This section covers the API invocations related to previews and thumbnails in Zoom. All JSON responses contain these standard fields: “success” : “true|false” “errorInfo” : “<Error msg if success is false, else this element will not be present>” “errorCode”: A key that exists in the Zoom message catalog Get Preview or Thumbnail Description:Get thumbnail or preview associated […]
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This tutorial walks you through a sample Perl script running on a hot folder on a Linux server. You can apply similar concepts to write scripts that run on a Windows Server. In fact, if you install Cygwin on the Windows Server, you could even run a Perl script directly on Windows, if you prefer
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This tutorial walks you through a sample Perl script running on a hot folder on a Linux server. You can apply similar concepts to write scripts that run on a Windows Server. In fact, if you install Cygwin on the Windows Server, you could even run a Perl script directly on Windows, if you prefer
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Target Audience: This article is meant for IT staff or software developers who need to create automation within the Zoom Workflow Framework. Please configure the auto task folder on the Zoom DAM server where auto task scripts will reside as described here. Zoom Workflow framework supports inserting an auto task in the activity graph for
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Customization of Notifications You can customize the email notifications sent at the time of various milestones. You can edit the content and/or modify the look-and-feel of the notifications. A file named “custom-messages.properties” and a set of templates are provided inside the “conf/mail-templates” folder in your deployment location. The properties file is organized into two sets
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Job and task definitions happen from within the web-based console using the workflow designer as we have seen so far. The Zoom application that comes in handy to actually run, track and monitor the job and tasks is the Task Manager. The job is started on creation if it is automatic, or can be started
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In Zoom parlance, a job is an entire workflow comprising of individual work components called tasks. A job is tied to a specific project and comprises of one or more tasks. Each task has one or more owners and has a specific set of assets to work upon. The set of assets could be assigned
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Zoom Workflow supports the addition of metadata to Jobs or Tasks. This metadata is useful for categorization, as well as, reporting/analytic of workflow performance based on them. How to Set-up Custom Workflow Metadata Open the Zoom Server’s Web Management Console (http://<server address>:<port e.g. 8443>). In the left panel open the tab Team Workflow > Workflow Metadata.
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Zoom workflow is a licensed component and you must have an appropriate license to be able to use it. Once you have a valid license loaded, you can check the web-based administration console to verify that the workflow management menu option is indeed enabled, as indicated in the screenshot below. From Zoom 5.5 onwards,
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At its core, Zoom hot folder ingest will take the assets brought into a specific folder on your machine and put them into a specific location on the Zoom server. But often times, this in itself will not meet your requirements. This post is about embellishing the hot folder set-up to make it serve your requirements fully. Here is a post that
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Zoom does not by default provide previews of Microsoft Office documents like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc. But with the custom format mechanism available in Zoom 5.2 or greater, there is a way to resolve this gap nicely. This post covers the steps needed to accomplish this exercise. Note: With version 8.0 or higher, we have made
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You can manage Zoom archive and restore operations to move content from online to offline storage (such as LTO, Cloud-based e.g. Amazon S3) as well check on the statuses of assets in the repository from the Web-based Administration Console. Make sure you have the appropriate license and have configured the archive location as shown in the
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In 5.2 or greater, Zoom custom formats can be used to control how previews can be rendered for assets stored in the repository. Zoom bundles preview generation tools that by default generate previews for a wide variety of file types. Over and above that, Zoom also provides the necessary hooks for the administrators to configure Zoom’s internal or any external preview-generation tool.
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Often times it is desirable that all Zoom clients operate with a specific set of global configuration parameters. For Zoom 5.1 or higher, you can control this by centrally configuring a list of properties and values at the Zoom Server, which will get propagated to all the Zoom Clients connecting to that server. This feature
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Zoom Database Server Backup It is always important when installing Zoom to have a backup plan for key files in the unfortunate event that a system failure occurs. Fortunately, backing up the Zoom system can be configuring any enterprise backup system. Zoom’s RevDB database allows the database to be backed up even while Zoom is
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Available Archive Modules Enable Archive Management License Archiving is an optional feature that is available only to deployments that hold an appropriate license. You can check your license information in Zoom’s web-based administration console. To check the license information, log on to your administration console in a browser at a URL like this: http://zoomserver:8443/ From
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For many organizations, LDAP Server is a key way to allow their users to log into multiple systems. Evolphin Zoom has native support to integrate with your LDAP Server, including popular Directory Services, like Microsoft Active Directory and Novell Directory Service. The following instructions provide you with information on how to fetch the desired subset
Zoom can integrate with your mail server so that a notification will be sent for events like: The server restarts (to admin) An asset is modified in a collection inside Web Client A user is sent a Lightbox (Zoom 6.0 and below) A user is sent a Workflow task Some notifications need to be configured
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The Preview Server enables preview generation for the Zoom setup. It acts as a cache between various Zoom Clients and the Zoom Server.Preview Server needs a running Zoom server to work with, without any Zoom server Preview Server won’t work and can’t serve the request. Prerequisites/Checklist Up and Running Zoom server. It may be on
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By default, the Zoom database is installed in the following locations: OS Path Linux [ZoomDir]/db Windows C:\Program Files (x86)\Evolphin\DAM\db directory There are a number of sub-folders that are contained within the db folder. The db has a few components: Folder Description filedata Stores the file data information for any of the assets stored in Zoom. redo The
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