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LiquidQuest
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Mar 9, 2007, 9:11 AM

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AM2 is now out, and baby its so good (thank you interactivetools)!! but there's one feature that still falls behind, which is the upload images and attach document to article feature.

I believe that for your next upgrade, a Media Asset Management system should replace your current upload images or attach file to article feature.

this system can be accessed through three pages:
1) admin interface
2) created / modify article page
3) category (single page categories)

since your system is template based, this system can work the same way when inserting media code into the articles content. allow me to elaborate:

- each media type (jpg, doc, pdf, swf, fla... etc) has a template associated with it.
- when publishing content, AM will insert the different template coding for each type.
- allows users to have more than one media type embedded or attached to the same article page.

what do you think?
Marssin

ChetW
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Mar 10, 2007, 3:03 PM

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Hi LiquidQuest,

Thanks for the post!

I had been talking with Donna about this and I believe that she had come across a customer with the same request. They had also come up with a way to make it work aswell! Donna's not actually in the office today but what I'm going to do is forward this post to her, so when she is back in the office you'll receive an updated reply with details on how to get this all going. :)

In the meantime if you have any other questions please feel free to ask!
Cheers,
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LiquidQuest
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Mar 10, 2007, 7:46 PM

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that would be quite interesting to find out what they did to get it to work.

thanks Chet, I'll wait for Donna to enlighten me and everyone else on what to do Wink

Marssin

Donna
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Mar 12, 2007, 8:45 AM

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Hi Marssin,

It's not so much a separate system, but essentially, this is already a part of Article Manager. :)

Each field you create has it's own templatecell -- so you could set this up in one of two ways: Create a field for each different type of media you want to upload, then setup the appropriate templatecell for it... or use a series of templateIf's to tell it what to do with a certain extension.

Take a look at the embeddedMedia template to start with (found in the templates/common folder) -- this should give you a basic idea of how it works, and how you can use different templateIf's to do different things. To set it up based on a different file extension, you'd have something like this:


<a href="$file.webUrl$">Download PDF</a>


Or for something a little more complicated...


<object width="550" height="400">
<param name="movie" value="$file.webUrl$">
<embed src="$file.webUrl$" width="550" height="400">
</embed>
</object>


Note that you'll need to add each extension to the allowed extensions list in General Settings.

This is a fairly high level overview, a few tweaks will be required to make everything work exactly the way you want. Let me know if that's what you're looking for, and how you'd like to set it up and we can go into further detail. :)

Donna

LiquidQuest
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Mar 12, 2007, 9:24 AM

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Hi Donna,
i looked at embeddedMedia.html in-depth after reading what you said, and i got it to work for SWF files, but not the way i wanted it to work because i don't want to have a predefined measurement for the flash width and height.

Is perl able to find out the SWF's width and height just as it does with images? similar to the following so that i can have more control:

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<div style="float:$file.align$; padding-right:10px; padding-left:10px; padding-bottom:10px;">
<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0" width="300" height="250">
<param name="movie" value="$file.webUrl$" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<embed src="$file.webUrl$" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="$file.width$" height="$file.height$"></embed>
</object></div>

Marssin

Donna
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Mar 12, 2007, 10:57 AM

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Hi there,

That would be the one thing that Artman can't automatically pick up. I think the best bet there would be to use the caption field. So, what you could do is...

Code

<!-- templateIf : $file.extension$ eq "swf" -->  
<div style="float:$file.align$; padding-right:10px; padding-left:10px; padding-bottom:10px;">  
<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0" $file.caption$>  
<param name="movie" value="$file.webUrl$" />  
<param name="quality" value="high" />  
<embed src="$file.webUrl$" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" $file.caption$></embed>  
</object></div>  
<!-- /templateIf -->

...and make sure that the caption was set to

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width="300" height="250"

..or whatever the width & height was. Would that work for you?

Donna

LiquidQuest
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Mar 12, 2007, 5:03 PM

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woooow, sneaky but works Wink

thanks Donna!
Marssin

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