Open Source, Digital Asset Management, Media Asset Management

The other day we outlined “Import & Export of metadata” that is coming in Razuna 1.4.8. Today, we would like to show you another new feature of Razuna 1.4.8; Adding assets from your custom path.

This new feature alone will delight many customers as it allows, among other options, to import your files from any path on your server to Razuna in one single operation. Especially, for large scale imports, there is huge benefit in it, because it will import your data to Razuna successively and include all subfolders and assets within, without any browser limitation because the assets reside already on the server.

Of course, the options for “linking to folders” and “adding assets from the server” are still available, but this new option will add assets to Razuna (instead of linking them) and will be able to include subfolders and re-create them within Razuna.

Especially for customers who migrate from another system this option will save them lots of headache. In other words, simply dump your current library to one folder and make this folder available on your Razuna server. Once completed, enter the path to your library in the new “Import from path” window and Razuna will automatically read your whole library, include all assets, all subfolders, read in the metadata (did you know that Razuna can read & write metadata since version 1.0?), create previews of your assets and make them available in Razuna and thus within the high powered search. To top it off, with the new ”Import & Export of metadata” option you can add your own metadata right away as well!

Our tests with over 500GB of image, video, audio and document assets have checked out successfully and we are extremely excited to include this feature in the upcoming Razuna 1.4.8 release.

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.

Today marks the day that we are proudly bringing Razuna 1.4.7 to the world, another upgrade to the already most used open source Digital Asset Management System. We are extremely exited about this release, as we made major improvements in this version and brings one new feature to Razuna. The one new feature in Razuna 1.4.7 is called “Labels”.

Labels

The concept of Labels in Razuna is very similar to, say to the way how Labels work in Gmail. Labels are dynamic and can be assigned to any asset. In other words, Labels do all the work folders do and give you an extra bonus: you can add more than one Label to a asset. Once you’ve created a label, you can view all the items with that label by clicking the label name.

Labels can be applied to assets, folders, collections and comments with a easy to use textfield. You simply enter the label you want to apply and the Label system offers you a choice from pre-defined labels or you can add a new one by entering it within the textfield alone.

Administrators will love the option to turn on or off, the option to allow users to add labels by entering them in the label field or to only select from existing ones. Administrators can also add or edit labels in a dedicated Administration interface.

Important to know

With Razuna 1.4.7 we have improved the open source digital asset management system even further. We have updated the application engine to the latest version (OpenBD 2.0), made design improvements for long file names and input fields, added compatibility to those who run Razuna on a secure server (SSL), updated all Javascript libraries and updated the Upload tool so it works again with the latest browsers (especially with HTML5 capable browsers), updated the FTP handling, changed how users log into Razuna (so it works better and faster on large libraries), made improvement to scale better with cloud platforms and many more changes.

Additionally, we fixes issues that came up after the 1.4.6 release. Some fixed were made to widgets, FTP connections, version upload works now for Windows better, a security fix for searches, made some fixes to the API (thank you all for reporting) and fixed and issue with custom fields.

All in all, we are satisfying over 50 issues with Razuna 1.4.7. We are happy that Razuna 1.4.7 meets our customers expectations. The full release notes for Razuna 1.4.7 are also available.

At this point, we like to thank the Razuna community and all of our customers who are providing valuable feedback and keep driving Razuna forward. Thank you all for making Razuna better with every release!

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.

The Razuna Hosted Platform has already been upgraded to the latest release. Our Razuna Cloud Server customers will be updated individually.