referencing external assets

[Jens-Thomas Hönow <jh...@canto.de>]

Hi all,

I'm currently evaluating Lenya and want to link it together with our Digital Asset Management system. So Lenya should do their great
CMS work and should use assets that are managed otherwise. Lenya should store a reference to the asset and when ever it needs the
asset than lenya should ask the external system to provide the asset.

Going thru the src classes (v 1.2) I didn't find anything that is somehow related to asset referencing and accessing.
Here my questions to you:

Is there something in lenya that can do it?

If yes, how can I change lenya to work with my DAM system?

If not, any other ideas how to achive that?


Cheers and Thanks Very much for the help,

Jens-Thomas Hönow
Canto, Germany



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Re: referencing external assets

[so...@gmail.com]

On 7/5/05, Jens-Thomas Hönow <jh...@canto.de> wrote:
> I'm currently evaluating Lenya and want to link it together with our Digital Asset Management system. So Lenya should do their great
> CMS work and should use assets that are managed otherwise. Lenya should store a reference to the asset and whenever it needs the
> asset than lenya should ask the external system to provide the asset.
> 
> Going thru the src classes (v 1.2) I didn't find anything that is somehow related to asset referencing and accessing.
> Is there something in lenya that can do it?
> If yes, how can I change lenya to work with my DAM system?
> If not, any other ideas how to achive that?

Yes.

If your DAM can produce text assets as XML, Lenya's Sitemaps (XMAPs)
import the data as needed using the http protocol, and XSL formats it
and integrates it into for your website.  This can be done without
touching the src classes.  An example is at:
http://lenya.apache.org/1_2_x/how-to/external_data.html

You could write code to convert the DAM's output to XML within Lenya,
but that conversion would be more useful as part of the DAM so you
could use the data with other XML-based systems.

Graphics and other non-text data "assets" are integrated by adding
using HTML tags in Lenya's XSL (or content) so browsers pull the
"asset" from your DAM server.  Again, no src changes.  You can proxy
so everything appears to come from one server.  For content, the
person editing would need to know the full URL for "Add Image".

solprovider

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Re: referencing external assets

[Michael Wechner <mi...@wyona.com>]

Jens-Thomas Hönow wrote:

>If yes, how can I change lenya to work with my DAM system?
>  
>

I think one would need to enhance the lookup dialogs which
shouldn't be very hard. It would be cool if you could use a "standardized"
XML to exachange the actual data, whereas I have added some stuff about 
that at

http://www.wyona.org/osr-101/osr-101.xhtml#editing-link-lookup

Michi

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Michael Wechner
Wyona      -   Open Source Content Management   -    Apache Lenya
http://www.wyona.com                      http://lenya.apache.org
michael.wechner@wyona.com                        michi@apache.org


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