Through Metadata Presets we can create a number of metadata templates which can be applied to the mandatory metadata form at runtime. This feature is available from Zoom 5.5 onwards. Steps to create Metadata Presets Open mandatory metadata form using any action like check-in, smart-copy, upload. Enter the metadata values. Click on Save icon. To […]
Issue: LDAP Authentication function is working correctly but newly created zoom users in the LDAP group are not showing up in the Web Management Console under Manage Accounts after performing a “Pull users from LDAP.” Resolve: Ensure that the new users that are being added to LDAP have the email address attribute populated. After adding the
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From version 5.4 and onwards, Zoom has added support to access Zoom services over a different LAN or WAN. With this feature, it has become easier to access the Zoom server at another location OR in a completely different LAN with different DNS. People who are in a different network altogether or when multiple DNS
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From 5.2 and above, Zoom server can be configured to perform database checkpointing only at scheduled automatic server restarts. Previously, every time Zoom server started, checkpointing would be performed. This checkpointing would take stock of all data operations executed on the Zoom server since the previous checkpoint, compacting the database in the process. However, this was inconvenient
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Debugging preview generation is helpful in following scenarios: Preview of some file or specific format is not available. Preview generation by some media convertor/custom convertor is not working. Debugging some new media convertor. Generated preview is not correct. For E.g color mismatch, low quality etc… View Zoom Preview Server Log Zoom Preview server log can
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DIVArchive Workflow Overview Archive management module in Zoom allows the user to take assets on expensive & faster near-line storage and move them to a cheaper & slower secondary storage. The secondary storage could be a slow NAS/SAN, Direct Attached Disk or tape based system. Zoom allows flexibility in selecting the target storage for offline
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From Zoom 6.0 and above, Hot folder can be configured on a headless machine using Zoom Web Management Console. Check here for how-to instructions. From Zoom 5.3 and above, Zoom supports configuring Hot Folder instances on a remote machine. This is useful for example, when we have to setup Hot Folders to run on headless
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In Zoom 5.2, the configuration file for the Hot Folder has been modified. Very few modifications have been made to the xml tags and so it is very easy to upgrade the old xml file to the new one. The Hot Folder xml file named as hotFolderDB.xml contains all the hot folders and their respective settings which are
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Introduction Hot Folders can be configured on local computers so that files placed into that folder, they will periodically get imported into the corresponding folder in Zoom. Metadata can also be applied to assets during a hot folder import. Scripts can be configured to run prior to (pre-scripts) and after (post-scripts) the actual import operation, allowing users
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From 5.3 and above, Zoom offers the administrators the facility to permanently remove unwanted file-data and thereby salvage disk space. This purge functionality can be invoked from the Asset Browser as well as from the command line client. From Zoom 7.0 and above, any user assigned to a role with ADMINISTER permission will be able
In Zoom 5.0 and below, metadata fields visible in the Asset Browser were configured through property files on the server: metaspec/*.properties xmptype.properties xmpsupported.properties In Zoom 5.1 and greater, all configurations related to metadata have been merged into a single XML file: metadataspec.xml For users who are upgrading Zoom from 5.0 or below to 5.1 or
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Overview – Network & Port Forwarding You need to provide external users such as partners, clients or remote employees the ability to connect to Zoom services from outside the firewall or intranet. You also need ensure internal users continue to connect to Zoom from within the firewall without looping out and coming back through an
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Zoom Database & Preview Service on same Machine By default when you install the Zoom package on a server machine, the Zoom Database/DAM server and the Zoom Preview Server are co-located on the same machine. Based on how your default NIC (Network Interface Card) on the server is configured, the default network settings may work out of
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Zoom allows an organization to define custom metadata beyond the standard IPTC/EXIF fields that may be embedded inside an XMP section in a file. Please use the attached Excel form to brainstorm the custom metadata fields and grouping for your organization. Once you have filled in the form your metadata administrator or Evolphin Professional Services
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Zoom supports importing a keyword stock/dictionary to its repository. This dictionary can be viewed from the Asset Browser and keywords from it can be applied to the assets in Zoom. Any embedded (XMP) keywords found in the “IPTC: Keywords” property of an asset, if not already present in a categorized keyword, will be added automatically under the keyword panel’s “Uncategorized” bin
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Target Audience: Super-admins, Super-users, Project-Admins Below are a few sample folder schemas you can draw inspiration from for your initial Zoom folder/project vault structure set up at the beginning of the Zoom project vault. This article presents the best practices for using Zoom project vaultss/folder structure based on scenarios encountered by various Evolphin Customers. Please note
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The configuration of an existing Zoom server deployment with High-Availability and Disaster Recovery enabled can be changed with respect to the peers, their groups, weights and priorities. However, presently this can be done only through a manual process and hence must be done very carefully and sparingly. Changing server priority The peer and group priorities
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The Zoom High-Availability and Disaster Recovery (HADR) module automatically maintains all the configured Zoom server peers in sync, so that all of them serve the same data repository. However, at some times, such as when setting up a new peer, or after a peer’s DB location file system becomes permanently unavailable, a manual sync of the
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Zoom users can invoke archive or restore operations from various client interfaces like the command line, or from the Asset Browser. Check here for details about the configuration and management related to the archive module: Archive Management and Configuring Archive Module Archive From Asset Browser A user who is in a role with permission levels of EDIT_ALL will
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Metadata API Zoom metadata can be fetched by the Zoom Find command easily. Once you have the desired metadata for an asset, you can edit it using the SetMetadata API as described below. Request URL: Authentication Parameters: zm_username=<zoom-username> zm_cookie=<zoom-auth-cookie>, or, zm_password=<zoom-password> You should specify either one of the “zm_cookie” parameter or the “zm_password” parameter. If
