Asset management in Drupal: the Asset module

State of Drupal 2007 Survey running for 30+ days More than 1000 responses collected Problem areas:

− Determining what modules to use− Difficult to add media files

Determining the module(s) So many different options:

− module creates a new content type (image)− module adds a field to a content type (upload)− module adss a cck field (filefield)

Use one or more modules:− One module per media type (audio, image, embed)− One generic module (upload, filefield)

Difficult to add media files End-users

− Display assets as unified as possible− Display assets as user-friendly as possible

Editors− Import files on the server− Manage files already entered before− WYSIWYG − Create galleries

Developers

What is the asset module?

The asset module providesan intuitive method ofmanaging any type of file.

What is the asset module? Integrates with

− CCK− Views− Panels− TinyMCE− imagecache− lightbox− Jeroen Wijering's FLV Player− 1 Pixel Out audio player

What is the asset module? Asset module

− Asset bonus− Asset embed− Asset import− Asset panels− Asset youtube

Asset wizard Images

Asset wizard Audio

Asset wizard FLV

Plug and play Just the asset module

Plug and play Asset module + TinyMCE

Plug and play Asset module + CCK

Make yourself comfortable Asset bonus configuration

Make yourself comfortable Asset bonus configuration: 1pixelout

Asset galleries Galleries using Views

Asset galleries Galleries using Panels

Asset 2.0 Drupal 6 Better GUI Pop-up be gone! New types and formatters

− PDF− Google docs− presentations− ...

Asset 2.0

Presentation by

Wim Mostrey

wim@mostrey.behttp://mostrey.be

Thank you