit it.
View
Click to view the contents of an asset.
Notes
View any editorial notes have attached to the asset.
Clone
Create a duplicate of the story. Applies only to stories
Log
Lists what Desks the asset has been checked in to and displays the asset's event history.
Delete
Deletes the asset. Note: deleting an asset does not expire (remove) the asset from any of the destinations that it has been published to. Deleted assets can be reactivated by using the Include deleted option in the advanced search to find the asset, checking the Reactivate checkbox beside the asset, and selecting Checkout at the bottom of the search screen.
Publish
This link is present only on Desks designated as Publish Desks. To publish an asset, click this icon and select "Now" to immediate publish the document, or "Later" to schedule publication for a later time.
Deploy
This link is present only on Desks designated as Deploy Desks in Template workflows. To deploy an asset, click this icon.