The PDF: FocusOPEN Styling and Branding: A Guide for Designers can be downloaded, free of charge, from the FocusOPEN Wiki.

Go to Admin > Manage Assets > View Asset List

Then click and drag on a range of assets:

You can de-select assets this way also and it works with the admin view thumbnails on or off:

Once you have selected a range of assets, you can use the batch menu to do something with them:

This feature can save busy administrators a lot of time by avoiding the need to individually click every single asset you want to select.  Like all FocusOPEN features, the click and drag selection works with older legacy browsers so all users should be able to access it.

• Custom HTML
• Image/Flash Tile
• Text Field
• Thumbnail
• Preview Plug-In (e.g. video player)
• Asset Thumbnail
• Asset Bitmap Group
• Featured Categories
• Get Remote URL Content
• Anchor/Hyperlink
• Text Area
• Asset ID
• Calendar

The custom home page feature makes extensive use of the FocusOPEN API to transport data from the server to the client-side.  Custom home pages are fully compatible with FocusOPEN’s multi-brand capabilities and you can mix and match unique templates across brands so each brand has their own individual home page.

Over the next few months we plan to introduce some more downloadable templates that can be used to expand the range of home page presentation options available.  To find out more, read the Wiki article: http://www.digitalassetmanager.com/wiki/custom-homepage-guide/

Read More about the FocusOPEN Scripting Engine & API.

• No attribution marks or references to FocusOPEN required
• The ability to integrate FocusOPEN with your own product without it acquiring an AGPL license also
• Active Directory integration
• InDesign preview generation
• Advanced Administrator set up guides (including AD)
• 1 month free Silver support
• Access to our Silver and Gold support plans
• 4 hours server deployment
• Full access to source code and no per-seat charges

If you are a marketing agency, systems integrator or an in-house IT department looking to implement .NET based Digital Asset Management but without the overhead or license constraints of a proprietary vendor then FocusOPEN is the ideal choice.

Read the Best DAM Offer page for more details.  The 50% discount period ends on 29th February 2012, so don’t delay if you want to take advantage of this offer.

• Batch metadata update facility allows fields from groups of assets to be modified in bulk after cataloguing.
• InDesign preview, thumbnail and bitmap group generation from InDesign files (1)
• Upload processing API for adding asset files from external applications
• Modified upload process to enable external applications to add files to designated folders
• Customisable home page templates and XML editor controls
• Checkbox metadata node visibility customisation options for each brand

(1) Commercial release only

The 3.4.2 edition is being advance released to Commercial users only and will be made available to open source users at a later time (excluding any Commercial-only features).  As with all other editions, the full source code is provided and there are no per-use restrictions.

If you are existing user, update instructions will be released shortly and those users with a Gold support agreement can request a FocusOPEN engineer to carry out the upgrade for you.  Silver support users can request ticketed assistance to make the upgrade.  Those with a FocusOPEN On Demand hosted DAM service plan will be upgraded to 3.4.2 upon request, upgrades to the new edition are not compulsory.