What's new in Cumulus 8.6.1
Apr 22, 2013
- High-impact additions and improvements:
- Web administration — administer: anytime, anywhere
- Versioning and automation
- Comprehensive development, continual progress — more than 50 improvements for your daily work
New in Cumulus 8.1 (Dec 4, 2009)
- Cumulus Cross Client - The Cumulus Cross Client is a standalone version of the Cumulus 8.1 Native Client that enables users to create new catalogs on their local computers, open catalogs served by Cumulus Servers, and update metadata and assets between the two. The Cumulus Cross Client is perfect for traveling professionals who need assets and metadata with them always, and also want to work with catalogs of their own.
- Email reports to anyone - Reports created by the Usage Reporting and Statistics add-on can now be automatically emailed to one or more recipients directly from Cumulus, so no one is ever kept waiting.
- New Reporting Options - New report types include assets cataloged during a period, check-out “time spent” reports, asset inventories by format, and the ability to use search queries as the means for selecting report assets. Reports can now be saved to PDF format and automatically emailed.
- Asset compare - Select two assets and see a visual representation of their differences. This is a handy way to quickly determine where the areas of difference lie in images that otherwise seem very similar.
- Email “syslog” system messages - Messages previously available only by checking the event viewing consoles in the host operating system can now be emailed, as they occur, to the Cumulus admin. Levels of notification include information, warning and error.
New in Cumulus 7.6.1 (Feb 3, 2009)
- In all, more than 130 additions, changes and fixes were logged for the update, which Canto recommends for all Cumulus customers.
- Most notable among the product's new capabilities is the ability for Cumulus to send automated email notifications when category assignments are made or changed.
- This enables organizations who use Cumulus categories for project management (in addition to digital asset management) to keep selected employees up to date as assets move through their development pipelines.
- Enhanced metadata support is now available for Microsoft Visio.
- When Visio files are cataloged, their entire text contents can be extracted and saved as searchable metadata by Cumulus.
- InDesign CS4 is now supported by the powerful Cumulus InDesign plug-in, which ships with all Cumulus servers.
- Also newly supported is the Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM), a specification of the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative made available by the Office of the United States Secretary of Defense.
New in Cumulus 7.5.3 (Jun 3, 2008)
- When changing from the simple Find window to the advanced, an advanced query can be saved even if the query in the simple find window was not correct.
- If the "Use Predefined Size� option is activated in the User Settings, the Preview View now displays all previews in the defined size.
- Now cataloging a resulting asset with an asset action doesn't delete a record from the collection anymore.
- The Pixel Image Converter now always delivers JPEG images based on a standard quality.
- The measurement unit defined in the User Settings is now also used for the fields of type Length. If the unit is Pixel, this measurement unit is only used for the fields "Image Width" and "Image Height".
- Case sensitivity for names of sets, templates etc. works properly now
- Backing up a catalog while users are adding data no longer lets the Cumulus Server quit unexpectedly.
- When creating a new empty copy of a journaling catalog the journaling is now enabled the new created catalog as well.
- The Slide Show in custom size works correctly again.
- Importer handles quotation marks (single and double) properly now.
- If the record field Categories is not user editable, records cannot be assigned to categories (not via menu and not via drag & drop).
- Problems when exporting records with multiple value string list fields are solved. Now a new export file format is created If the catalog contains multiple value string list fields. This file format can only be imported by Cumulus Clients 7.5.3.
- Label and ratings can no longer been assigned to records if the corresponding records fields are not user editable.
- XMP Metadata Support now recognizes xmp metadata files correctly.
- Field linking of the Categories field now can interpret the linking to different master categories. Now categories of the same name are created in different master categories and the records are assigned accordingly.
- Checking duplicates now works correctly even when cataloging to a Central Asset Location on a file system. The duplicate check requires the fields Original Asset Name, Original Asset Identifier and Original Asset Reference in catalog.
- Even with a dark background color highlighting records or categories is visible now. Cumulus Server under heavy load no longer unexpectedly quits when starting a backup.
- Scheduler tasks that include updating records are performed without exceptions now.
- Capturing values from the "IPTC Date Created" while cataloging now also works correctly with
- When capturing names of Embedded Font Subsets, Cumulus will now ignore an �xxxxxx � prefix of the names.
- The CJC function �Record.update()� no longer throws an exception.
- In the client.xml the maximum value for the Cumulus Tool time-out can now be set to 24 hours (up to 7.5.2 it was 1 hour). The default of 30 minutes was not changed.
- Emailing an asset by employing the standard mail application works properly now.
- The Calendar View no shows the month string in its title.
- When dragging & dropping records into a file system folder takes quite a long time, it no longer results in duplicated assets.
- When scrolling horizontally in Details view, the screen is updated without display problems now.
- The Scheduler install script now also runs on Mac OS X.
- A source folder category can now be moved in the category tree even if the corresponding volume is not mounted.
- On Intel Macs the values Mac OS File Type and Creator are no longer captured transposed.
- In Details View the rightmost column can be resized now.
- The XML Metadata Prefiller now interprets the top level correctly and no longer ends in an infinite loop.