Batch Product Upload

Within the latest release of OpenEdit 6.0 is new upload capabilites for categories, products, items, and product/category relationships. You can now upload thousands of digital assets directly into OpenEdit.

A big part of mass product uploading is the handling of metadata.

Here is a bit of history about the evolution of OpenEdit's Digital Asset Management capabilities.The OpenEdit Archive was originally built as a web interface for Cumulus. Julie Riley, working as president of Carey Digital at the time, needed an improved web interface for Cumulus and the OpenEdit Media Interface for Cumulus was born. Since this project began, OpenEdit's Digital Asset Management capabilities have expanded and today OpenEdit 6.0 is starting to mature into a complete Digital Asset Management Solution. Originally Cumulus was a necessary component of OpenEdit's DAM capabilities because Cumulus provided a desktop application for the addition and management of large numbers of digital assets. With OpenEdit's new capabilities for mass uploads of assets and metadata, OpenEdit is now being installed as a stand alone Digital Asset Management solution with all the benefits that come with Enterprise Content Management.

Development continues at a furious pace and I'll get some highlight screen shots of some new features shortly.

In addition to development of the software, here are some other initiatives in progress:

• we're starting to put together short video presentations of the features included in OpenEdit 6.0
• a comprehensive features list on the home page of the demo for all OpenEdit 6.0 capabilities - we are publishing our work daily but the list is not yet complete
• an improved demo based on valuable community feedback