FlexADMIN: Managing Application Settings

Purpose Application Management

In the Application Settings menu add global settings for your account/sub-accounts and add settings to customize FlexMAM.

When you select the Application Settings menu, , the Application Management screen opens and the accounts and sub-accounts in your environment are displayed in the Object List together with three tabs: Global Settings, FlexMAM, Ingest.
 

Select an account or sub-account to view its application settings in the Summary tabs.

If you have only one account on your environment, the Global Settings tab for the account is displayed.
In the Summary panel, you can view and edit some of the settings for the selected account in these tabs:

Global Settings

Set the global settings for the accounts/sub-accounts.

The following parameters can be set in the Global Settings tab: 

Default Date format: Select the European or US date format

Video Duration Format: Select microseconds or frames video duration format

FlexMAM

Add parameters to customize the behavior in FlexMAM and its interface

 The following parameters can be set in the FlexMAM tab:

• Default View Grid: Select a default grid type from table or tile
• Default Table Template/Default Marker Template: Select a table/marker template to be used as default instead of the system default template
• Default Clip Bin name: Customize the default clip bin name. If you do not add a name here, the default clip bin name is Clip Bin.
• Group:
• Default Saved Search: Set the saved search filter that is applied on the account by default
• Audio track ordering: Select whether you want the audio tracks/waveforms of your assets are ordered by Name or Stream Index
• Image asset preview: Set whether image asset preview uses the parent asset (JPEG?PNG?GIF up to 5MB) or the proxy asset. If you select proxy asset and no proxy is available, image preview is not displayed.
• Expanded Metadata Complex Fields: Select the default display style for complex metadata fields in FlexMAM. Select the checkbox for expanded or leave unchecked for collapsed.
• Show "Run..." option for assets: Select the Show "Run..." option for assets checkbox to display the Run option in FlexMAM
• Account Default Language: Select the language for the FlexMAM interface.

Ingest

This is the place to add sites for ingest via Dalet Ingest Portal. Sites carry the streams available for recording. Sites can be cloud-based, on-prem or VM. For those sites, you specify which users have permission to access those sites and see or modify content there.

Adding a Site

You may already have sites registered. To add a new one, click the +Add Site Icon .

A pop-up window will open.

Specify if it is a cloud or on-prem site. This has to match the type of deployment (InStream, Brio, VM).

• Deployment type (On-Prem or Cloud)

• Site name. 

• Site URL. In case a site URL already exists, an error message will appear and disable the “Add Site” button

• Authentication Token. When pasting the token, you get immediate feedback if the code has passed or not. Hovering over the field will give the option to clear the pasted token or to go to edit mode. f the token is correct, it should display "Authentication Successful" otherwise "Authentication Failed"

• Workspace selector

Click Add site when done. Of course you can cancel or close the window without saving by clicking the "x" icon in the top right corner.

If saved you will see it in the list and on-mouse you can copy the URL

To get an updated list of streams for the sites, click 

"Sync all Sites with Flex":

• Get sources/targets

• Changed sources/targets

• Deleted sources/targets

Geek info: Only one Ingest Portal pod perform the syncing. Will auto fail over to another pod.

Click a desired or new entry and you will see available streams, the access to which you mark by ticking the box, both for sources and targets. Additionally, you set the user rights per source as described in Users/Groups.

An actively selected site will show access to the fly-out menu, where you can edit the site parameters, remove a site, Sync this site with Flex, and configure the site (which will open the site itself).

Users/Groups

A selected site/source/target resources will show the add user icon, when a) clicked or b)last clicked and still highlighted while moving with the mouse pointer over it.

A pop-up will open. Select either the user or group icon and the desired names.

When adding a new name, determine the user rights to view (only) or modify. Click Share when done.

After adding user and groups and hitting the “Share” button, the number of users and groups (together, the group is counted like a user) will be indicated on the form.

The list indicated the number of users/permissions. Clicking that number will open the details, whence you can remove users and go back to the site listing.