What are common Media Library tools used for Kentico/Generic PHP sites?

Mini Drummer asked on March 11, 2020 05:55

Through a course of mergers and acquisitions the particular group of companies who I work for have built up a vast array of websites running either Kentico (or ASP websites that will be using Kentico) and Generically produced PHP websites.

There is no DAM (Digital Asset Management) and our holding company wants to keep all the identities apart, so you can imagine the blood bath that ensues around marketing endeavors.

What Media Library solutions are there which will work on both the Kentico CMS and for Hand-written PHP?

We use approval/versioning and some sites will soon be large enough to need CDNs (so some form of link referencing is needed).

There are three scenarios where other solutions have fallen down:

Page a uses image z, page b uses image z, image z is updated and page a/b instantly use the updated image z instead of going through the approval process.

Page a uses image z, page b uses image z, image z is updated, page a's update is approved and instantly page b has the updated image z instead of going through the approval process.

Page a uses image z, page b uses image z, image z is updated, page a's update is approved, page b's update is approved, suddenly we need to go back to the previous version of page a and the older version of image z is no longer there.

The added pain is that we need a central image library to hold things like model sign offs and past marketing campaign usage to avoid clashes between the brands.

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Brenden Kehren answered on March 11, 2020 14:46

There is a DAM connector for Kentico. I'm not sure what version you're working on but it might be something to look into.

Keep in mind, you need to have at least one piece of software to manage the CRUD activities for the assets in your DAM or CDN.

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Dmitry Bastron answered on March 11, 2020 14:48

Hi,

As per my knowledge, the only way to apply workflow to images is to use Page Attachments where you can attach a specific image to page. If you update the image on the page under workflow with approval - it goes to the edit step and will require re-approving the page for the image to appear. The disadvantage, you can't share attachments between pages, in your example, you would need to upload the same image z for both pages a and b. But you will be able to update/approve it with the corresponding pages then.

Kentico Media Libraries don't have workflows, and I'm afraid it can't be customized to use one. The option here might be to consider using third-party DAM fitting your requirements but you would need to integrate it with Kentico then, and it's quite big task to do for existing projects with existing content in place.

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