Asset management in
Drupal: the Asset module

State of Drupal 2007
 Survey running for 30+ days
 More than 1000 responses collected
 Problem areas:
− Determining what modules to use
− Difficult to add media files

Determining the module(s)
 So many different options:
− module creates a new content type (image)
− module adds a field to a content type (upload)
− module adss a cck field (filefield)
 Use one or more modules:
− One module per media type (audio, image, embed)
− One generic module (upload, filefield)

Difficult to add media files
 End-users
− Display assets as unified as possible
− Display assets as user-friendly as possible
 Editors
− Import files on the server
− Manage files already entered before
− WYSIWYG
− Create galleries
 Developers

What is the asset module?
The asset module provides
an intuitive method of
managing any type of file.

What is the asset module?
 Integrates with
− CCK
− Views
− Panels
− TinyMCE
− imagecache
− lightbox
− Jeroen Wijering's FLV Player
− 1 Pixel Out audio player

What is the asset module?
 Asset module
− Asset bonus
− Asset embed
− Asset import
− Asset panels
− Asset youtube

Asset wizard
 Images

Asset wizard
 Audio

Asset wizard
 FLV

Plug and play
 Just the asset module

Plug and play
 Asset module + TinyMCE

Plug and play
 Asset module + CCK

Make yourself comfortable
 Asset bonus configuration

Make yourself comfortable
 Asset bonus configuration: 1pixelout

Asset galleries
 Galleries using Views

Asset galleries
 Galleries using Panels

Asset 2.0
 Drupal 6
 Better GUI
 Pop-up be gone!
 New types and formatters
− PDF
− Google docs
− presentations
− ...

Asset 2.0

Thank you
Presentation by
Wim Mostrey
wim@mostrey.be
http://mostrey.be