[TYPO3-dam] DAM - versioning

[ben van 't ende [netcreators]]

Ernesto Baschny [cron IT] wrote:
> ben van 't ende [netcreators] schrieb am 04.05.2006 12:47:
> 
>>> Does anyone know if the DAM extension supports versioning and workspaces?
>>>
>>> If this is not the case - could someone put an estimate on the effort it
>>> would take to implement this feature.
> 
>> What do you think should be possible with versioning and workspaces in relation
>> to DAM? Maybe you have noticed that the fileadmin is disabled when you are in a
>> Draft Workspace. This is done on purpose so files (assets) cannot be removed
>> accidentaly or on purpose. What does make sense is that there can be versions of
>> uploaded document or assets.
> 
> Most people that need a real documents/asset management need versioning
> and workflow functionality, like that we already have with "normal"
> TYPO3 4.0 records. If we had this, TYPO3 could be used as a tool to keep
> documents in environments where certain quality standards are enforced
> (ISO 9001, etc). And having this in a CMS framework is even cooler, as
> you could publish these documents in a very easy fashion (using
> filelinks or other DAM-specific FE-Plugins).
> 
>> Rupert did a hack for some old DAM version to make
>> that function with documents and a document management extension. The versioning
>> is used there however to have the possibility to view former versions of the
>> document in the frontend. I can imagine that this kind of functionality could
>> also be available for other assets to be able to roll back to a previous
>> version. If I am correct at this moment you can only overwrite a file now.
> 
> I think roll-back isn't the most important use-case here, but archiving
> and have a way to control who did what when (like in CVS). This is
> needed for documents too, not only for TYPO3 records.
> 
> I could not find the "document management extension", do you have any
> link to that?

Hi Ernesto,

Rupert is fixing that to make it compatible with 4.0. We needed an
adapted version of DAM for 3.8.1. I don't know if this can be fixed in
another way for 4.0. We will try to release it next week together with
some documentation. Don't want to publish it without that.

gRTz

ben
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