[TYPO3-ect] DAM Category-Information

[Daniel Bruessler]

Hello Ron,

that's really nice from you. The right ones to talk to are in the
dam-list, e.g. Michiel Roos and Rene Fritz. news://typo3.projects.dam
please stay in contact.

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Hello DAM-list,

here's a proposal from Ron, he put this into the ECT-list. He has a good
idea for adding some information to the categories and wants to sponser it.

I added this to the wiki-page in the new-features-section.

http://wiki.typo3.org/index.php/Dam#DAM_Galleries

here the proposal:
http://wiki.typo3.org/index.php/Dam#Category-information_for_galleries

Cheers!
DanielB


> like many others I programed an extension for a photo album. ... like 
> many others mine is much better than all before - more flexible - more 
> multi functional, more speed, ... I display all photos from a DAM 
> Category in this gallery.
> I noticed a principle problem - missing feature that comes with DAM. 
> This feature is really basic and would help in lots of ways when dealing 
> with DAM.
> 
> There needs to be a way to link information to the files of only one 
> category. For e.g.:
> 1. A sorting within the files in one category. E.G.: A file is number 1 
> in category A and number 99 in category B
> 2. Additional info for files in one category. E.G.: A file might be 
> labeled best in category A and poor in category B. or the information 
> "latin name" is only used for the photos in the category "plants"
> 3. Content elements should also be associated to the files in one category.
> I think all three requests could be realized in the same way. An 
> additional field is created for all files in DAM. This stores the 
> information for that file within the different categories ... just like 
> a TS-Array:
> category_A {
>    sorting = 1
>    label = best
>    story_to_file = tt_content:9
> }
> category_B {
>    sorting = 99
>    label = poor
>    latin_name = testus testicus
> }
> There just needs to be a simple and intuitive way to generate this 
> information-Array.
> 
> Such functionality would help in lots of ways. For. e.g.
> - a photo gallery could be sorted properly and contain additional 
> informations.
> - Files could be rated in different download lists differently.
> - Different content for further description can be shown for the same 
> video in different context (notes of the actors in a list of the movies 
> an actor played in; notes of the director in a list of movies from one 
> director);
> - The photos of one category are displayed as a text-book with text and 
> picture and a navigation between the pages;
> ... different front-end extensions will need this category information 
> within DAM
> 
> I hope I could motivate someone to join in this project. I'm happy to 
> give some financial sponsoring to let this project grow. Just get in 
> contact.
> 
> with kind regards
> 
> Ron