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Cumulus-Direct URLs enable you to easily link Cumulus to your website for:
• Asset downloads, previews and thumbnails served on demand by Cumulus.
• Always-current website assets you never need to manually upload.
• Control over an unlimited number of website downloads from a single location—your Cumulus Server.
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1. Select one or more asset records. 1. Add a few new fields to your catalog(s) that • Thumbnail URL Enabled — When enabled, the
2. Choose a menu option in the Cumulus Native Cumulus requires to manage the URLs. asset record’s thumbnail may be displayed via
Client. 2. Install a Canto Web application. (Cumulus URL.
3. Choose options and restrictions you want for Sites or Cumulus Web Client) You only need to add these fields to the catalog,
the URLs. 3. Use the Cumulus Server Console to set up a meaning there’s no need to enable them for user
base URL for the Web links your Cumulus editing, enable them for indexing, or add them to
4. Copy the URLs Cumulus generates into the
Server will resolve. any view set. Cumulus uses these fields directly;
Web page of your choice. they’re not intended for user interaction.
4. Use a text editor to make some minor tweaks
to the Web application’s configuration file. Once the fields are added, the catalog needs no
further configuration. (Remember to add the
5. Create a user account that will interact with
Cumulus as the Cumulus-Direct URL “user.” fields to each catalog you plan to make available
via URL!)
An explanation of each step follows.
The next step is to make sure your preferred
Add required fields to your catalogs Canto Web application is ready.
Three fields must to be added to any catalog you
plan to use with Cumulus-Direct URLs. (Figure 2) Install your preferred Canto Web application
FIGURE 1: Cumulus-Direct URLs are configured by Cumulus uses these fields to determine which Cumulus-Direct URLs can be resolved (served)
Cumulus inside the Native Client. Each URL includes assets have been enabled for URL access. If a by Cumulus Sites or the Cumulus Web Client.
an explicit permission for thumbnail, preview and Both apps handle Cumulus-Direct URLs exactly
Cumulus-Direct URL tries to access an asset that
download (asset). The kind of URL Cumulus generates
is chosen at the bottom of this window, but it can be has not been enabled for access, the request is the same way, and neither offers performance or
changed outside of Cumulus, as you’ll see later. For denied. This ensures that only the assets you other advantages when serving files via
this reason, thumbnails, previews and/or downloads Cumulus-Direct URLs.
want accessible via URL are accessible.
must be specifically enabled using the options shown.
This prevents, for example, a URL intended to show a Each Web application’s administrator guide cov-
thumbnail from being modified by a savvy website user NOTE: Refer back to “Anatomy of a Cumulus-
to download the original asset. Direct URL” on page 1. The RecordID portion ers the setup information you need, so that won’t
of the URL tells Cumulus the asset being be covered here. (Download the guides you need
requested. If this asset has not been “URL via Cumulus Sites now, if needed.)
Depending on the kind of URL you create, and
enabled,” the request is denied. You can see NOTE: Before configuring your Canto Web
how you use it in your Web page, visitors will see
how manually editing this RecordID number application to work with Cumulus-Direct
images or links. You can even combine Cumulus-
could result in a security breach if a RecordID URLs, test it to make sure it’s working prop-
Direct URLs in a single link so that a thumbnail
not intended for access was used in the URL. erly.
becomes a link to download or preview a file.
Per-asset permissions resolve this issue.
Create your Cumulus-Direct URL user account
Prepping for Cumulus-Direct URLs. As with any new field, you’ll add these new fields and base URL
Any Cumulus 8.1.1 (or later) system that includes from the Catalog Settings > Record Fields section Next, launch the Cumulus Server Console. From
Cumulus Sites or the Cumulus Web Client is of the Cumulus Native Client’s Preferences win-
here, we’ll create a new user account to act as
capable of serving files via Cumulus-Direct URLs. dow.
the Cumulus-Direct URL “user,” and we’ll config-
(In this document, we’ll configure Cumulus Sites, The fields to add are: ure the base URL for your site.
but configuration for the Web Client is virtually
identical.) • Asset URL Enabled — When enabled, the Start out in the User Manager section of the
asset may be downloaded via URL. Server Console. Create a new user account and
There are five required steps to initially getting give it a name that makes sense to you. (The
Cumulus-Direct URLs working: • Preview URL Enabled — When enabled, the
asset may be previewed via URL.
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Getting the URLs you need It’s important to keep in mind that a Cumulus-
Direct URL just “hands” the Web browser a file.
Cumulus-Direct URLs are created from within
What the Web browser does with that file is up
the Cumulus Native Client. You can test the URLs
to the configuration and plug-ins of the browser.
from within Cumulus before you embed them
For example, a PDF download will display inside a
into Web pages, which is what we’ll do now.
Web browser that includes a PDF plug-in,
RESTARTING IS A GOOD THING! Become familar NOTE: Creating Cumulus-Direct URLs requires whereas it will come through as a file download
with how to restart Canto Web applications on in a browser that doesn’t support PDF display.
your operating system and save yourself lots of
the record permission called “modify item.”
time and frustration! (Figure 5) Make sure to connect with a Additionally, a JPEG will display inside virtually
Cumulus user account that includes this per-
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Mass-enabling assets for Cumulus-Direct URLs Any time the metadata template is applied,
Another way to enable assets for use with either by a user or by the Cumulus Scheduler, the Don’t forget the stats!
Cumulus-Direct URLs is via metadata templates. URLs are updated. You can also use templates to Cumulus-Direct URLs that serve previews
In fact, add a field formula into the mix, and remove the URL permissions, which enables you and downloads also provide statistics about
you’ve created a virtually automatic means for to use the Scheduler, for example, to disable URL those actions to Cumulus. This means you
generating the URLs you and your users need. access based on status or other field changes. can track how many times each asset is pre-
viewed or downloaded. (Thumbnail views
Here’s an overview of how this approach works: Extra functionality! One you have your
are not trackable.)
Cumulus-Direct URLs saved into catalog fields,
1. A metadata template sets the permissions for
you can perform XML metadata exports and Users familar with statistics tracking through
the asset records and adds the name of the
save URLs for all your files into a text file. Even services like Google Analytics will be happy
base URL to a metadata field.
better, any other per-asset metadata you need, to learn that tracking via Cumulus-Direct
2. Field formulas then use that base URL field such as caption, notes, etc. can be saved inside URL requires absolutely no extra code in
and the record’s ID number to assemble final the file too. your Web pages! So it’s easy to get a total of
URLs into metadata fields, one for each URL all previews or downloads, whether the
type. (Figure 10) requests came from your website, your part-
ners’ sites, or anywhere else.
For information on how to configure statis-
tics in a Cumulus catalog, see the Cumulus
Admin guide.
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