What’s new in Cumulus 9 - Creative Group · 2014-07-21 · High-impact additions and improvements available in Cumulus include: •Banrd New Web enCitl • Cumulus Video Cloud •

PRODUCT INFORMATION:

What’s New in Cumulus 9.0?Brand New Web Client, Cumulus Video Cloud, Database Optimizations, and more.

Covers updates for:

Cumulus 9.0

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 Benefits

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-of-the-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.

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Managing Files

Files are managed with a state-of-the-art UI. The folllowing use cases are sup-ported:

• Upload files

• Special "Your Uploads" page provided

• Edit file's metadata (including key-words and container assignment)

• Check metadata input by using vali-dators

• 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 hier-archical 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

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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 col-lection

• Download and convert a collection

• Share files

Each user has a personal basket that serves as a clipboard to temporarily col-lect 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 collec-tion

• 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 con-tract with someone else. Everything is provided by Canto and seamlessly integrated into the Canto products.

Cumulus Video Converter

Cumulus Video Converter is a compo-nent 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 Compo-nent of Cumulus Video Cloud that:

• Adds CDN* based delivery of video files with device and bandwidth rec-ognition.

• 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 avail-ability and high performance.

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Collaboration

Personalized Collection Links

Enhances the Send Collection Link function. Each recipient gets an indi-vidual 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, photogra-pher, 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, automat-ically 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

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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

Benefits of the enhanced indexing are:

• Catalog is still available while index-ing (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 FieldA 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.

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Cumulus Sites

Multiple Uploads per Drag & Drop

Taking advantage of recent advance-ments 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 pop-ular 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.

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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.

Additional File Format Support

Support for the following file formats was added:

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)

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