[TYPO3] Is DAM worth its use or is it dead?

[Francois Suter]

Hi,

> I used DAM in my last two projects and unless forced to, I will not  
> use
> it again. It only confuses the editor and so far, I have never seen an
> "normal" editor of a web page (I am not talking about magazines and
> such) use any meta information. He just orders his images and media
> files in a folder tree as he is used to and is happy. So in 98% of all
> cases I (personal opinion) do not see any real reason why I should use
> the DAM any more. The ususal file-module is easy and fast and as  
> long as
> you do not need any particular feature of DAM as Must-Have feature,
> leave it.

This is worth mentioning indeed. If you have a limited number of  
files, there's little reason to use the DAM. It adds a layer of  
complexity not just for editors but also for administrators. We do  
not install DAM by default for all our clients. The projects I  
mentioned are projects with several thousand files of various formats  
(lots of PDFs) and the DAM is really useful in this case to help the  
editors actually find files. Categories are also extremely useful for  
organising the files, be it for searching in the BE or displaying in  
the FE.

Cheers

François Suter

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