MM5.8 General settings

Settings

The cogwheel icon in the upper right corner of the home screen opens a menu with an array of settings in the system:

General settings

Language

The user can the system language in this section. For more methods of changing the language, see section "Introscreen".

Introscreen

The user can access the following settings in relation to the intro screen:

  • changing the background image, either using one of the assets already uploaded to the Media Manager 5 or a new file from desktop

  • changing language

  • editing title and description in the selected language.

Theming

In this section, the user can decide the global color scheme for the Media Manager. The following can configure the following:

  • theme color

  • the color of the text on the buttons

  • top bar background color

  • top bar text color.

Logo

In this section, the administrative user can configure separately the logo appearing in the header and on the login screen. The image for the logo can be either selected from the assets already uploaded to the Media Manager or uploaded from desktop.

Integrations

This section allows the user to set up, edit and delete new integration endpoints as well as gives the possibility to access the status of existing integrations.

YouTube

This section allows the user to set up, edit and delete an integration for a YouTube channel as well as gives the possibility to access the status of the integration.

Cognitive services

This section contains additional settings related to Cognitive Services, such as training of facial recognition.

Download approval

This section is related to a specific workflow concerning download approval. If such a workflow has been previously set up by the administrative user, in this section the user can enable and disable the functionality of download request, select the correct workflow that should control it as well as configure a variety of options related to it.

Download qualities

In this section it is possible to configure available download qualities for each user group.

SSO

This section allows the user to configure a single sign-on (SSO) authentication method.

Detailed information about configuring different types of SSO authentication can be found under Authentication.

Users

This section is related to a specific workflow concerning user approval. If such a workflow has been previously set up by the administrative user, in here it is possible to enable and disable this functionality.

Collections

This section contains additional configuration related to collections. In here, the administrative user can change which metadata fields are included with the shared asset by default. The default metadata field can then be modified by the user with each sharing operation.

Asset search

This section contains additional configuration related to asset search.

Firstly, the administrative user can select which filters are visible by default to users logging in for the first time or after they reset the filter configuration.

Default filters configuration determines what guest users can see (if guest users are enabled), For guest users, item security is still respected. Hence, guests of the system will only be able to see the fields which they have access to.

Secondly, it is possible to define the criteria for the freetext search.

Asset info

In this section, the administrative user can define which metadata fields are shown in the ‘Asset info’ box.

Asset list

In this section, the administrative user can define which columns are displayed by default in list view of the asset list.

Asset card

In this section, the administrative user can design which information should be included on an asset card available to all the users in Media Manager and the connectors. Some options can be configured separately for Media Manager and the connectors, and other options are shared for both locations.

Accelerated search status

In this section the administrative user can manually perform actions related to index mapping and re-indexing of documents.

Importer

In this section the administrative user can perform importer configuration.

Service configuration

In this section the administrative users can configure different services such as job status, timed transitions and status cleanup.

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