Covers updates for: Cumulus 9.0 PRODUCT INFORMATION: What s New in Cumulus 9.0? Brand New Web Client, Cumulus Video Cloud, Database Optimizations, and more. High-impact additions and improvements available in Cumulus include: Brand New Web Client Cumulus Video Cloud Enhanced Collections for Better Collaboration Database Optimizations New features and capabilities available for Canto Cumulus are listed below.* For additional details, see the Read Me files for this release. Features Web Client New Way to Access Cumulus The new Web Client offers a brand new way to access Cumulus with a modern and easy-to-use interface. It is not just an update of the former web client but an intelligent context-sensitive service that brings users into the focus. It supports and guides the user while addressing modern business needs, web access from anywhere, state-ofthe-art UI/UX. Not Just an Update It is recommended that existing customers using the Cumulus Web Client 8.6 or older do a test run with the new web client first before updating. Since the new Web Client uses a different approach in some ways it is advisable to verify that all existing business processes can be handled flawlessly. The Web Client will be enhanced with future releases and it might make sense in some rare cases to wait with a transition from the old to the new Web Client. * Not all Cumulus systems will include all features listed in this document. Contact your Canto representative for details.
Managing Files Files are managed with a state-of-theart UI. The folllowing use cases are supported: Upload files Special "Your Uploads" page provided Edit file's metadata (including keywords and container assignment) Check metadata input by using validators Preview a file Download and convert files Select files Edit metadata of multiple files History of files Delete files Managing Containers (Categories) Containers reflect one of the new approaches of Web Client. Containers can be used to group files using a hierarchical structure. One container type is called categories. The following functions are available: Create a container Edit a container Download contents of a container Assign files to a container (via toolbox and via drag & drop) Remove files from a container Delete a container Search, Filter & Sort Finding files is made easy by: Global search Grouped results Filtering by field and custom string Adding filters Removing filters Sorting
Sharing, Basket & Collections Collections help to organize files and facilitate file sharing. The Collection feature of Web Client includes: "Your Collections" page Create a collection Add and remove files to/from a collection Download and convert a collection Share files Each user has a personal basket that serves as a clipboard to temporarily collect and store items, e.g. for organizing a meeting or preparing a presentation. Users can: Add and remove files to/from the basket Save the basket s content as a collection Download or clear the basket Cumulus Video Cloud Cumulus Video Cloud Cumulus Video Cloud extends the current video handling capabilities of tagging, searching, and cataloging in Cumulus and adds conversion and global streaming. For Cumulus Video Cloud there is no need for the customer to sign a contract with someone else. Everything is provided by Canto and seamlessly integrated into the Canto products. Cumulus Video Converter Cumulus Video Converter is a component of Cumulus Video Cloud that: Adds video conversion to the existing Cumulus capabilities Provides video downloads in various file formats, including flv, wmv, mp4, mp3, 3gp and more Cumulus Video Streaming Cumulus Video Streaming is a Component of Cumulus Video Cloud that: Adds CDN* based delivery of video files with device and bandwidth recognition. Provides a multi-device player for streaming video to any device any where Includes converter * CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a large distributed system of servers deployed in multiple data centers across the Internet and serves content to end-users with high availability and high performance.
Collaboration Personalized Collection Links Enhances the Send Collection Link function. Each recipient gets an individual link to the collection which allows Cumulus to: Control who accessed the collection at all Control who viewed or downloaded which asset Upload Collection Links Cumulus users may send upload links to any outside collaborator, photographer, videographer or freelancer to drag and drop files directly into Cumulus, without needing a Cumulus account. Upload Collection Links provide: Easy upload into Cumulus Reduced time for allocating files Control who sent what when External Users Create users on-the-fly with just an email address. An external user is created automatically each time a collection link is sent to an email address so far unknown to Cumulus. The purpose of such a user is to allow Cumulus to monitor the usage of the collection link. Initially, automatically created external users have no permissions at all, and the only thing Cumulus knows about them is their email address. Collection Management Enhanced Collection management offers: Have all information in one place See who accessed a web collection and when
Database Optimizations Performance Improvements 30% faster server performance during testing. Performance was sped up by: Enhanced indexing through segmented index and background indexing Optimization of the internal metadata structure (big performance boost especially for multi-user access) Enlarged super page size (allows much bigger data storage) Database rebuilding as a background task Enhanced Indexing The Heart of a Database of the enhanced indexing are: Catalog is still available while indexing (even upon rebuild) No server restart required Use cases that greatly benefit from indexing: adding type ahead in Sites for another field (which will build up the index for this field) all cataloging processes (adding and updating assets) multi-language environments where indexes for each languages are necessary Simplified And Improved RoboFlow Canto RoboFlow 9.0 Less is more The newly updated workflow management user interface improves system administrator s user experience. Further improvements include: Integrated into Web Server Console Easier workflow setup More flexibility Clear documentation Dynamic Views File Format Type Based View Sets Hide or show certain fields or entire separator-blocks based on one or more file format types. For example, hide vertical and horizontal pixel fields for audio files. Dynamic views can be configured for: Info View Asset Info Window Preview Window Category Info Window File Format Type Field A new field File Format Type provides a useful file format grouping for all files (e.g. Image, Document, Video, Audio, Presentation, Font ). These types are set by the appropriate filter while cataloging a file.
Cumulus Sites Multiple Uploads per Drag & Drop Taking advantage of recent advancements in browser technology, the drag and drop method is now supported and allows easy upload of multiple files. Master Assets only Filter Cumulus Sites can now be configured to show master assets only. According to customer requirements the Sites Configurator now offers such a filter option. Preview Cache by Default To improve performance previews are now cached by default. Continual Progress Extended Formulas The extended functions for formulas let the user: Access sub table fields; for example to display the latest download user or the sum of all previews of an asset Define and use variables to simplify formulas and make them much more readable and perform faster Define dependencies between formula fields to ensure that they are re-evaluated in a defined order Category Quick Search In addition to the established and popular QuickSearch function for records Category QuickSearch was added. It allows users to search for Category names or any other category metadata field. It is easy to use and offers quick access to saved queries and recent searches. (Multi-Lingual) Descriptions for String Lists Describe status information or the meaning of a label color to the user in more detail. The descriptive information is shown as a tooltip in Cumulus Client if available in the user s application language.
Versions: Full Screen Preview/Compare New functions of the Version History window enable the user to: See all the visual details on different versions Use the compare mode to find even hard to track changes Live Filtering The behavior of Live Filtering has been significantly changed in order to better comply with the additive permissions concept of Cumulus. As of now, the ViewItem permission must not be set if Live Filtering is to be employed to restrict a user's view of the content of a catalog. The ViewItem permission works just like a live filter that finds all items, and therefore would win against any other live filter which is set up to find a subset of all items. Also, the interworking between the OpenCatalog and ViewItem permissions and Live Filtering has been streamlined. For Live Filtering and ViewItem to be evaluated, OpenCatalog is no longer required within the same role. Improved User Comments UI in Cumulus Client The User Comment function now provides a cleaner user interface and improved usability with all comments in a list view. Support for the following file formats was added: Additional File Format Support Photoshop Layer Information Layer information from Adobe Photoshop files is now stored in a new subtable including layer name, layer thumbnail, layer text (if available) and smart object name (if available)