In this topic, we provide a list of new features and improvements in the CELUM Content browser application in each release.
The latest CELUM Content release provides a variety of new features that make your life easier:
As a power user with super-administrator permissions, you can forcibly unlock assets that were locked by another user from now on. See Lock assets for more information.
From now on, power users with super-administrator permissions can set up automatic deletion of modification history entries which are older than a specific time period. Therefore, you may not see the complete modification history of an asset or collection anymore.
This CELUM Content release is a testament to our commitment to providing a seamless, efficient user experience across the CELUM platform.
User Management via Cloud
If enabled, the User Management via Cloud allows you to log into CELUM Content with your CELUM Cloud user and switch seamlessly between Content and the other CELUM services for which your organisation has a subscription.
Simply log in using your CELUM Cloud Account credentials via the "CELUM Cloud login" function on the login page. Your organisation's administrator will take the necessary steps to enable this for you.
If the User Management via Cloud is enabled, the manual "Connect to Cloud account" function in the user settings menu is not available anymore, because manual connection is no longer necessary.
Improvements for the Similarity Search
The Similarity Search feature is now governed by a subscription in CELUM Cloud Account. To continue using it, please contact the CELUM Cloud organisation's manager to take care of the subscription process.
Fine-tune the results of the Similarity Search: With the new similarity threshold, you can set the minimum degree of similarity between the current asset and the similar assets which the Similarity Search returns. An easy-to-use slider enables you to adjust the percentage of similarity to find more (coarser matching) or fewer (closer matching) assets.
Quality-of-life improvements that make your work easier
Easier switching between assets: You can now effortlessly switch back and forth between assets in the current collection or search results on every tab of the detail view. Either use the left/right arrow keys on your keyboard or the previous-/next-buttons on the small preview.
Rename saved search- or filter-configurations: You can rename your saved search-configurations or filter-configurations in both the "Save filter settings" and "Load filter settings" dialog if the initially chosen name no longer reflects what the saved configuration represents. This feature is especially useful when the saved search in question is used in a Library.
Accelerate your content flows with lightbox
From now on, you can use Nova's lightbox to create ad-hoc collections where you can link, edit, download, share, and create relations between assets from arbitrary parent collections. You can find detailed instructions for the lightbox in Work with assets.
The lightbox is available in both Explore View and Advanced Search.
You can add assets either via drag-and-drop or via the context menu . Which actions are available for these assets inside the lightbox depends on your permissions in their respective parent collections.
The Nova lightbox is independent from the Advanced UI clipboard – no clipboard content from the Advanced UI will be transferred to the Nova lightbox, and vice versa.
Quality-of-life improvements that make your work easier
As a power-user with super-administrator permissions, you can now manually recreate asset previews. Now you do not need to switch to Advanced UI for this task anymore.
Search in collections - for collections: You can now use the "Search in collections" widget in the Advanced Search also to search for collections that have a particular parent collection.
Find assets by version information: Two new widgets "Version created by" and "Version date" enable you to find the latest changes for assets quickly and easily.
Compound objects have got a major functionality boost
To save time and effort, you can now automatically create placeholder assets for every missing element inside a compound object. Simply use the new "Create missing elements" action to create the placeholders, prepare them for your purposes, and upload a binary version once you're satisfied. You can find detailed instructions in the "Edit compound information" article.
For compound types, you now have an additional option to determine a specific asset validation field with a specific value for asset validity as another requirement for completeness of compound objects.
Additionally, we made several smaller usability improvements for compound objects as well:
Compound status details: You can now see more details about the compound status of both compound objects and assets inside compound objects. This enables you to identify missing content or other issues and ensure that all relevant product content is present and approved. See more information in View collection information for compound objects and View basic asset information for assets.
You can now manually re-evaluate the compound status, provided you have appropriate permissions.
The input fields in a compound object's "Compound information" tab now includes a permission check. If you do not have permission to view one of the required elements defined in the chosen compound type, then the "Required elements" and "Preview element" fields will be disabled and you will not be able to save the compound information.
If an asset is linked to a compound object, you can now also see the compound status of the object in the asset sidebar's "Locations" section.
Quality-of-life improvements that make your work easier
In the detail view's "Metadata" tab, you can now decide if you want to show all metadata fields (including empty ones) or only those metadata fields that have a value. The setting has an effect on all places where asset or collection metadata is shown in read mode. See more information in View all asset information and View collection information.
Whenever you switch between collection types, or between dashboard, explore view and advanced search, the application will remember how you left each area and return you to the same view again - selected collection, filters and all. Of course this also works if you log out and then back in again. Find more detailed information in "How CELUM Content works".
If you try to go to the Advanced UI while an upload is running, you will receive a warning message and can decide to stay in the Nova UI. Uploads in progress will be cancelled if you leave the Nova UI before they are finished.
Collections can now be shared via detail view. If sharing the direct link via detail view, then the recipient can open the collection in the same detail view tab as was open during sharing.
The input fields in a compound object's "Compound information" tab now includes a permission check. If you do not have permission to view one of the required elements defined in the chosen compound type, then the "Required elements" and "Preview element" fields will be disabled and you will not be able to save the compound information.
Compound status details: You can now see more details about the compound status of both compound objects and assets inside compound objects. This enables you to identify missing content or other issues and ensure that all relevant product content is present and approved. See more information in View collection information for compound objects and View basic asset information for assets.
Compound objects: With compound objects, you can perfectly model your product content in CELUM Content by defining multiple asset slots per product, including rules that define whether the object's content is valid and complete. This status is evaluated with every asset you link directly to the object, based on the values of a specific asset field. That way, you always know whether all relevant product content is present and approved - or which content is missing, so you can follow up.
Whether compound objects and all associated features are available for you depend on your system's configuration.
Compound objects have a compound type, which defines the rules for the objects. As a power user with super-administrator permissions, you can administer compound types in the Content administration.
The required elements in each compound object are determined by specific asset field values. The compound type governs the asset field and required values for it. On each specific compound object, you can set additional required elements. See Edit compound information for more information.
In the sidebar of a compound object, you can see the compound status, which shows you if the compound object is valid or invalid, complete or incomplete, and which elements are present or missing.
New dedicated filter widgets for compound types and compound status are available in the Advanced Search.
Placeholder assets: With placeholder assets, you can create assets without uploading a file as basis. These are useful if you have not yet decided what the binary payload of an asset should be, but want to already set its metadata. You can assign an asset type and edit metadata for placeholder assets, as well as upload a new version to give it a binary file.
New collection wizard: When creating a new collection, the creation process is no longer handled in a single dialog. Instead, a full-page collection wizard opens and guides you through the creation steps.
New collection detail view: Collections now have their own detail view, which you can open with the "Open detail view" action. It opens in a full-page overlay and contains all pertinent information for a collection. You can also edit the collection metadata in its detail view.
You can now replace the preview image for video assets with a new snapshot in the detail view.
Terminology changes: With this release, we streamlined our terminology. Therefore, some areas of the Nova UI are called differently now and are referred by different words:
"Upload manager" is now called "Upload wizard".
"Metadata manager" is now called "Metadata wizard".
Files in CELUM Work are now also called "assets".
The Nova UI is now ready for our new cloud services, "CELUM Libraries" and "CELUM Experience":
The system bar now contains buttons for these 2 services, so you can easily switch to them. All you need to do is connect your CELUM Content user to your CELUM Cloud Account.
Saved filters in the Advanced Search can now be used in CELUM Libraries to populate created Libraries with assets. If you delete a filter that is used by a Library, the Library will not get any new assets from CELUM Content anymore.
You can now compare 2 assets directly in the Explore View. Simply select them and use the action "Compare" to compare their previews and/or metadata. See Compare assets for more information. You have multiple actions available for each compared asset, like linking it to additional collections or creating a relation between the compared assets.
The image editor now allows cropping and applying a preset resolution or preset dimensions even when "Original Format" is chosen as the target format. The previous restrictions for "Original Format" were removed.
Default search logic changed to AND for full text search, but you can change between using AND logic and OR logic using the settings in Content administration. For more information, see Find content.
Be aware that this change does not directly affect saved filters. All filter combinations that were saved in release 22.9 or earlier were saved with OR logic and will apply OR logic on initial load. After a new search term is entered the saved filter will apply what ever search logic is set by the user in Content administration.
When moving a collection structure containing a child collection that is used as value of a particular referencing drop-down field into a different referencing drop-down field's root collection, the child collection will be automatically removed from the original drop-down field's value.
You can now edit the notification settings if you've turned on notifications for a collection. Additionally, you can choose a custom interval for your notifications, which can be set by a technical administrator.
You can now search for text directly inside a document by pressing Ctrl + F in a document asset's detail view ("Preview" tab).
You can now download an image asset that you have edited (rotated or flipped) in its original file format (e.g., PNG or JPG). See Edit image assets before download for more information.
For synchronizing your content with CELUM Drive, you can now decide whether you want to synchronize all content inside the selected collection's whole hierarchy, or only content inside its child collections. When picking the latter, only the child collections will be recreated as folders in your CELUM location.
It depends on your system's configuration whether 2 options are available. If not configured, only the normal "Start Drive sync" option is available and synchronizes all content in the selected collection and its child collections to one flat folder (without sub-folders) in your local file system.
We also made several small improvements to make your life easier:
You can now easily link assets to additional parent collections via drag & drop. Simply press the ALT key while you drag the asset(s) and the system will give you feedback on whether the action is possible.
When moving or adding assets, you can now open a context menu on collections. In the context menu, you can create or favorite a collection directly in the collection picker dialog. Additionally, you can directly choose your favorite collections in a dedicated section on top of the list.
The dates for creation and last modification of an asset now includes the exact time as well. The time is displayed in the list view of the Explore View and in the sidebar, among other places.
In the Advanced Search, you can now see the search relevance for assets in a dedicated "Relevance" column. You can sort by this column or hide it via the asset list configuration menu.
The default value for the language chooser in certain filter widgets (in Explore View and Advanced Search) can now be set in the Content administration.
If the Trash Bin function is activated, you can now restore deleted assets from the Trash Bin. See Delete or restore assets.
Our products have new names
To better communicate our branding, we have simplified the naming of the CELUM product suite. ContentHub is now called "CELUM Content", while WorkRooms is now called "CELUM Work". You use CELUM Work to collaborate with your team on in-progress content and to do online proofing, you use CELUM Content to manage and distribute your digital assets to where they're making the desired impact.
This change is also reflected in the online help.
The column configuration for the asset list can now be saved and loaded. This enables you to define different views depending on your current need.
The "Recent" widget on the dashboard is now invisible for consumer users (i.e. users who don't have the rights to create or edit assets or collections). This clears up the old behavior which left the widget constantly empty for consumers.
You can now view and inspect 3D assets (i.e. assets based on a 3D model asset) in an interactive 3D preview in the detail view.
The interactive 3D preview is only available if the "3D viewer" feature is enabled on your CELUM Content server. If it's not activated, no interactive preview is shown.
We improved the search and filter functionality in various ways:
For filter widgets based on referencing or drop-down fields, you can now select all available options in the widget via a "Select all" checkbox. This works in widgets on both the Explore View and Advanced Search.
In the full text search options, you can now select or deselect all languages for localized fields with a new checkbox. The previous limit of 5 languages was removed.
The "General" filter widget in Explore View has a new design and the list of media types in it was updated.
A new "Search in collections" widget in the Advanced Search enables you to search for assets that are linked to specific collections. This widget also has the "Select all" checkbox for up to 200 collections.
Several small improvements make your life easier:
Values of regular drop-down fields can now be cleared while editing metadata.
When showing the asset list in list view, you can now also resize columns for "date" and "checkbox" fields. This makes it possible to see the full column title for such columns.
You can now select most text in the application.
For predefined formats in the image editor, power users can now define a business label that gives further information about a format. You can see it by hovering over a format in the editor.
You can now download all asset properties and other data about an asset's binary file in the "File information" detail view tab. The data will be saved in a TXT file.