Planned features
These features are not scheduled for the first stable release.
Media>List>Lightbox
Status: planning
The lightbox module you can save and share your selections with. Selections can be stored in different folders. Folders can be shared with other users.
This way an editor can search images for an article and can hand over this selection to another editor which will write the article. In the element browser the lightbox items are available.
Of course a user can use that module to save and organize his selections for long use or just as notepad.
Media>File>FTP-Upload
Status: concept work done. Needs FTP applet.
This module provide an embedded FTP upload solution. This can be an FTP upload Java Applet or an embedded FTP client.
The advantage of this module is that it is independent of a limited PHP script running time which is set to 30 seconds on most servers. This make often problems to upload large files.
The module can be used in an popup window to make uploads incidently.
Media>File>Image processing
Status: planning
This is a small image processing module.
Features:
- visuall cropping with mouse clicks
- rescaling
- filtering: brightness, contrast, ...
Secure File Management
Status: planning
In a further development step the DAM should be able to store its original files outside the document root of the webserver. Often the files themselves contain sensible material which must be protected from accidental direct URI-call in the status bar of the browser.
Enhanced Image form element
Status: planning
This new form element allows to add images and other elements (caption, alt text, ...) dynamically. You can add for example a separate caption for each image and it's possible to fetch the caption content from the DAM.
Have a look at the faked screenshot for inspiration.
Features:
- comfortable display and handling of the images
- elements like caption and alt texts can be added to each image separately
- meta data from the DAM can be inserted
- each image can be added as copy or as reference
More features
Managing file versions
Update a file with a new one with changed content while archiving older versions of a file.
Provide file variants
Eg. Images in different file versions (JPEG, CMYK-TIFF, ...) are managed with the same meta data record.
Grouping of elements
Eg. Press release: 1 PDF, 1 RTF and 3 images
This can be implemented in two ways:
- a file entry that is also the parent for other files (files related to this one)
- a pure container that groups files
Non-File Assets
Assets don't have to be files. Which means to support eg. content elements to be managed by the DAM.
Format conversion
Convert file formats and rendering to requested destination formats (eg. DOC > HTML)
