# Spaces and Workspaces ### About this export | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | **content_type** | lesson | | **platform** | contentstack-academy | | **source_url** | https://www.contentstack.com/academy/courses/contentstack-assets-foundations/spaces-and-workspaces | | **course_slug** | contentstack-assets-foundations | | **lesson_slug** | spaces-and-workspaces | | **markdown_file_url** | /academy/md/courses/contentstack-assets-foundations/spaces-and-workspaces.md | | **generated_at** | 2026-05-28T12:30:00.525Z | > Part of **[Contentstack Assets Foundations](https://www.contentstack.com/academy/courses/contentstack-assets-foundations)** on Contentstack Academy. **Academy MD v3** — structured for retrieval; no quiz or assessment keys. #### Video details #### At a glance - **Title:** Spaces & Workspaces - **Duration:** 4m 45s - **Media link:** https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/1Zxnp8xG - **Publish date (unix):** 1778505389 #### Streaming renditions - application/vnd.apple.mpegurl - audio/mp4 · AAC Audio · 113689 kbps - video/mp4 · 180p · 180p · 163413 kbps - video/mp4 · 270p · 270p · 199282 kbps - video/mp4 · 360p · 360p · 220575 kbps - video/mp4 · 406p · 406p · 241229 kbps - video/mp4 · 540p · 540p · 306136 kbps - video/mp4 · 720p · 720p · 416184 kbps - video/mp4 · 1080p · 1080p · 782292 kbps #### Timed text tracks (delivery) - **thumbnails:** `https://cdn.jwplayer.com/strips/1Zxnp8xG-120.vtt` #### Video transcript The new Contentstack Assets isn't just a facelift. It's a complete reimagining of how digital media lives inside your stack. We've moved beyond static folders and the one-size-fits-all metadata approach and built a system that treats your assets like data – intelligent, versioned, and governed. It bridges the gap between your creative library and your production code, so the right asset reaches the right audience without manual rework. Every asset needs a home, but in a growing organization, home can get crowded fast. Imagine you work for a company with multiple brands. You probably don't want the assets for brand A mixed in with brand B. There's different teams, different guidelines, different permissions. That's exactly why we use spaces and workspaces. A space is your highest-level container. Think of it like a dedicated building for a brand. Inside that building live the people, the permissions, the settings, and the assets for that brand – completely separate from everything else. So, if your organization has multiple brands, each one gets its own space. Clean boundaries, clear governance, no accidental overlap. Here's how you create one. First, go over to the App Switcher and choose Assets. Then, click the New button and choose Space. Give it a clear name, something like Brand Marketing. Add a short description and click Create. And that's it. Your space is live. It's a fresh environment with its own rules and its own users. And importantly, spaces aren't rigid boxes. They're flexible containers. You can link a space to any stack in your CMS, depending upon how your organization is structured. Inside every space is something called a workspace. Every space starts with one by default called Main. That's your production-ready source of truth. But let's say your marketing team is launching a seasonal campaign. They need to update metadata for hundreds of assets just for that campaign. You don't want all of those changes affecting your main library permanently. That's where workspaces come in. A workspace is basically a parallel environment, a fork of your main library. It lets you experiment safely without touching production assets. They're also great for development workflows. If your developers are working in a development branch in your CMS, you can create a matching workspace for assets. That way, content and assets stay perfectly aligned while teams test changes. When the campaign ends or development wraps, you can simply remove the workspace. No mess left behind. Let's spin up a new workspace. So inside the space, go to Space Settings and choose Workspaces. Then you can click New Workspace. Give it a unique ID and name. For example, I'll call this Spring Launch 2026. Choose your source workspace, which is usually going to be Main, and click Create. To switch environments, just use the Workspace drop-down on the Assets listing page. Now you're working in isolation. Anything you change here stays here. Workspaces are meant to be flexible and disposable. Inside Space Settings, you can rename a workspace, fork them again for regional teams, and configure which languages are enabled for each workspace. And when a workspace is no longer needed, go to Space Settings, Workspace, and click the three dots and choose Delete. A quick warning, deletion is permanent. It removes the assets in history for that workspace. Same rule applies for spaces themselves. When you delete a space, you delete the entire library. Don't worry, we will ask you to type DELETE in all caps just to confirm you really mean it. #### Key takeaways - Connect **Spaces and Workspaces** back to your stack configuration before moving to the next module. - Capture one concrete artifact (screenshot, Postman call, or code snippet) that proves the step works in your environment. - Re-read the delivery versus management boundary for anything you changed in the entry model. ## Supplement for indexing ### Content summary Spaces and Workspaces. Spaces and Workspaces in Contentstack Assets Foundations (contentstack-assets-foundations). ### Retrieval tags - Spaces - and - Workspaces - contentstack-assets-foundations - lesson 01 - Spaces and Workspaces - contentstack-assets-foundations lesson ### Indexing notes Index this lesson as a primary chunk tagged with lesson_id "01" and topics: [Spaces, and, Workspaces]. Parent course slug: contentstack-assets-foundations. Use asset_references URLs as thumbnail hints in search results when present. Never surface LMS quiz content or assessment answers from this file. ### Asset references | Label | URL | | --- | --- | | Video thumbnail: Spaces and Workspaces | `https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/1Zxnp8xG/poster.jpg?width=720` | ### External links | Label | URL | | --- | --- | | Contentstack Academy home | `https://www.contentstack.com/academy/` | | Training instance setup | `https://www.contentstack.com/academy/training-instance` | | Academy playground (GitHub) | `https://github.com/contentstack/contentstack-academy-playground` | | Contentstack documentation | `https://www.contentstack.com/docs/` |