[TYPO3-dam] DAM META on normal pages?

[René Fritz]

Hi

To store DAM records on normal pages does not make sense. However DAM records 
have to be stored in a SysFolder like other special records in TYPO3 too.

Currently only one Media folder is possible, but in principle it can be 
changed without much hassle to define which Media folder to use. 

Anyway, that does not mean that a user can work with multiple Media folders, 
it will be possible to use only one Media folder at a time.
Maybe the user could switch Media folders if he has access to 2 or more 
folders.

But it is unclear which side effects this will have. For example a user can 
see media items in a content element he doesn't have access to, because it's 
stored in a different Media folder. Maybe operations are possible there. 
Should the user be allowed to edit meta data of this media item, or not?

René

On Wednesday 07 March 2007 21:52:33 Troels Kjær Rasmussen wrote:
> Is there a specific reason, why TX_DAM records have to be stored in
> media folder?
> IMO the ability to store TX_DAM records on normal pages would make the
> system far more versatile in regards to access restrictions,
> import/export a.s.o.
>
> I modified TCA to allowOnNormalPages and this appears to work fine on
> the pure glimpse of things, but I don´t have the specific knowledge
> about the DAM to know which underlying DAM functionalities this would
> affect and disrupt?


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