Razuna 1.4.5 is coming! We are actually at full throttle here to finish the last touches and will release Razuna 1.4.5 very shortly. Thought, this is another point release and given our history of not holding back new features, we are excited to include the following awesome new or improved features:
Widgets – Share or embed your folders / collections with ease
We get many praises for Razuna, as a matter of fact, many have switched from other systems to manage their assets with Razuna. People love the way we manage assets for them. But people not only want to manage assets within Razuna, they also want to share and collaborate on their assets. For that, you can either setup a user in Razuna and give permission to folders. This would mean they would access Razuna. Another option is to make use of the “shared folder/collection” feature. With a share you can publish your assets outside of Razuna.
As of Razuna 1.4.5 we are introducing Widgets. Widgets can be setup for every folder or collection, you can even create as many widgets as you want for a given folder/collection, since each widget has different settings. Foremost, you can arrange your assets to be shown in the thumbnail grid or as a slideshow. Also, you will have a preview function for each asset and can download each one individually.
There are many good uses for widgets, as a example you can include a widget into your website, blog, create a photo archive and so forth.
Browse subfolders
Coming in line with the release of Widgets, we also enabled browsing trough subfolders in the general folder view, the shared folders and of course within a Widget. Like this, especially in a shared folder/collection or widget, you can share any folder and your users will be able to drill down into all available subfolders.
Add additional versions of an asset
As more and more organizations start to move to Razuna, the need for a “unified view” of an asset was raised. Say, you have different versions of your assets already deployed, on YouTube, Vimeo, Flickr, and Soundcloud or simply want to upload each version of your already converted formats to Razuna. Previously, each upload created a new “asset record”.
With the new “Additional Versions” functionality you can simply point to your existing asset on the net or upload your versions. Doing so, will give you a combined view, of your original asset, any converted formats and and your own versions.
Small Re-Design, Lighter Interface
We have done some small re-design of the Razuna User Interface. The goal was to get rid of the many shades and table lines, in short to bring a “lighter user experience” to the Razuna feeling. But see for yourself.
In the upper image you see the current layout of a thumbnail grid. There is a bold heading with a gray background. Furthermore, there is a line around the whole grid. Since there is already a line around the tab and then having another line around the grid, it just “felt” a lot “gridded”.
The small re-design does away with those double lines and gray headings. You can see that it makes a big different when you have a long list of assets or edit your asset in the combined view.
We think, this eases on the eyes and focuses more on the assets.
Overall new features and improvements
Above we mentioned the most exciting features. Additionally, we have added full XMP support for PDF files (now we write to *ALL* XMP fields), for Administrators we added searching trough log files, developers have a new API call to retrieve information of a single asset, fixed some bugs when Razuna was hooked up to a Amazon S3 account and fixed the uploading tool for the Google Chrome browser.
Overall, there are around 25 request issues that we are fulfilling with Razuna 1.4.5. We are planing to release Razuna 1.4.5 in the coming days. Stay tuned for more updates on Razuna 1.4.5.
How to get Razuna
Razuna is available over at http://razuna.org. You have the option to use our preconfigured Razuna Virtual Server, download the dedicated Razuna Standalone Server or deploy to your own J2EE-Server with our Razuna WAR/EAR distribution.
Razuna is also available as a Hosted Solution over at http://razuna.com. For teams and organizations we also offer a dedicated Razuna Server offering.
