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

[Dan Osipov]

+1 based on testing!

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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