Dam-installation

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FIRST draft of this extension.

Currently, the version 1.1 of the DAM extension is still under development. This version will bring a lot of new (and great) features and it may be useful to install it for some testing purposes or for using extension (such image galleries) that use the latest development version. Here is a little basic tutorial about how to install it.

Recently the DAM was uploaded into the TER so you can download as a normal extension. Some old DAM version are always available at René Fritz's place, the main DAM developer.

Media (DAM) (dam) (contact: tuurlijk)

INSTALLATION

Firstly, go to the typo3 backend of your website and log in with an admin account. Then go to the module : Tools > Ext manager. In drop down menu select the last option "Settings" and "enable extensions without reviewstart". Then select in the same drop menu, the option "Import extensions" and click on the buttom "Retrieve/Update" to update your local list extensions.

Search and import the DAM extension. Install it and follow the wizard. You will certainly have to import other extension like : (static_info_tables , div, lib)

DAM features can be improved with other extensions like :

• Media>Indexing (dam_index) (contact: tuurlijk) (very useful: massive file indexations)
• dam_catedit (very useful : add a category module for editing the DAM categories)
• dam_fileicons (optional : relook the icons, nice to have it, useful to have it)
• dam_tweaks (optional : relook icons and other stuff, nice to have it.)
• dam_cron (optional : launch indexation automatically)
• dam_info (optional : get info about how )
• cc_metaexif (optional : extract info from pictures)
• cc_metaexec (optional : extract info from pdf)
• ma_meta_audiovideo (ma_meta_audiovideo) (contact: elbrown) (optional : extract info from audio- and videofiles)
• cc_txtextexec (optional: extract info form pdf, doc, xls)
• cc_txtextphp (optional: extract info from txt, html)
• cc_langguess (optional: try to guess the language with perl script)
• cc_textcat (optional: try to guess the language with perl script)
• dam_demo_pi (for developers : give code's example of what can be done in the frontend)
• dam_demo (for developers : give code's example of what can be done in the backend)

INDEXING

Once you have everything installed, it's time to feed the index ("dam_index" must be installed). In fact, this process is very important, if you have already a TYPO3 system running. You can not use a media (images - movies - sounds ...), if the media is not indexed. This step has to be done once. For further uploaded files, the indexing process will be done automatically.

Go to Media > File > select a folder. You should have something like this : (if not make sure that dam_index is installed)

Select the menu upload. It should looks like :

There are 4 steps, with plenty of options. Leting them empty is suitable for most cases.

On the last step, you will see your file being indexed (with a progress bar). When fished, your file are now indexed and you can begin to work with them.

I hope this few lines and pictures will help. Don't forget it is beta software and you may be confronted with bugs. Please report them on the mailing list.