[TYPO3-dam] DAM - versioning

[Mauro Lorenzutti]

Hi Ben,

> 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


We are looking for file versioning in TYPO3 and it seams that you have 
already done it inside DAM. You said that you are going to release a 
"document management extension" but it was more than 1 year ago. What 
about this extension? Do you have any news?


Regards,
-- 
  Mauro Lorenzutti


e-mail:  mauro.lorenzutti at webformat.com

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