What's New in Cumulus

Covers updates for: Cumulus 8.5.0 PRODUCT INFORMATION: What’s New in Cumulus 8.5 Multilingual metadata, easier administration, significant improvements to Cumulus Sites, and more. High-impact additions and improvements available in Cumulus 8.5 include: • World metadata support — More than 20 languages supported for localized metadata editing, searching. • Departmental user management — Offer each department control over its own users and permissions. • New trigger actions, and format-savvy asset actions — Smarter, more powerful workflow control. • Metadata editing and uploads in Cumulus Sites — Web users submissions, discussions and more. New features and capabilities available for Canto Cumulus 8.5 are listed below.* For additional details, download the ReadMe files for this release. Features Benefits Details World Metadata Metadata can be entered in multiple languages, making a single catalog accessible to the entire planet. Config- ure Cumulus so that users see only the languages they understand, and make several or all languages available to translators. Searching and sorting are now language-savvy so users see the results they expect. Multilingual Languages supported by Cumulus 8.5 Metadata Support out-of-the-box are English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungar- ian, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Greek, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Tradi- tional), Norwegian (Nynorsk) and Sami. Additional language support can be easily added, because Cumulus adheres to International Components for Unicode (ICU) stan- dards. FIGURE 1: Metadata fields for each supported language can be restricted to be shown only to appropriate users, or put on a single view to make localization easy (above). Searching and sorting are language-savvy too, so users can find what they’re looking for in their native languages. FIGURE 2: Even the cat- Provide category names that are egory tree can be local- localized, and appear in the correct ized, making browsing language for each user. Names that Multi-lingual Category Tree easier for all users. are not yet localized can be displayed with an indication of the language shown. Virtually all aspects of Cumulus can be localized, including: •Record and category field names, contents and tooltip descriptions Localization Options •Catalog and category names •Set and template names and info strings, asset action names and info strings, and more * Not all Cumulus 8.5 systems will include all features listed in this document. Contact your Canto representative for details. Canto, the Canto logo and Cumulus are registered trademarks of Canto. Other company and product names might be trademarks of their respective owners. PRO/mkDS-C8.5New/2011.06 Copyright ©2011 Canto GmbH. All rights reserved. www.canto.com Page 1 of 14 PRODUCT INFORMATION: What’s New in Cumulus 8.5 Features Benefits Details Easier System Management Deputize sub-admins to manage users and permissions for their own departments. Spare the Cumulus Departmental administrator from having to person- User Management ally manage systems for massive installations, without giving up system-wide control. FIGURE 3: Departments are easy to set up. Assigning a role to a department and assigning admin control over a department are both done through simple menu options. Use templates that can override some or all user permissions. This makes it easy to maintain consistency across accounts and to set permissions for User Setting Overrides Web-only users. What’s more, admin- istrators can remove access to user settings for users who don’t need or want the access, making everything easier for everyone. FIGURE 4: Based on user account templates you define, you can override user settings for any user or role at any time. When a user is added to an affected role, his or her settings update accordingly. If removed, the settings revert to the user’s choices. Canto, the Canto logo and Cumulus are registered trademarks of Canto. Other company and product names might be trademarks of their respective owners. PRO/mkDS-C8.5New/2011.06 Copyright ©2011 Canto GmbH. All rights reserved. www.canto.com Page 2 of 14 PRODUCT INFORMATION: What’s New in Cumulus 8.5 Features Benefits Details FIGURE 5: Folders can Cumulus can create folder structures be auto-created for for file-server based central asset CALs located on file locations (CAL), just like it does when systems, which makes using the Cumulus Vault. This enables management easier, and it offers a new Auto-folders for you to use a CAL that works properly way to store files cen- OS-based CALs with all applications. Folders can be trally, while keeping created based on dates, number of them available to pro- files, or unique identifiers, which duction applications ensures no problems arise from files like InDesign. that share the same name. Forget having to manage multiple view sets just to hide certain fields from users. Fields can now be made View Permission for Fields invisible to users or roles who shouldn’t see them. The setting is global, so once you set it, you can forget it. FIGURE 6: Restrict field visibility to ensure that sensitive metadata is never seen by those who shouldn’t see it. Or, just clean up the workspace for those who don’t need to see certain information. Users can control which metadata values get written back, and forced “side- Metadata Write-back car” use can ensure original assets FIGURE 7: (Above) Options are never touched, or just enable the Using metadata “side- write-back of metadata not supported cars” ensures metadata by the metadata standard in use. can be written exter- nally without affecting original files. (Left) A new menu option pres- ents a window to users that enables them to choose which fields to write back, and save the field choices as a set that can be recalled. Canto, the Canto logo and Cumulus are registered trademarks of Canto. Other company and product names might be trademarks of their respective owners. PRO/mkDS-C8.5New/2011.06 Copyright ©2011 Canto GmbH. All rights reserved. www.canto.com Page 3 of 14 PRODUCT INFORMATION: What’s New in Cumulus 8.5 Features Benefits Details Roles can be configured for read-only mode that ensures no user license is required when users assigned to the Force Read-only Sites role connect to Cumulus via Sites. Access via Client Groups This is perfect for those users who never need to edit metadata or catalog new files. FIGURE 8: By forcing read-only access for a role, you ensure that no user licenses are ever used by those who connect to Sites via the role. Print templates can be configured to process assets through asset actions before they’re added to the print out. Add watermarks, copyright info, force Asset Actions black & white output, and more. Use Applied to Print-Outs permissions to determine which users have access to which template so you can force marks on print-outs clients create, while those created by your staff remain watermark free. FIGURE 9: Assign an asset action to a print template to affect the images shown in the output. Here, an asset action has been selected that will print all images in grayscale. 1TB (terabyte) catalogs are now standard across all Cumulus systems, so you can: 256 times more room •Capture huge thumbnails that can be used for instant previews •Extract the entire contents of Word, FIGURE 10: Catalogs Large Catalogs for All PDF, Excel, PowerPoint and other for- used by Cumulus 8.5 mats into searchable metadata can store 256 times as much metadata as •Record audio annotations without those used by the concern of catalog “bloat” Entry and Workgroup •Capture all the asset usage statistics editions of earlier ver- information you need, because you sions of Cumulus. now have plenty of space Canto, the Canto logo and Cumulus are registered trademarks of Canto. Other company and product names might be trademarks of their respective owners. PRO/mkDS-C8.5New/2011.06 Copyright ©2011 Canto GmbH. All rights reserved. www.canto.com Page 4 of 14 PRODUCT INFORMATION: What’s New in Cumulus 8.5 Features Benefits Details User Productivity Enhancements Permitted users can now reorganize Custom Ordering the category tree in meaningful ways. of Categories No longer are categories displayed only in alphabetical order. FIGURE 11: Want your “What’s New” category at the top of the list? Just drag it into place. No more need to rely on clever naming techniques just to see the category tree you want. Entering date values is easier than ever, thanks to a new widget that Date Input Widget makes date input faster, less prone to error, and takes the guess work out of international date formats. FIGURE 12: Date input, just like you expect it—easy and error free. Multi-page previews are faster, thanks to mouse wheel control, and the dis- play mode itself has been improved to provide better feedback of which part of the document is seen. Users will appreciate now being able Preview Updates to launch as many preview windows as needed. What’s more, preview windows can be moved anywhere on the desktop, including onto a second monitor. Preview windows can update according to the catalog selection, or be locked to specific assets. FIGURE 13: Preview windows can be moved outside the main Cumulus window and put anywhere you want. Open as many as you need. Canto, the Canto logo and Cumulus are registered trademarks of Canto. Other company and product names might be trademarks of their respective owners. PRO/mkDS-C8.5New/2011.06 Copyright ©2011 Canto GmbH. All rights reserved. www.canto.com Page 5 of 14 PRODUCT INFORMATION: What’s New in Cumulus 8.5 Features Benefits Details Improve metadata quality by letting Cumulus verify email addresses, phone numbers, ISBN numbers and other values that have specific structures.

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