[TYPO3-dam] write meta data into files

[Uschi Renziehausen]

Hi folks,

yes, I think the checkbox is a useful thing, at least in the following 
scenario:

A poor editor slave is asked by it's lord to update the metadata of 
files a-i and and m-t. Now our poor editor slave does not yet have the 
files on his/her harddisk and at times perhaps not even the proper 
software to edit the metadata is installed on his/her computer. Apart 
from that it takes a lot more steps to download the files, edit the 
metadata on your machine and then replace the file.

I also see one more aspect we should take care of, and this is 
be-rights. Afaik currently you can only say a be-user (not even a group) 
may perform certain file operations. The user is then allowed to perform 
all of these actions on every file inside his filemounts, and writing 
meta data into files means editing files.

I think, what we need is some kind of Folder-/File access, preferably 
some kind of be_acl for the filetree.


Uschi
Dan Osipov wrote:
> I don't think it's hard - it looks like its the easiest part of the 
> task! Have a global setting to write/not write metadata back, and then 
> have an option to set/unset it for individual file during editing!
> 
> The part about writing it into the file seems a lot more complicated 
> then all of this configuration stuff
> 
> Dan Osipov
> Calkins Media
> http://danosipov.com/blog/
> 
> Martin Holtz wrote:
>> Hi Dan,
>>
>>> It doesn't hurt - the more flexible, the better.
>> i would think i hurts:)
>>
>> Thats why i asked...
>>
>>>> Then we would need a possiblity to show the differences etc.
>> don't we need such feature?
>>
>> To manage if the meta data was written or not - and what happens if
>> someone makes an reindex of whole data?
>>
>> If it looks easy to me, i will do it:)
>>
>> regards,
>> martin
>>