[TYPO3-dam-devel] RFC #9819: DAM Usage Information Enhancements

[Dan Osipov]

Stan,

Thanks for a hefty patch!
I have some questions:

Under the usage tab, the page links to the FE page, but the content 
element links to edit the content element. That's not immediately clear. 
Should there be a view icon, or some other indication the page links to FE?

About your tt_news comment: Are there any changes needed to dam_ttnews?

This is probably unrelated to this patch, but are bugs I discovered 
during testing. Any ideas for these? Should I submit a bug report?
For the first 2, it seems that an image that is inserted through the RTE 
is rendered twice on the page...
For 3 and 4, when choosing image properties through the RTE, it shows 
the current image tab, but clicking any other tab causes the current 
image tab to disappear.

Everything else looks good!

Dan Osipov
Calkins Media
http://danosipov.com/blog/

Stanislas Rolland wrote:
> Hi DAM team,
> 
> This is an SVN patch request.
> 
> Type: Feature
> 
> Bugtracker references:
> http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=9819
> 
> Branches:
> trunk
> 
> Problem:
> DAM usage information is incomplete.
> 
> Solution:
> 
> 1. Tracking of media usage
> 
> Two new soft reference keys and associated soft reference parsers are
> added: media and mediatag. These soft reference keys are added in the
> TCA to the softref property of thoses fields that may contain references
> to media using img tags (RTE-enabled fields), references to dam-indexed
> files (generallly image fields), or that may contain <media> tags (plain
> text and RTE-enabled fields). These parsers generate references that are
> stored in table sys_refindex, thus keeping track of the records
> references to media records.
> 
> Parsers for typolink and typolink_tag are extended to store the
> reference to the media if the link if to a dam-indexed file.
> 
> If an extension like tt_news creates references to DAM media, it would
> suffice that it configures in TCA the softref property for any column
> that may contain references to media. Media usage by tt_news records
> updated in the BE would thus also be tracked.
> 
> 2. Rendering usage information
> 
> The presentation of media usage is enhanced by showing for each media
> and for all references:
> - the table containing the reference to the media,
> - the record id in the table,
> - the column or field in the record that is referring to the media,
> - the type of reference: link to file or to media, inserted file or
> media, or inserted file copy.
> 
> Information about inserted file copies is completed by combining
> information from the dam file tracking table and the TYPO3 reference
> index table.
> 
> Presentation of media usage is re-writtten to adopt the ways of other
> dam modules. It is also re-formatted on the show element window. Note
> that the info button will always open a new window, even in link or
> image browsers.
> 
> Note:
> This patch applies to current DAM trunk.
> It should work correctly with either TYPO3 4.2 or with SVN TYPO3core
> trunk (revision 4480), but not TYPO3 4.3-alpha1.
> 
> Regards,
> Stanislas
> 
> 
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