Development Notes for OpenEdit DAM

Our developers have begun posting weekly updates regarding OpenEdit development on our developer website but I thought users of OpenEdit's open source Digital Asset Management might find the latest posts interesting since they apply directly to OpenEdit DAM:

This past week the OpenEdit team has added yet another way to help classify your digital assets.  We now have Related Products, whereby you can mark two assets as being related to each other.

We have increased security for downloading original assets through OpenEdit.

There is also a new feature which allows you to override certain aspects of a property for a particular view.  Previously, all settings for a product property were defined in configuration/productproperties.xml.  If you included that property in more than one view (such as the advanced search and the product details page), the label and all other setttings for the property would be identical in each of those views. 

With this override capability, you can change the label of a field, whether or not it is editable or required, and several other settings for each of the different views.  This will allow a property to be editable in one place, but not editable somewhere else.  Currently this must be accomplished by editing the view's XML by hand, but we intend to add these features to the data editor very soon.  To do this, just specify the settings in the view xml file, like this:

<property id="name" editable="true" required="true" html="false">Enter the Asset's Name</property>

This would override the default label for the 'name' property (the one defined in productproperties.xml) with "Enter the Asset's Name".  The properties which are now overridable are: 'text' (the label), 'editable', 'required', 'listid', 'listchild', and 'html'.

We have made a fix to our Cumulus integration code which will force OpenEdit to correctly rebuild the category tree if categories are removed in the Cumulus client.  Anyone who has upgraded their Cumulus code in the past week or so will want to update again to get this fix.

We have also improved permission checking on the new product details page to allow for more granular control over what links are available from that page.

These features and fixes will be available for our December 1 release.