DAM
1.3. Users manual
1.3.1. Backend modules
The DAM consist of a main module 'Media' with submodules. The list of submodules can be varying depending of which additional DAM extensions are installed.
The main DAM modules are:
Media>File
This Module allows for a standard file view enhanced with functions for uploading files to the server, as well as the indexing submodule, which is used for creating meta data for batches or individual files.
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Media>List
This module is used for handling files through the meta data layer, which have already been indexed previously. Files can be searched for and filtered by categories or other meta data.
The media files can be found by filters. Such a filter rule can be: "Show all files of the category 'Press' which are text type files but not PDF". This can be done easily by clicking on the + = - icons in the navigation frame. The selection result can be saved for later use.
Features:
searching by rules
saved selections (rules) for later use
editing of meta data
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Special features: Own category trees can be supplied by extensions. If one needs more or custom categorizations than the standard categories, extensions can be employed to enable this. Custom category trees show up in the navigation frame below the standard category tree by default.
Media>List>List
This submodule gives a compact list view on the current selection
Media>List>Thumbnail
Similar to the Media>List>List submodule this module displays the same output with larger thumbnails.
Media>List>Selection
The current selection can be viewed and modified here.
Here you can see that rules are used to create a selection. From the selection you can remove single files.
Media>List>Process
A current selection can be batch processed with this module. This can be used to enrich already indexed files with new meta data.
Features:
batch processing of the current selection
overwrite meta data of your selected files
append meta data: eg. add a keyword or add a category to your files
Batch processing fields can be extended by own extension. Special features include automatic meta data extract (EXIF, IPTC ... XMP), text extraction and automatic detection of content language.
Media>Indexing
The indexing module is used to index a bunch of files or folders with subfolders (in contrary to the file module which will index single files after upload).
Features:
mass indexing of files and folder
apply rules while indexing (eg. assign category from folder name)
preset meta data before indexing
set preset meta data not to be overwritten while indexing
save index setup as preset
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Special feature: Indexing rules can be extended by custom extensions. For example file names could have a special format which makes it easy to categorize the files. This can be processed by a custom indexing rule to match the file name pattern to categories during the indexing process.
Media>Categories
This is a temporary module to provide global category management and will be integrated seamlessly into the other modules at a later time
Media>Info
This submodule serves as the interface of the DAM for standard content authors, using assets already indexed for content creation and delivery.
Currently this submodule provides the following materials:
Media>Info>References
The references submodule gives an overview of the used assets in the system. This feature depends on the experimental references functionality.
Media>Tools
Generally Functions for Administrators are placed here.
Media>Tools>File check
This module is experimental and gives an overview about the indexed and non-indexed files.
Media>Tools>Cron Job
This module is similar to the indexing module with the difference that the indexing setup can be saved to be used as a preset for a cron script. The cron script itself can be called periodically or triggered by some event to index new files automatically while operating in the background.