Scott Goddard
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RE: Slashes.. Good point Bryson, another reason to avoid the hierarchy in fields.
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Digging up an old thread..
Have you have a chance to use MediaBox by Cantemo? It is apparently a cheaper version of their Portal system although I have not looked into the pricing. Do you feel this could compete with CatDV for budget conscious clients?
Trying to get a full demo shortly to look under the hood..
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Had a big test with this today. It is certainly a strange setup with Groups, Roles, Users. It feels like it is missing a permission to get the full flexibility.
We then started to test with the ‘locked fields’ and this is very flexible and useful. You can have one production group with all your catalogs and then have your admins able to edit locked fields.
For a read only user who you want to be able to edit one field such as a drop down action ‘request video’ you simply leave this unlocked. You can further limit the tabs so that they can only see certain options.
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Did some more testing on this and I can confirm that this field behaves completely differently to other fields when locked. Before I had some permission issues but I have re tested this with a better setup and it certainly is editable when locked. It’s a built in field ‘TCEVT’.
Thoroughly tested this by locking all fields that are possible to lock. All user and built in fields are locked. User has no permission to edit locked fields. To this user ALL fields appear ‘greyed out’ APART from built in Event Markers ‘TCEVT’. The user can edit these and even delete them and then publish the changes!
This field is behaving differently from all others when locked.
We need the user to be able to edit some fields but not this one so we can’t just turn off write access for the user.
Would someone be able to test this their end and confirm?
Rolf, can you have a look?
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Being able to apply your own UID system would be great. Definitely a feature request. Even if its just picking the next number from a starting sequence.
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I have not had a chance to demo Pegasus’s auto suggest fields. I presume it will make it’s way to the regular client eventually?
Using hierarchical based fields at the moment means that the value is actually stored as ‘Stamos/Matthew’ or ‘Asia/China’ as a ‘country’ field for example.
Unless I have missed something there is an issue when you want users to be able to query the country first as it will not begin to list this as the full value is Asia/China.
You can still find it but it’s not as intuitive as a regular ‘grouping’. Under regular grouping you will begin to type ‘C’ and immediately it will list all the C’s.
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From what I can gather this is not directly possible with the variables and regular expressions at present. It would most likely require some external CL scripting.
I am also looking for something similar in which the Worker can query a field and apply the next number in a sequence. I think this is similar to what you are trying to achieve.
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Pre entered values forming filenames… Essential for cat wrangling!
This is the kind of workflow I am currently working on. Using CatDV in the very first instance to handle the file import, copying files to their correct folders and renaming with the drop down fields. I am also starting with the more complex ‘regular expressions’.
Here are some of the more advanced things I am trying to do in terms of creating filenames out of field values (examples just for illustration):
User Field Value: ‘Video’ Worker variable takes first letter and turns it to lowercase = ‘v’
User Field Value: ‘John Smith’ Worker variable makes two words just the initials and lowercase = ‘js’
User Field Value: ‘Audio’ Worker variable makes this = ‘/audio’ (this being a new folder for the asset etc)So assets are tagged in the ‘import’ catalog from an external drive, user hits submit (true/false) field. Worker queries and copies file to new location with folders formed from some field values and filename made up of field values shortened and set to lowercase etc.
I guess I could get around the folder structure by using different Worker tasks with preset folder paths and triggered by queries. ie Worker looks for files tagged ‘Audio’ and ‘2013’ and we preset that task to copy the file to ~/Audio/2013. This would work but it’s not super elegant as you would need multiple tasks to cover all the variables.
Bryson, would you say what I am trying to do is possible just through variables and expressions? ie no CL?
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Thats similar to what we are doing on several projects too.
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Depends on how much you are paying him..
Set the worker to dev mode and test it with one image on it’s own in the watch folder. It could be an issue with the number of files causing the worker to fail. I have not tested anything near that number at once. If you know your setup is working with 1 file then try with a smaller batch of a 1000 etc.
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