Review and Archive in 4.5.3

For MediaBin 4.5.3 I saw a demo that had Review links in the UI but can't seem to find anything about that in the manuals. Is this an out of the box feature? If not has anyone customized this feature and what was the effort?

I have similar questions about Archiving as well.

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msrinivas

This is not OOTB. Its part of a toolkit that one of the partners developed.

Check out http://www.rapid-soft.com/

HTH

Bill Klish

Interesting product. It looks as if they have customized the MediaBin web interface similar to how the TeamSite UI is customized by adding a Review and Collections menu. I don't see anything in the API or SDK documentation that identifies how to do that. Am I missing it somewhere?

msrinivas

This is not through the API. This uses a 3rd party workflow engine.

Having said that we have successfully implemented MediaBin with the TeamSite workflow engine doing the same job.

HTH

Bill Klish

Good to know, but you didn't address my "how do I add the menu question." I assume I would need to edit the ASP pages of the web client application, right?

msrinivas

Oops. Overlooked. Yeah that is a simple ASP/JS chage.

Bill Klish

Are those types of changes encourages/supported by Interwoven? On the TeamSite side of the world those are frowned upon.

msrinivas

You are at CSO's mercy Smiley Wink

CSO is your support.

tracyaskam

These kinds of modifications are not discouraged. Many clients have personally modified the ASP code to massage MediaBin into the look, feel and format each client prefers.
The key problem is upgrade! Custom changes like this do not move foward with the product releases and you will be required to implement the change on the next release. Granted, once you make the change, the concept is solid but the MB UI might/likely change with each release.
MB 5.0 is targeting new client applications so things will definately be diffferent in the future.
UI changes need to happen in the ASP code. We do recommend that you utilize the Web Services for as many custom implementations as possible. These move forward with the releases and will be backward compatible with MB 5.0. Join us at GearUp this year to learn more about MB Web Services!
Tracy

Bill Klish

I have dabbled a little bit with customizing mediabin, but I am very well versed on the TeamSite UI customization model. Are there any plans to adopt that architecture inside MediaBin?

To the point about web services, I was already considering adding a J2EE web app to a tomcat server to handle the customizations we would want, so we aren't stuck in a endless upgrade incompatibility and rework cycle.

Is this an approach to accomplish what you are suggesting?

suj

Is there a plan to take away the scriptmodel API for MB? We do not have much of UI customization but we have done an entire site using the script model API for mediabin. This site essentially provides a scaled down version of MediaBin UI with customized add/replace assets and search functionality.