Hi Beejal:
Do you plan to make these files/products part of one or more product
catalogs?
If so, then you can use the Catalog Manager to add product information
about each file and keep track much of the file's attributes that way.
If you only have a few files, then learning how to use the Catalog
Manager (and perhaps customizing) to do this may not be worth your effort.
To answer your question specifically:
To associate a file(s) with (meta data) about that file you can do
several things - depending on how maintainable you want your application
to be. What I have done, and how I make content available to my web
visitors and customers, is use:
DataResource records to point to either the file location of a file
(the objectInfo field) or to an ElectronicText record if the content
is in the database (like XML/HTML).
DataResourceMetaData to hold information specific to my applications
such as the copyright date or the author's name. (I've created a few
unique metaDataPredicates to suite my needs.)
Content and ContentAssoc records to point to any data resources that
I want to make available on the website as a download or even as
content to articles or a blog. These records associate my
DataResources with website publishing actions.
I also wrote my own UI to support/manage all this in one place. That
is, I found it very cumbersome to go back and forth between the
Catalog Manager and the Content Manager etc. to perform the very
simple user operations necessary to support my environment.
There are other things that go on here, but at a high level, that is how
I do it. I'm sure others may do it differently, so anyone who'd like to
comment, please chime in.
Regards,
Ruth
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Beejal Kamdar wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to associate various files with a product to allow users
to upload artworks and download proofs which are posted by site
administrators.
It looks like I may be able to serve the purpose with DataResource,
Content and ProductContent. I would appreciate if someone has already
gone through similar requirement and guide me.
Thanks & Regards,
Beejal
