Note 1: Access control applies only to individual files. Now 24 files will be visible only to the members of the Access control group “Design Team” and Daminion administrators. Display the files in the thumbnail area, select the files and drag and drop them to the tag “Design Team”. Now, specify which files should be seen only by the Design team group, in our case, these are the files from the category “Current design project”. In our case, the users are Anderson and Dean. In the window that opens, add users to the group. To do this right-click the tag “Design Team” and select “Edit Group”. Now, add users to the newly created group. In our case, it is “Design team”.Ī new tag will be added under the header “Access control”. In the window that opens, specify a name for the group. Right-click the Access Control header and select “Add Group”. Log into the catalog as administrator and click Catalog > Access Control.Ī new tag “Access control” will be displayed in the Tags panel.
How to set up Access Control to specific files for a group of users
If you add new files to the tag “Brand: Columbia”, these files will be visible to all users by default and you will need to manually set access permissions to them. Note 1: Access permissions apply only to individual files. Now only “Jose” and administrators will be able to see the files with the tag “Brand: Columbia”. In the window that opens, click the dropdown list (1) and select a user or group who should have access to the selected files (2). To do this, select all necessary files (1) in the thumbnail area (2), then from the Item Menu (3) select “Set Access Permissions” (4). In the below example, we need to provide an access to files with the Brand “Columbia” for a user “Jose”.
Log into the catalog as administrator and select the file(s) you wish to set access permissions on. Note: everyone from the “Administrator” group has access to all files in the catalog regardless of the access control settings set on those files. How to set up Access Control to specific files for one user Starting with Daminion 6.7, this option can be activated both in the desktop client and web client. Unlike user roles which maintain user access on the catalog level, access control allows you to specify set up access permissions on the file level. Please note: this feature is only available in Daminion Team Server versions!Īccess control allows you to restrict access to files for specific users and groups. This can be checked or configured via the Daminion Server Administration panel individually for each catalog. dmc catalog.įor shared catalogs: in the “preview” sub-folder of the folder that was selected to store the thumbnails from your server catalog. It works for Camera RAW, PSD, TIFF, JPEG2000, and BMP formats only.įor local catalogs: in the ~Thumbs\preview folder in the same folder as your local. Which media formats does this option work for?.For example, with 100 Megapixels limit your JPEG previews can have maximal sizes of 10000×10000, or 20000x5000pх, etc… You can limit the maximum size of JPEG images by turning on the “Limit maximal JPEG preview size” option. If the “Accelerated preview of large images” option is checked, Daminion will also store full-size JPEG previews of large images when rebuilding thumbnails. Switch to the “Accelerate Preview” option.
Launch the Daminion Server Administration panel on your server PC.Switch to the Accelerate Preview option.Go to the main menu: Edit > Preferences.Launch your Daminion Standalone version.When this feature is enabled, thumbnail generation and import speed will be slower, but the previewing of large images will be much faster and it will also reduce the CPU load of the Server PC. This option is turned on by default but can be switched off via program Preferences. This is especially noticeable when images are very large (more than 300 MB) or located on networks with lower bandwidth connections. Huge images in Camera RAW, TIFF, JPEG2000, PSD, and BMP formats are now cached as JPEG previews and can be viewed at the same speed as regular JPEG images.