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In the following subsection, you will go through a deep understanding of these subjects.

What is it?

A DAM is a location where binary resources are stored.

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A DAM could but should not have WXM properties: language, media, mediagroup, etc

One or more DAMs in an application

There is no rule or limit. An application can contain as much DAM objects as it needs.

• In some projects there could be several technical DAMs:

  • one containing the videos

  • one containing the images

  • …​

• In others there could be a big DAM with everything inside.

• In others there may be several functional DAMs:

  • one containing public documents

  • one containing private documents for marketing purposes

  • one containing private documents for management

  • …​

Basis of a DAM object

A DAM object in the engine is therefore a standard object with two elements mandatory:

• a damobject tag at the object configuration level

• a file property with attachment and having tags:

  • gallery_thumbnail because an instance is most of the time represented by its preview

  • gallery_multi_upload tag to enable mass import (assets waiting area)

• and full of other application properties…​

Assets waiting area

Place the gallery_multiupload tag on the file type property as an attachment to enable this feature.

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You will find more information in the assets waiting area section.

Annotation

The instances of a DAM must be annotated.

There are three complementary and non-exclusive approaches to this.

Complementary properties

For example a property representing the instance title, which will be an i18n property marked with the gallery_title label.

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These documents could be stored in childmultiplesLongDb to an object like damlicence.

Use of Thesaurus objects

DAM instances are always annotated with keywords, geographic locations, etc

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So it is possible to add to the DAM object one or more childMultipleLongDb to a Thesaurus.

Use of flat objects

DAM instances can also be annotated with closed or open but non-tree value lists.

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Likewise, it may be useful for the client to know that these instances of the DAM come from an order he placed with a reporter…​ this could be a child to a damorder object.

Prohibition

DAM objects must not have Wedia-specific properties.

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galleryelement should be seen as a workspace for WXM projects with its own internal business rules for WXM projects and not as a DAM object.

WXM/DAM

If there are DAM objects then a bridge is created between WXM and the DAM objects.

When the user imports the asset from a background a copy of the asset is made in the object galleryelement to be used as a project resource.

DAM workflow

DAM objects have their application workflow like any standard object.

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