Cumulus Web Client

The Cumulus Web Client allows you to access your complete Cumulus catalog through the web.

Using standard Web browsers—with absolutely no plug-ins or extra software required—the Web Client enables users to upload new assets, download assets, edit asset metadata, create and edit categories, and more. Your entire asset collection is never more than a Web browser away when you need something, no matter where you are.

The Web Client is modeled after the Native Client, so users don't need additional training.

A few additional layers of security are present when Cumulus is accessed via the Web Client to ensure absolute catalog security. No digital asset management system offers better Internet security than Cumulus. Cumulus never makes original asset storage locations accessible over the Internet, so your assets are always safe.

Using the most modern Web technologies available, the Web Access Clients offer many of the same advanced user interface features the Cumulus Native Clients offer to Mac OS X and Windows, including:

• "Split views" to enable users to find files based on their relationships with other files.
• Drag & drop for category assignments and asset record sorting.
• Access to shared Category View Sets and Record View Sets to enable administrators to easily configure collection windows layouts.
• Asset check-out/in (with the full access client).
• Access to shared print templates to enable Web visitors to print record collections in predefined formats.
• Metadata assignments using metadata templates and direct record editing (with the full access client).
• Access to shared search queries to enable users to execute complex queries with drop-down menu ease.
• Access to shared Asset Actions, making it possible to preprocess the files downloaded by certain users (color conversion, downsampling, Zip archiving, etc.)

In addition, a Collection Basket enables Web users to gather the files they want in a single place for easy download. Users can easily copy a Web-direct URL to assets that can be emailed to others, and users can choose certain assets to "watch," after which Cumulus will automatically email them when the asset record has been modified.