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

Christopher Schnell typo3 at mda.ch
Tue Apr 15 09:11:06 CEST 2008


Francois Suter schrieb:
> 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.
Yeah, should have mentioned in what terms of "size" I was talking. The 
project, I was refering to has about 2'500 images and almost no other 
documents.

Regards,
Christopher.


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