[TYPO3-dam] Planning a new ext based on DAM

[Stefan]

Hi Georg,

maybe we can join forces, if decide to use dam_frontend. We can extend 
the extension for these features.

greetings

stefan


Georg Ringer schrieb:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I am planning a new extension for a customer and I guess I use DAM.
> A szenario is the following one:
> 
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> There are different categories and many different type of records belong 
> to one category: Text files, mp3s, videos, images, pdfs.
> 
> In FE a user can select a category (which is kind of a topic) and will 
> get all records grouped by the type. Every file can be downloaded.
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> 
> I looked at trunk version of TYPO3 and DAM and this looks already great 
> but I still got some questions:
> 
> - I think I use the record "Media type" to define the type of file. Is 
> this the best way? I didn't find a way to select the media type inside a 
> dam record. Am I missing something?
> 
> - I defined some media types like "Main Images", "Sub Image" but in the 
> tree (module list) I see just 2 times "Image" but not the records I 
> created.
> 
> - My experience with DAM is a bit limited so also a basic question: 
> Which extra extensions do I still need? Still the one for getting the 
> selection inside tt_content, mass indexing and so on?
> 
> Thanks for your help, really appreciated!
> Georg