Summary
In this chapter, we introduced Pimcore's Digital Asset Management (DAM) feature. After defining the common characteristics of all DAM systems, we presented how these characteristics are implemented in Pimcore.
We then learned how to upload assets in Pimcore, selecting various formats of files from different kinds of sources, which could be offline or online. Then, we learned how to organize assets using folders and tags and how to relate assets to objects. In particular, we presented the different data components that can be used to attach assets to objects.
After that, we saw how to edit images through the integrated editor and how to enhance image content by defining metadata for them. In particular, we learned how to create predefined metadata definitions and how to define custom metadata for each asset.
We then focused on asset distribution, learning how to create thumbnail definitions for images and videos. We saw how to practically use thumbnails in development...
