[TYPO3-dam] Hiding file types from DAM

[georg kuehnberger]

Francois Suter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> In the TSconfig, there's a property which goes like that:
>>
>> tx_dam.indexing.skipFileTypes = mxp
>>
>> I changed it in my config to
>>
>> tx_dam.indexing.skipFileTypes = mxp,log
> 
> I would just like to go back to my original question, no matter whether 
> a FTP client was involved or not.
> 
> The point is that there's a configuration option which seemingly makes 
> it possible to avoid indexing certain files in the DAM. This is not the 
> behaviour I observed, so that begs the following questions:
> 
> - did I do something wrong in this configuration?
> - did I misunderstand what this configuration is for (e.g. it applies 
> only in some special circumstances)?
> - does this configuration simply not work, e.g. because it is buggy or 
> because it was planned but not implemented?
> 
> Cheers

Francois,
So I just went ahead and tested your case over here (with the DAM SVN 
Version) and the functionality works as described;
The important part is, that you have to configure the tsconfig settings 
in the DAM Media Page;
so here is what I did:
- open Media page properties;
- added tx_dam.indexing.skipFileTypes = mxp,log  in the TSconfig
- created a new dir with files like
1.txt
2.jpg
3.log
ws_ftp.log

Called up:
Media > File > List (which automatically indexes non indexed records);
then in addition I re-indexed the the directory with Media > File > 
Indexing ....

Result:
1.txt
2.jpg
are indexed fine
3.log
ws_ftp.log
are not indexed and a yellow exclamation mark aside the file (in the 
List > File module) tells us: this file is not indexed;

Now in case the User (that is non-admin) is only configured to use the 
Media > List Module  (and not the others);
he will never see the ws_ftp.log files.


 > - did I do something wrong in this configuration?
yep, I guess you pur the tsconfig not into the MEDIA Page TSconfig,

 > - did I misunderstand what this configuration is for (e.g. it applies
 > only in some special circumstances)?
AFAIK NO;

 > - does this configuration simply not work, e.g. because it is buggy or
 > because it was planned but not implemented?
NO, it simply works as advertized.

A last one, as pointer:
from:
http://typo3.org/documentation/document-library/extension-manuals/dam/1.0.11/view/1/5/#id3502609
--snip--
"Please keep in mind Page TSconfig will be read from the DAM SysFolder 
only."
--snap--

please confirm my findings to we can close this thread,
hth, regards Georg