OpenEdit Weekly Update

This week the OpenEdit team has added yet another way to help classify your digital assets.  We now have Related Products, whereby you can mark two assets as being related to eachother.

We have increased security for downloading original assets through OpenEdit.

There is also a new feature which allows you to override certain aspects of a property for a particular view.  Previously, all settings for a product property were defined in configuration/productproperties.xml.  If you included that property in more than one view (such as the advanced search and the product details page), the label and all other setttings for the property would be identical in each of those views. 

With this override capability, you can change the label of a field, whether or not it is editable or required, and several other settings for each of the different views.  This will allow a property to be editable in one place, but not editable somewhere else.  Currently this must be accomplished by editing the view's XML by hand, but we intend to add these features to the data editor very soon.  To do this, just specify the settings in the view xml file, like this:

<property id="name" editable="true" required="true" html="false">Enter the Asset's Name</property>

This would override the default label for the 'name' property (the one defined in productproperties.xml) with "Enter the Asset's Name".  The properties which are now overridable are: 'text' (the label), 'editable', 'required', 'listid', 'listchild', and 'html'.